THE R&B GROUP MORRIS DAY AND THE TIME PERFORMED ON THURSDAY, JUNE 19. (PHOTO BY CHIEF IKHANA-HAL-MAKINA)
The rapper Jadakiss took the Juneteenth stage in Pittsburgh’s Mellon Park on Sunday, June 22. He’s from the New York City area. He’s performed at a lot of venues over the decades. But when he saw the mass of humanity that was in front of him, he quipped to the crowd that it “looked like Woodstock.”
OK, it wasn’t exactly a half million people there, like the original Woodstock music festival in 1969. But the way the festival was set up—a stage in the middle of a baseball field, thousands of people in front of the stage, followed by thousands up on the Mellon Park hills near the basketball courts and parking lot……