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Music and Movies with Martin Bandyke

Summer of Soul

Join Martin Bandyke, longtime radio host of Ann Arbor's 107one, to view and discuss the film Summer of Soul, featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda, Chris Rock, Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, and Mahalia Jackson.

Summer of Soul

This music documentary explores and reclaims the legacy of the six-week 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. It features unpublished footage of performances by Nina Simone, B.B. King, Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, and Gladys Knight & the Pips at Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park).

Martin Bandyke

Martin has an extensive background in music and radio, and a passion for film. In addition to working as the morning drive host and host of the show Fine Tuning at Ann Arbor 's 107one from 2006 to 2022, Martin is also a journalist whose material has been published in the Detroit Free Press and AnnArbor.com/MLive.  Martin's love of music began early: he attributes his passion to his father Ted Bandyke who brought brought home 45s and albums from the Detroit record store he worked at when martin was young. He played in bands himself, and worked at brick and mortar record stores in the 1970s and 1980s. In 1983, he began his radio host career at WDET-FM in Detroit, and stayed with the station until 2005. During his time as a radio host, Martin was able to delve into film and cinema while interviewing organizers of the Ann Arbor Film Festival. This is not Martin's first time hosting a film screening series: Martin Bandyke's Moving Pictures events have taken place at the Michigan Theater and the Ann Arbor District Library. 

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