- Lois McMorris
Lois McMorris, also known as "Lady Mac", is a renowned
lead guitar ist andvocalist fromNorth Omaha ,Nebraska .Music
McMorris plays lead guitar, rhythm guitar, upright bass, electric bass, and keyboards and is a drum programmer. She is also a musician, arranger, vocalist, composer, chart writer & lyricist. Bands that she has been a member of include
7th House ,Gutsbucket & Funk ,Poverty's Movement , and The Persuaders. [(nd) [http://www.midwestmusicmasters.com/players3.aspx?Name=McMorris,%20Lois "Lois McMorris" (Lady Mac)] . Midwest Music Masters. Retrieved 7/18/07.]Lady Mac has toured the world and/or performed with a variety of popular music artists including rapper
Coolio , jazz organist Jimmy Smith andB.B. King .Preston Love called McMorris, "one of the finest all-around guitarist to ever come from Omaha" [(2001) "Omaha Star" newspaper, June 19.] . McMorris was inducted into theOmaha Black Music Hall of Fame in 2005. [(nd) [http://www.omahablackmusic.com/inductees/Mac_Lady.html Lois "Lady Mac" McMorris] . Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame. Retrieved 7/18/07.]Lady Mac has recorded on
Atma Records , releasing "LadyMac: One As a Performing Artist". McMorris alternates between performing as a headliner with her own group,LadyMac & the MacAttack , and appearing as a headliner in jazz, blues and old-school festivals across theUnited States . [(2006) [http://www.thejazzcat.net/blog/_archives/2006/8/5/2299481.html "Lady Jazz 2006 - Blues in the Summertime at the Ford Theater"] Jazz Cat. Retrieved 7/18/07.] McMorris has headlined theOmaha Jazz and Blues Festival .(2002) [http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=1499 "World Renowned Jazz & Blues Artists to Perform at the Omaha Jazz & Blues Festival,"] All About Jazz. Retrieved 7/17/07.]Other activities
McMorris has performed in the theatre and theatrical shows. Her performances include costarring in "An Evening with Four Ladies of Music" with
Linda Hopkins and "Through Verse & Imagination", directed by SirPreston Webster at theJazz Bakery . She has also appeared on television, internationally, nationally, regionally, and locally, with credits onChina Beach ,Picket Fences ,Entertainment Tonight , andEye On LA , among other shows. [(nd) [http://www.omahablackmusic.com/inductees/Mac_Lady.html Lois "Lady Mac" McMorris] . Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame. Retrieved 7/18/07.]An artist from infancy, McMorris is an award-winning painter & sculptor. McMorris is also a poet and teacher, and has written a variety of works including "Passages of the Transcendental Ant", an anthology of poetic works; a children's book called, "The Littlest, Biggest Christmas" and an art-comic magazine called "Zionaya of God". [(nd) [http://www.omahablackmusic.com/inductees/Mac_Lady.html Lois "Lady Mac" McMorris] . Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame. Retrieved 7/18/07.]
Personal
McMorris is a survivor of
breast cancer . [(2003) [http://www.artistsforabetterworld.org/index.php?display=article&ID=60&category=41 "6th Annual Rose Variety Arts Show: International Rainbow of Humanity."] Artists for a Better World International. Retrieved 7/18/07.]ee also
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