The motivation for what took place in a Northeast Portland parking lot last week goes back to a sharecropping community in rural Louisiana where Norman Sylvester’s grandmother passed on words of wisdom.
An award-winning guitarist, Sylvester is the leader of a popular blues band bearing his name that plays across the area. As he does each July for the past six years, Sylvester brought his group to play an outdoor concert for 75 residents at an assisted living center.
There would be no dancing, no using a break between songs to chat up someone with an offer to buy a drink. Thie people in this audience couldn’t move like they used to. Some slowly pushed walkers, some arrived in wheelchairs. They were there to listen and remember.
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