“When I was at the Parkland Boys and Girls Club I worked with the Imani Dance Company, which was based in African rhythms. I let them rehearse at the space, and then that’s how I stumbled into drumming. I couldn’t drum. I couldn’t drum to save my own…I don’t even have rhythm, as quiet as it’s kept. Something that was only supposed to be a summer program lasted 30 years.”
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Ed “Nardie” White Shares Portland Memories
“Portland was a closed community in a big metropolitan city. When you think about Louisville, you think about it as a big metropolitan city. But Portland was a definite city that was a community of its own. You had a pocket on Short Street. You had a pocket at St. Xavier. Owen Alley up here…that was a pocket. Those were all Black families. So we lived in clusters all around Portland. We lived in this 20-block radius. I lived between 21st street to 29th Street, that was my core area where I lived, and everybody knew everybody from generations.”