Meet Enya, Anna, Brenna, Alec, Drew, and Josh. Together they call themselves “Running With Scissors”, an Omaha Blues Society “Blues Ed” band.
Running With Scissors is actively booking spring and summer shows. Use the “Contact The Band” link to reach the band.
A heartfelt thanks to The Omaha Blues Society, the BluesEd administrators and volunteers, and to the professional musicians working with the program for giving the musicians instruction and guidance.
Running With Scissors
“Blues is America. It’s that combination, those tensions, the east-west tensions, the kind of tension of being a slave in the land of freedom, and the land of freedom itself, the Western mind, the concept of soloing across time, the call-and-response of democracy, direct call and response, the kind of optimism that is American in nature, is in the blues.”
“There are elements in it that are African and there are elements of the American take on Europeanism. It’s integrated, it’s like a person whose DNA is integrated. You start to try to figure it out — but you can’t. That’s how the blues is, that’s why it fits with everything, country-western, bluegrass — everybody’s playing the same music.”
- Wynton Marsalis, from an interview on CNN.