Lois McMorris, also known as "Lady Mac", is a

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ist and

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from

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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 and lyricist. Bands that she has been a member of include 7th House, Gutsbucket & Funk, Poverty's Movement and The Persuaders. Lady Mac has toured the world and/or performed with a variety of popular music artists including the rapper

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, the jazz organist Jimmy Smith and

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called McMorris, "one of the finest all-around guitarist to ever come from Omaha". McMorris was inducted into the

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in 2005.(nd
Lois "Lady Mac" McMorris
Omaha Black Music Hall of Fame. Retrieved 18 July 2007. 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 the

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. McMorris has headlined the

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Other activities

McMorris has performed in the theatre and theatrical shows. Her performances include co-starring in ''An Evening with Four Ladies of Music'' with

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and ''Through Verse & Imagination'', directed by Sir Preston Webster at the

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. She has also appeared on television, internationally, nationally, regionally, and locally, with credits on '' China Beach'', '' Picket Fences'', ''

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'' and ''

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'', among other shows. An artist from infancy, McMorris is a painter and sculptor. She 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''.

Personal

McMorris is a survivor of

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.(2003
"6th Annual Rose Variety Arts Show: International Rainbow of Humanity."
Artists for a Better World International. Retrieved 18 July 2007.

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