It's New Orleans: Happy Hour

We hear a lot about how New Orleans has changed since Katrina and how people from outside are changing the city, not always for the better. But if you want to know how it really is, from the inside, this conversation is it. NOLA musicians NOLA FAM Que Hefner aka Quentin Coleman and Mani aka Romani Cole talk about how the new residents who have moved into New Orleans neighborhoods where there are bars are shutting down the music and forcing musicians themselves included out of work. They used to support themselves as full time musicians, now there s not enough work and they re working day jobs. When you listen to how these guys have truly given everything to be musicians including for a time post Katrina being forced to live in Shreveport where they reportedly drink milk out of bags you ll get a first hand, bitter free, real NOLA feel of what it s like to be the victim of change. Rosy Wilson knows a thing or two about the pressures of the music biz. She started out at the age of 19 founding the seminal Rosy s