Praise for the Venue: 

"Drom is haven for world music in a neighborhood packed with rock clubs." - THE VILLAGE VOICE

"This afro-Mediterranean club/bar brings welcome international flair to an otherwise mundane Alphabet City strip." - NY MAGAZINE

"Among NYC venues, only Barbes ranks with these guys for diversity and consistent quality of the acts they book here." - LUCID CULTURE 

"A Venue Returns to Its Roots" - THE LOCAL EAST VILLAGE

"The Alphabet City club hosts a steady stream of musicians focusing on Mediterranean beats and Balkan tunes." - METROMIX

"Drom’s new home for the nomadic New Yorker" - NY PRESS

"After three months of creative silence, the East Village venue Drom reveals its badass makeover self to the world." - THE VILLAGER

Praise for the NY Gypsy Festival (held at Drom): 

"Year after year, the NY Gypsy Festival remains one of New York’s most consistently exciting concert series." - LUCID CULTURE BLOG

"It’s impossible to pick just one highlight of this excellent bill of Gypsy music, but the newsiest is Mahala Rai Banda, a Romanian group making its American debut." - THE NEW YORK TIMES

"New York Gypsy Festival celebrates music inspired by people on the move … already billed as the largest Gypsy music event of the year" - NJ STAR-LEDGER

"Last Friday, genre-bending electronic/Celtic/Bhangra/dub group Delhi 2 Dublin brought their high-energy, culture-blender show to Drom in New York City as part of the New York Gypsy Festival." - MTV IGGY

"NY Gypsy Festival returns for sixth season." - NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

"Leavening boisterous horns and drums with Euro-pop sass, Bucharest's Mahala Rai Banda headlines the sixth annual New York Gypsy Festival's afternoon-long cornerstone concert." - THE VILLAGE VOICE