Rawayana in Lima: Caribbean groove in the era of the album "¿Dónde Es El After?"
Rawayana arrives in Lima on August 15, 2026, at a time when the Venezuelan band is deeply immersed in a new concert cycle. The performance at Costa 21, a venue by Costa Verde in the San Miguel district, is part of the international "¿Dónde es el after?" tour, which throughout 2026 connects Latin America, Europe and North America. This is important context for the evening: the audience is not coming only for a selection of familiar songs, but for a concert by a band that is currently building a new phase around a fresh album and an increasingly large international audience.
Rawayana does not remain confined to a single genre. Reggae is an important foundation, but alongside it come funk, alternative pop, Caribbean rhythms and psychedelic details. That is why the concert can appeal both to longtime fans and to audiences who discovered the band through "High", "Feriado" or the current album.
The Lima date also comes in the middle of an intense part of the tour. After Peru, the schedule takes Rawayana to Buenos Aires, Santiago, Quito and Guayaquil, and then on to European cities. Several dates on that tour have already been marked as sold out, so the interest in the band's current phase is not merely a local story.
It is worth securing tickets in good time.
From the Grammy to the album "¿Dónde Es El After?"
Rawayana's current position becomes much clearer when looking at the past few years. The album "¿Quién trae las cornetas?" earned the band the Grammy for Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album at the 2025 ceremony, while the song "Feriado" had previously also won a Latin Grammy in the Best Pop Song category. The ASTROPICAL project, created by bringing together Rawayana and Bomba Estéreo, subsequently received a 2026 Grammy nomination in the Best Latin Rock or Alternative Album category.
The concert in Lima therefore comes after a period in which the band expanded its audience far beyond the traditional reggae or alternative circle.
The new album "¿Dónde Es El After?" expands that space even further. The release contains 23 songs, and its collaborators include Manuel Turizo, ELENA ROSE, Carín León, Grupo Frontera, Servando & Florentino, Joaquina and Magic Juan. Titles such as "Inglés en Miami", "Naguará", "Cimarrón", "Como de sol a sol" and "Amor de contrabando" show just how open the album is to different Latin music scenes.
It is important, however, to distinguish the album from the specific concert in Lima. Collaborators from the album are not automatically guests on the tour, and the available announcements for this performance do not list any special guests or opening act. The same applies to production details: there is no reason to promise in advance effects or elements that have not been confirmed for this particular evening.
What previous performances say about the repertoire
For audiences who want to know what the current tour emphasizes, the record of the April 17, 2026 concert in Bogotá at the beginning of the "¿Dónde es el after?" tour is useful. That record is not an announcement of the set list for Lima, and the source itself warns that it may be incomplete or out of order, but it clearly shows the direction: the new album occupies a large part of the evening, while older songs remain important moments in the concert.
Among the songs recorded as performed in Bogotá were "Soltero", "Bienvenidos a la Tierra", "La noche que no había Uber", "Reyimiller", "30K", "Cimarrón", "Mimir", "Se presta", "Bendito", "Qué rico PR!", "Coronando", "Domingo familiar", "Como de sol a sol", "Amor de contrabando", "Playa Pantaleta", "Inglés en Miami" and "Se vienen cositas". Alongside them, older favorites such as "Véngase I", "Funky fiesta", "Feriado" and "High" also appeared.
For Lima, it is reasonable to expect a combination of several periods of the band's career, but no individual song should be considered guaranteed in advance.
- New material: the current tour relies heavily on "¿Dónde Es El After?".
- Older favorites: previous performances retained songs from earlier phases, including "High", "Funky fiesta" and "Feriado".
- Broader Latin influences: the new album connects the band's reggae and funk core with pop, regional Mexican sounds and urban Latin rhythms.
- No guarantee of guests: the artists who participate on the album have not been confirmed for the performance in Lima.
Such a combination suits an audience that wants familiar choruses but also wants to hear how the new album works outside the studio.
How Rawayana works live
Rawayana is not a performer whose concert is built around only one kind of energy. Some songs rest on a relaxed reggae pulse, others push the bass and guitar toward funk, while the newer material often moves into more contemporary Latin pop and urban rhythms. The transitions between these areas are precisely what is crucial to the feel of the concert: within just a few songs, the audience can move from swaying and singing together into a considerably more dance-oriented part of the evening.
The Bogotá record also shows how ambitious the current tour is in terms of the amount of material. At that concert, a large part of the program came from the new album, but the band also returned to songs that have been among its most frequently performed for years. This leaves longtime fans with recognizable moments, while newer audiences get songs connected to the current phase of the band's career.
For audiences who know the band only through a few singles, the concert demonstrates the breadth of the catalog. For longtime fans, the way older songs are incorporated alongside the new material is particularly interesting.
Ticket sales for this event are currently underway.
Costa 21 on Costa Verde: a venue made for open-air concerts
Costa 21 is located on Costa Verde in San Miguel, on Lima's coastal strip. It is a multipurpose open-air venue, and that openness shapes the concert experience more than the conventional architecture of an indoor hall would. There is no enclosed ceiling and no arena-like feeling in which sound naturally remains contained within the space; the concert depends on the installed sound system, stage configuration and production for the specific evening.
