Hannah Kreiger-Benson plays keyboards, vocals, and trumpet for festivals, venues, parades, recordings, Pat O’Briens’ piano bar, Dusky Waters’ band and the Bra’s Band Brass Band. She music-directs the supergroup N.O.B.A.B.E., the roots-rock/funk Asylum Chorus, and the Van Ella Bordella, a musical-theater/burlesque show, for which she wrote the music. Hannah co-founded the Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans, advising the City, fighting for the rights of the cultural community and researching cultural economy/history. She was named 2023 Gambit’s 40 Under 40, is the Treasurer of the Camel Toe Lady Steppers dance group, and is a Voting Member of the Recording Academy. She is an adjunct professor at Loyola University and lectures regionally on musician life.
