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Sunny Jain :: plays dhol/drumset/percussion for Red Baraat
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Jainsounds :: Offering unique entertainment for South Asian weddings and events
Amy Touchette :: Photographer who took all these great portraits of us.
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Fashion Magazine :: Red Baraat performs at 2009 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Show for Ports 1961. - Sarah Casselman
Music Connection Magazine :: "...a raucous, blaring, clashing celebration of a multitude of cultures come together as one joyous explosion." - Henry Lewis
Vainstyle :: "They rhythm that filled the tent was infectious to say the least." - Bailey
India Journal :: Interview with Sunny Jain and the start of Red Baraat
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Photo Credit: Amy Touchette
Photo Credit: Amy Touchette
Chicago Reader :: "The band artfully hybridizes Indian bhangra and something akin to New Orleans second-line funk. Plus it's fun as hell." - Peter Margasak
Time Out Chicago :: "The funky Brooklynites raise a ruckus with scampering dhol drumming, honking tubas and battered bugles."
A.V. - Madison World Music Festival :: "...combines traditional Indian dhol drumming, frenzied improvisationl jazz, and boundless energey into bombastic bites of hip-shaking grooves."
The Philadelphia Inquirer :: "An irrestible "dhol 'n' brass" nine-piece from New York City. He [Sunny Jain] invented "dhol 'n' brass" - and this record proves that Red Baraat rules it.
Read interview with Sunny Jain and Sonny Singh on Sepia Mutiny >> Click here