Costa 21 states that its area exceeds 20,000 square meters. The venue can accommodate up to 30,000 people in a standing-floor configuration and up to 20,000 in a seated configuration. These are the venue's maximum capacities, not confirmation of how many people will attend Rawayana or proof that the largest possible configuration will be used for this concert.
- Location: Costa Verde, San Miguel, Lima.
- Access landmark: the area by Bajada John Lennon.
- Venue type: multipurpose open-air concert venue.
- Area: more than 20,000 square meters.
- Maximum capacity according to venue information: up to 30,000 standing or 20,000 seated visitors, depending on the configuration.
- Parking: the venue states that it has parking for 1,500 vehicles.
For Rawayana, such a location makes sense. The band's music relies more naturally on movement and the openness of a large standing area than on a completely static concert format. Audience members who want to be closer to the stage should plan to arrive earlier, especially because the layout of entrances, sections and access routes can differ from one event to another.
Arrival, traffic and parking
Costa Verde is a long coastal road, and Costa 21 is located in San Miguel. Drivers should know that the venue has its own parking area, but 1,500 spaces is not a large number compared with the concert venue's maximum capacity. That is a good reason not to plan to arrive by car at the last minute.
Visitors using taxis or ride-hailing apps should check the drop-off point in advance and expect heavier traffic before and after the concert. At large gatherings, the final few kilometers are often more important than the total distance across the city, so it is useful to leave extra time.
Costa 21 also states that it cooperates with the city transport authority ATU on event days to make audience arrival and departure easier. This does not, however, mean that there is a special bus route for Rawayana or guaranteed transportation directly to the entrance. If you rely on public transport, check the current route on the day of the concert and plan the final part of the journey toward the coast in advance.
Lima as a key South American stop on the tour
Lima's position in the schedule shows how important August is for the South American section of the tour. After the performance in Peru, according to the published schedule, Rawayana is in Buenos Aires on August 20 and 21, then in Santiago on August 22, 23 and 24, in Quito on August 27 and in Guayaquil on August 29. By the beginning of September, the tour moves on to Europe.
The Lima evening is therefore not an isolated date, but part of a compact run of concerts in which the band carries the new album from city to city.
Several later dates on the tour schedule are marked as sold out, including individual nights in Buenos Aires, Santiago, Amsterdam and other cities. That is not proof that the same will happen in Lima, but it shows that in 2026 Rawayana is performing for an audience that is considerably broader than its circle of early fans.
Who will find this concert particularly interesting
Longtime fans have an opportunity here to hear how the band connects its older "trippy Caribbean" identity with its current, more productionally expansive releases. Songs such as "High", "Funky fiesta" and "Véngase I" represent the earlier core of the sound, while "Feriado" and material from "¿Quién trae las cornetas?" mark the phase that brought Rawayana major international recognition.
For newer audiences, the most interesting material may be from "¿Dónde Es El After?", especially if they know the band through "Inglés en Miami", "La noche que no había Uber", "Reyimiller" or collaborations with artists from different parts of the Latin music scene. The album is varied enough that the concert does not feel like a sequence of songs at the same tempo.
Reggae fans should expect a broader sound: funk, pop, psychedelia and Caribbean rhythms constantly enter the arrangements. For audiences coming from Latin pop, Rawayana offers a more pronounced band-driven groove.
Practical things worth checking before leaving
For an open-air concert, the most useful thing is to organize your arrival before congestion begins on the access roads. The time listed for the event and the actual start of the performance are not necessarily the same, so before leaving, check the information on your ticket and the organizer's latest announcement. Do not plan your arrival on the assumption that you will be able to enter at any time after the performance begins.
In its general rules, Costa 21 states that food and drinks cannot be brought into the venue and that pets are not allowed. Rules for an individual concert may include additional conditions, so before leaving it is useful to check permitted items, bag size, the entry procedure for your selected section and any restrictions for minors.
If you are coming from another part of Lima or arriving in the city on the same day, leave enough time for traffic and finding the entrance. An agreed meeting point after leaving the venue can make it easier for a group to reunite when the audience begins to disperse.
For an open-air concert, it is also useful to check the weather conditions immediately before leaving and choose clothing that can be adapted to an evening by the coast.
It is worth securing tickets in good time and then planning your journey to Costa 21 just as carefully.
Sources:
- Rawayana - "¿Dónde es el after?" tour schedule and confirmation of the performance in Lima and the following dates in South America
- Costa 21 - location in San Miguel, venue area, maximum capacity, parking and general entry rules
- GRAMMY.com - Grammy award for "¿Quién trae las cornetas?" and nomination of the ASTROPICAL project
- Rolling Stone en Español - band members, Rawayana's development and the context of the current album
- LOS40 - "¿Dónde Es El After?", number of songs, collaborators and the international context of the tour
- Setlist.fm - record of the Bogotá concert on the "¿Dónde es el after?" tour, used only as an example of previous repertoire, not as an announcement of the Lima set list
- Conciertos Perú - confirmation of Rawayana's return to Lima and the Costa 21 location