It wasn’t too long ago that Cajun dance halls were at the center of social life in rural Louisiana, dotting the landscape between rice fields and providing a place where small town folk could gather to celebrate another week of hard work finished.
So it’s only fitting that 44-year-old Ben Miller, born and raised in Vermilion Parish, named his new karaoke club after one such bygone establishment. Singing Cher with 15 friends and dancing to Zydeco for hours have more in common than you might think.
“Just watching people really let go and have some serious connection with their people is really hard to find, I think, in a lot of places now,” Miller said. “And really necessary.”…