Incidental Holiday Music in New York - Jazz & Swing at Drom NYC

We were so lucky to catch a break right before another NYC lock down and play a concert of “incidental music” in the legendary NYC venue, Drom NYC - located in East Village in New York. New York State pandemic regulation stated that live entertainment activities, including all ticketed events, are to be prohibited since New York went on PAUSE in mid-March to stop the spread of corona virus. The goal was to maintain low rate of the virus avoiding high-risk gatherings where people congregate, mingle, and create congestion at points of ingress and egress.

The Department of Health guidance specifically stated that currently, only incidental music performances are safe and permissible. Incidental music is non-ticketed, unadvertised performances that accompany and are incidental to a dining experience; i.e., patrons have come to dine, and the music provided is incidental to the dining experience and performers must be 12 foot separate from patrons (any other type of event - concerts, dance, comedy, etc. - were deemed not incidental and is therefore impermissible at this time for health and safety reasons) .

This is why we were thrilled to be invited to perform - safely and incidentally - to play a set of Holiday Music at such iconic NYC venue. We have performed at Drom many times, including our sold out performance there for New Years’ Eve several years ago - Drom is truly an iconic NYC institution!

The show featured our first call band, including Willerm Delisfort (piano and Nord organ), Curtis Nowosad (drums), Adi Meyerson (bass), Danny Jonokuchi, and Jonathan Beshay.

This was an evening to remember for Svetlana’s fans - and Drom NYC -patrons which projected a little bit of NYC normalcy in these difficult times.

We welcome private event inquiries for events from spaces that adhere to NYS Covid safety guidelines!