Soul Power, The Concert, The Movie… The T-Shirts

admin    T-Shirt News     Africa, R&B, Rumble In The Jungle, Soul Power, Zaire 74, history, music history, music t-shirts, music tees

Miss Wit Designs have recently brought our attention to their licensed creation of their Zaire ’74 concert tee, marking the release of a documentary that celebrates the legendary festival Zaire ’74, made entirely using the original 1974 footage.

The legendary concert was brought to fruition by musician/producer and life long friends Hugh Masekela and Stewart Levine (Grazing In The Grass, Don’t Go Lose it Baby), the music festival gained a great deal of notoriety at the time after the involvement of all-time number one boxing promoter Don King to combine the event with ‚ÄúThe Rumble in the Jungle,‚Äù the epic fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman.

Alongside Zaire ’74, the Soul Power t-shirt focuses on the experiences and performances of such musical luminaries as James Brown, BB King, Bill Withers, Celia Cruz, Miriam Makeba, The Spinners among a host of others. All artists involved inspired by the return to their African roots, as well as the enthusiasm of the Zairian audience, ensured that they gave the performances of their lives. Since then history has imbued the concert with an almost mythological status marking it as the most definitive Africa(n)-American musical event of the 20th Century.

For almost 35 years the footage has This footage has remained unused and unseen until the release of vaulted for the past 35 years, unused, unseen, until now. Soul Power will make debut its public theatrical release on Friday, July 10th, both in New York and LA after already winning the Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the Los Angeles Film Festival. Filmed by some of the most celebrated documentary cinematographers of all-time including Albert Maysles (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens), Paul Goldsmith (Rust Never Sleeps), Kevin Keating (Harlan County USA), and Roderick Young (Wattstax), Miss Wit aims to bring attention to the event through the production of these two exclusive tees. read more

T-Shirt Scammer

admin    T-Shirt Marketing     Africa, Nigeria, T-Shirt Marketing, con artist, fake orders, liar, spam, t-shirt scam, t-shirt scams, t-shirt spam, warning

If you receive an email written in BOLD CAPITALS from Nigeria without any proper contact details you should most likely throw it in the trash. Take a look at this latest example of the dodgier side of the t-shirt industry. As I’ve mentioned before in this recent post if you’re running an independent t-shirt store and you happen to find your inbox filled with the following kind of urgent requests for stock ignore it, it’s just the latest scam, to be filed in your never to be read again trash, along with all those offers of a percentage of millions of dollars from Nigeria and other regions that need you to place their incredible valuable cheque in your bank account (for a small fee) before their king, president, or oil tycoon is shot by rebel forces. read more

LightningFast.com – T-Shirts That Save Lives

admin    T-Shirt Reviews     Africa, Charities, Charity T-Shirts, charity, designer t-shirts, donations, ethical t-shirts, fair trade, good causes, organic t-shirts, poor, t-shirt

A mission statement from Steve Savides at LightningFast.com:-

“When you buy a T-shirt, what do you get? A bit of warmth? A bit of cool? How about real change? When you buy Lightning Fast clothing, you’re helping transform communities. That’s because we channel 50% of our profits into projects that are proven in helping children and families escape a cycle of poverty. At Lightning Fast, we’re about combining the love of cool with the love of change. It’s a virtuous circle. You get great design on organic, fairly traded clothes. And people from Romania to Swaziland to South Africa, UK, are given a hand to build sustainable lives.” read more