Drom is one of NYC’s leading global music night clubs. Its East Village basement door feels like the old days, but the club is modern and serves great snacks and dinners. The owners are Turkish from one of the crossroads of Europe and Asia. The club’s world music orientation reflects that.
Latin Music at Drom
World Cup Music Fest
World Cup Football with World Music After Parties
Thu, Jun 11 – Sun, Jun 21
$12+
Football is the one sport the whole world plays. DROM turns every match into a cultural event — Brazilian bands for Brazil, mariachi for Mexico, Balkan brass for Eastern Europe. The music starts when the whistle blows. It’s Extra Time at Drom.
Los Corners — Celebrating the Music of Charly García
New York Argentine tribute band to the godfather of Argentine rock
Sat, May 30, 2026 | 7:00pm
$29
Like many great artists, Charly García was extremely talented and totally insane. The founder and singer of Sui Generis famously jumped off a ninth-floor hotel roof into the swimming pool ~ and survived.
Garcia recorded Clics Modernos in New York in 1983. It delivered a level of production that was uncommon in Latin America at the time. The corner of Walker Street and Cortlandt Alley in Tribeca — where the album cover was shot — is now officially Charly García Corner. He came to New York to find a sound. Los Corners brings that sound back to the city that made it.
Latin rock started in Mexico with cover bands, but the Argentines were the first to write their own songs in Spanish. It was revolutionary. Kids across Latin America were thrilled to hear the music they loved, in a language they understood, telling stories they could relate to. No more lip-syncing lyrics they didn’t understand.
In the early years of Argentina’s military dictatorship, playing rock could get you beaten up, arrested, or worse. When the government banned Anglo music after the 1982 Malvinas War (Falkland Islands War to non-Argentines. Don’t be mad, just explaining. Son las Malvinas para mi.), the kids’ rock music was the only thing left on the radio and became hugely popular as Rock Nacional.
Argentine rockers eventually tired of the dictatorship and some moved out into the world. One of them, Gustavo Santaolalla, landed in Los Angeles where he helped shape what we now call Latin alternative. He is the New York Philharmonic Artist-in-Residence for 2026-2027, under the legendary Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel.
The point of all this is that Argentine Rock is foundational to Latin Rock and Latin Alternative. It’s worth looking back to one of the early masters of the form ~ Mr. Charly García. ¡Say no more!
Nick Corredor y Su Orquesta La Herencia
New York Salsa Dura
Young Colombian American bandleader inherits his family tradition
Thu, May 28 | 9:00pm
$21
Corredor is just starting out, but already sounds great. Though of Colombian descent, his sound is 1970s New York Salsa Dura, not Salsa Colombiana. He calls it bugalú, but its not. That’s a term Colombians use because they were exposed to salsa during the 1960s boogaloo era when Latin and R&B came together for a while in English. He sounds Cuban to me, maybe because his first video is a cha-cha-cha.
Go see him because the band will definitely be overflowing. And bring your dance shoes. ¡Eso!
FlamenKora
World Music meets Flamenco
NYC debut of Senegalese kora griot & Brazilian flamenco guitarist
Thu, May 28 | 6:30 PM
$29.36
The band is Ali Boulo Santo Cissoko on kora and vocals; Roberto Monteiro on flamenco guitar; and Volker Goetze on trumpet and flugelhorn.
The kora is the ancestor of the American banjo. Griots are West African ancestral storytellers. All cultures have some form of these oral historians. The flamenco duende is the pursuit of spiritual connection. The kora has a droning sound which is typical of spiritual traditions. That’s why flamenco and the kora go together so well. Both seek to activate the divinity that lives inside all of us.
Yordis Larrazábal
Cuban timba, salsa, and son
Sat, May 2 | 10:30pm doors, 11pm show
$25+
Bobby Rozario “Healer”
Indian Brazilian Portuguese rock guitarist
All-star multiple Grammy-winning band
Apr 9, Thu, 9pm doors, 9:30pm show
$25+
What an interesting mix, but rock with Latin and Indian influences works. He sounds like a Carlos Santana riffing to tabla drums. The Indian side is interesting because this is one of the communities whose power is growing in New York City.
Afro-Andean Funk
Afro-Peruvian Latin alternative
Apr 10, Fri, 6:30pm
$25+
Juan Murube, Raphael Brunn, Cristina Candela
Flamenco Jazz Jam
Sun, Apr 12, 6:30pm doors, 7pm jam
$25+
Christopher Sánchez: Latin Jazz Meets Opera
Dominican opera singer
Thu, Apr 30, | 7pm, doors 6:30pm
$65+
Patchai Reyes
The Gypsy Kings founding member sings French Catalan rumba flamenca, in Spanish, at the Drom night club in Manhattan’s East Village; on Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 9:30pm (9pm doors) and Wednesday, March 18 at 7pm doors. From $85.
Quitapenas and La Club Papaya
Two Los Angeles music and DJ collectives play tropical Afro-Latin alternative with a dance party after midnight; at Drom night club in Manhattan’s East Village; on Saturday, March 14, 2026 at 9:30pm doors. From $30 with $20 per person table minimum.
Quitapenas are American sons of Guatemalans and Mexicans play a blend of cumbia, champeta, semba, and psychedelic rock. Cumbia is Colombian. Champeta is also Colombian, but based on Feta Kuli’s Nigerian afrobeat. Semba is an Angolan predecessor to Brazilian samba and Angolan kizomba. Rock is African American. Mash it together and you get Tropical Latin Alternative.
They have a great sense of humor. You need to speak Spanish and be somewhat acclimated to the Latin world to get it, but Quitapenas is funny. The band’s name means get rid of the pain or “pain reliever” like aspirin. That’s the definition of Latin music and dance. We get together talk, drink, sing, dance, and you know; all to let go of the troubles of today and prepare for tomorrow.
La Club Papaya has a double-meaning too. In Mexico, Cuba, and Colombia, papaya is slang for female genitalia, but also something that is easy. The collective is women-led. Spanish has a natural poetry to it that is wonderful.
Flamenco Jazz Jam
This monthly event is at Drom night club in Manhattan’s East Village; on Sunday, March 15, 2026 at 7pm. From $25 with $20 table minimum per person.
La Excelencia
This New York Colombian salsa dura band loved by salsa dancers, celebrates its 20th Anniversary; at Drom night club in Manhattan’s East Village; on March 21, 2026 at 10:30pm. From $25 with $20 per person table minimum.
They are an interesting mix. The leader is Colombian, but the band plays New York salsa dura with a 1970s sound. It’s not Colombian salsa.
Alba Musik with Opener Niña Pastori Tribute
Bárbara Martínez & Albert Alabedra, and openers Niña Pastori Tribute play flamenco pop; at Drom night club in Manhattan’s East Village; on Tuesday, March 24, 2026 at 8:30pm doors. From $25 with $20 per person table minimum.
Bárbara Martínez is a New York Latina who is one of NYC’s busiest flamenco singers.
Drom Tickets
There are per person table minimums.
85 Avenue A (basement)
(at 6th St)
East Village, Manhattan