New York native Justin Bennett has always had a soft spot for dive bars. Raised in and around them as a musician’s son in Brooklyn, he’s always found comfort in their gritty resilience and built-in diversity of patrons.
So when Artmosphere, once a mainstay of Lafayette’s live music scene, was up for sale, it seemed like kismet.
Bennett and his wife Marcela had passed through Lafayette many times when visiting her family in Lake Charles. Their destination had usually been New Orleans, but it was Lafayette that ended up sticking with them…