It's New Orleans: Happy Hour

New Orleans Bad Ass Bitch Experience is actually a band. Of 16 women. The band is the brainchild of Positive Vibration s Monique Pyle who was putting the NOBABEs on stage at Bayou Boogaloo on the opening Friday. But that idea got rained out by a vicious storm, so NOBABE is back in action for a make up gig at Preservation Hall. The Music Director of NOBABE is Hannah Kreiger Benson. Among her many personas Hannah is one of the permanent staff of piano players at world famous Pat O Brien s, playing copper covered dueling pianos 3 nights a week. She s also the Program Coordinator of MACCNO, the music and culture coalition of New Orleans, and was 2015 s City Business Woman of the Year. And if you re looking, you never know which dating app you might find her on. Sophie Lafayette first heard Happy Hour when she was living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Since then she has had a love affair with New Orleans which she has recently re consummated, moving back here from a year in Scotland. if all that sounds pretty exotic,