Friday 12/16 8pm

Falsa - Sufi Music

Umer Piracha- Vocals; Roshni Samlal- Tabla; Siddharth Ashokkumar - Carnatic Violin; Tom Deis - Bass VI and Harmonium; Paul Arendt - Spanish Guitar and Kenny Warren - trumpet  

Friday 12/16 10pm

Cumbia River Band

Colombian drummer and clarinetists Martin Vejarano's plays cumbia classics 

Saturday 12/17 6pm

Olivier Conan: Daguerre

Original French music with Adele Fournet - keyboards; Andres Fonseca - drums; Dan Martinez - bass; Neil Ochoa - percussion; Felipe Wurst - guitar and Olivier Conan - vocals and cuatro.  

Saturday 12/17 8pm

Simon Hanes' Tsons Of Tsunamis

A "chill wave surf band" from the leader of Tredici Bacci 

Saturday 12/17 10pm
Pangari & The Socialites

Big band plays classic Jamaican ska and rocksteady Lloyd Knibb inspired by Don Drummond and the Skatalites. 

Saturday 12/17 Midnight
The Selector Series curated by

Dj Tres Dos

Our new weekly series, curated by our favorite selector. Expect the kind of groove music from around the world you might have never heard before. 100% vinyl.   

Sunday 12/18 4pm

Clube Do Choro

Every Sunday in our front room, a choro jam with a rotating cast of NY's finest Brazilian musicians 

Sunday 12/18 6pm

Juancho Herrera And Franco Pinna
Juancho Herrera (guitar and voice) and Franco Pinna (drums) draw from a repertoire of original compositions and Latin American classics.  

Sunday 12/18 8pm

Stephane Wrembel
The Gypsy Swing guitarist continues his almost 20 year weekly residency  

Sunday 12/18 10pm

Baklava Express

Oudist Josh Kaye's Middle Eastern inspired fusion

Tickets can be purchased in advance on Viewcy.com or at the door.
Our streaming system is down for the time being..

Monday 12/19 8pm
Olivier Conan: DAGUERRE

Original French music with Adele Fournet - keyboards; Andres Fonseca - drums; Dan Martinez - bass; Neil Ochoa - percussion; Felipe Wurst - guitar and Olivier Conan - vocals and cuatro.  

Monday 12/19 9pm
Tropical Vortex presents:

Guachinangos
& Resident DJs Sonido Chichadelico & Adrian Is Hungry
Cumbia and son jarocho from Veracruz 

Tuesday  12/20 7pm

Tamar Korn & Friends
Early jazz, Western swing, American roots music and the occasional Yiddish songs  

Tuesday  12/20 9pm

Slavic Soul Party
Brass bacchanalia, every Tuesday, forever.  

Wednesday 12/21 thanks 8pm
Buck And A Quarter Quartet

Vintage pop, western swing, traditional jazz, tangos and more 

Wednesday 12/21 10pm

Mamady Kouyate's Mandingo Ambassadors
The sound of Guinea's 70's funk from one of the masters of the Syliphone years 

Thursday 12/22 6pm

Sonelius Smith & Adam Kahan - The Eulipion Project
Sonelius Smith (piano); Adam Kahan (bass); Rodney Chapman (tenor sax); Dan Kurfurst (drums) 

Thursday 12/22 8pm

Shoko Nagai's Tokala
From the Silk Road to Japan 

Thursday 12/22 10pm

El Grupo Escobar
Pianist Jose Escobar plays Salsa classics from uptown, Cuba, and beyond 

Friday 12/24 6pm
Olivier Conan: Daguerre

Original French music with Adele Fournet - keyboards; Andres Fonseca - drums; Dan Martinez - bass; Neil Ochoa - percussion; Felipe Wurst - guitar and Olivier Conan - vocals and cuatro.  

Friday 12/23 8pm

CORDEONE: Portuguese accordion
Solo accordion from around the Lusaphone world. 

Friday 12/23 10pm

Oscar Noriega's Crooked Quartet

Oscar Noriega - alto sax; Marta Sanchez - piano; Christopher Tordini - bass;

Jason Nazary - drums 

Saturday 12/24 9pm

The Underground Spritual Game

Original French music with Adele Fournet - keyboards; Andres Fonseca - drums; Dan Martinez - bass; Neil Ochoa - percussion; Felipe Wurst - guitar and Olivier Conan - vocals and cuatro.  

Sunday 12/25  8pm

Mamady And Mamady

Guinean guitar duo with the guitarists from the Mandingo Ambassadors.

Tickets can be purchased in advance on Viewcy.com or at the door.
Our streaming system is down for the time being..

Coming Up

12/31 - New Year's Eve with Yotoco
Saturdays in January - Tim Berne
Saturdays in February - Anthony Coleman
01/13/23 Cumbia Vortex @ Elsewhere
02/04 - Stephen Ulrich & Big Lazy at the Sultan Room
01/13 Meridian Brothers at Globalfest and a few surprise shows

Trust us. This is one show you have to go to. It won't be at Barbes, but at the much larger Elsewhere (ten times larger...) Some of the talent will be an extension of our long running Tropical Vortex series. We cannot announce the headliners until Jan. 1st, but just trust us on it.

Two of our absolute favorite bands anywhere in the world - no kidding.

Plus some eminent NY friends.

Buy your tickets now.

We wouldn't be kidding you..