Dana Murray climbed behind a professional drum set for the first time in the summer of 1983. He was 12 years old, perched behind a kit that felt a “mile high” on stage at Omaha’s old Civic Auditorium.
Hours later with a professional at the helm, those drums sounded the beat as Marvin Gaye sang “Sexual Healing” and other hits.
Murray had no way of knowing it then, but that night launched a journey that took him around the world and eventually back home, where he leads North Omaha Music & Arts…