The Voices of East Harlem bringing their full freedom for-realness to Sing Sing Correctional Facility in 1972. This amazing clip is from the 1973 David Hoffman directed documentary, Sing Sing Thanksgiving, later retitled for DVD release as B.B. King and Joan Baez in concert at Sing Sing Prison, 1972. The Voices, were a twenty member ensemble that managed to play both The Isle of Wight Festival (1970) and the Soul to Soul concert in Ghana (1971). Right On Be Free is the title track off VEH's 1970 debut,.
The concert at Sing Sing took place a little more than one year after the Attica Prison Uprising of 1971.
Attica Prison Poem, Muhammad Ali,
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