It's New Orleans: Happy Hour

If someone hadn t hacked Cherice Harrison Nelson s phone and changed her calendar around she would have been on time and we wouldn t have gotten to meet Sar pronounced sare who happened to be hanging out and sat in for Cherice for the first 30 minutes of Happy Hour. Sar s family came over to the US from somewhere in Europe and shaved some syllables off of their last name to transform themselves from Hershkovitz to Hersh. Cherice s family were dragged here and Cherice has her great grandfather s Bill of Sale to prove it. Cherice is helping all New Orleanian African Americans remember where they came from with the building of her new museum, UNOLA. It s evolved from her previous undertaking, the Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame. Margie Perez s family came from Cuba. Margie fronts a Cuban band, Muevelo, an Afro Cuban band, an African band, and her own band and that s not even all she does in a week. Today she plays a song she wrote from breakup stories vounteered by friends on Facebook. The song is called He s Jus