Live-music venues worth the trip in Lafayette, Louisiana

The Heymann Performing Arts Center is Lafayette’s municipal auditorium on South College Road, and its own site calls it “Home to Broadway musicals, popular concerts, symphony, theatre and more” with a “2,168 seating capacity”.

The Acadiana Center for the Arts is a nonprofit arts center on West Vermilion Street in Lafayette that presents concerts through its Louisiana Crossroads Series, which its own site describes as “special one-night-only concerts in the James Devin Moncus Theater featuring artists with a musical connection that ties back to Louisiana”.

Adopted Dog Brewing is a craft brewery in Lafayette, and its own site says it has a “huge patio & outdoor space” and offers “live music multiple nights a week”.

Artmosphere is a bar on Johnston Street in Lafayette with “Live music, cold drinks, and late nights since 2003”, and its own site calls it “an inclusive venue dedicated to live shows from musicians to performers coming from far and near”.

The Blue Moon Saloon is a honky-tonk on East Convent Street in Lafayette, and its own site says it “opened in April of 2001 on the back porch of the Blue Moon Guesthouse”. Its own site calls the saloon a place “where world-class roots music, local culture, and travelers from everywhere collide” and “Part music venue, part community living room”.

Hideaway on Lee is a renovated 1905 house on Lee Avenue in Lafayette that its own site calls “a bar/restaurant/music venue”, with “a small music stage outside for quaint concerts or a larger stage indoors for dance bands.”

Rock’n’Bowl de Lafayette is a bowling alley and music hall on Jefferson Street in Lafayette, sister to the New Orleans original, and it books live bands listed under “LIVE MUSIC Lafayette” on its own site, which says “Anyone under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.”

Vermilionville is a living history museum in Lafayette whose Bal du Dimanche (Sunday Dance) runs “EVERY WEEK (may be pre-empted by private events)”, and its own site says “This live music series is held in Vermilionville’s Performance Center and rustic dancehall”.