“The band artfully synthesizes Indian Bhangra and something akin to New Orleans second-line funk. Plus it’s fun as hell.”
=0D=0A=– CHICAGO READER They first rocked JazzFest in 2013 with a marvelously incendiary performance and we’ve finally got them back! Nobody throws a better party than Brooklyn’s Red Baraat, whose beat-heavy live shows are a deliriously high-energy hybrid of brass band music and Bhangra rock.
=0D=0A=Led by Sunny Jain, who plays the dhol, an East Indian marching drum, Red Baraat throws extreme dance events moreso than mere concerts – in fact, baraat refers to an Indian wedding procession, and there’s a celebratory energy to every performance. Comprising multiple horns and percussionists and the recent addition of astonishingly creative guitarist Jonathan Goldberger, Red Baraat offers a cutting-edge mix of world music and vernacular American idioms such as hip-hop and James Brown funk.
=0D=0A=From Bonnaroo to Peter Gabriel’s WOMAD Festival, these guys always bring down the house. Rohin Khemani percussion, Tomas Fujiwara drums, Mike Bomwell saxophone, Sonny Singh trumpet/vocals, MiWi La Lupa trumpet/vocals, Ernest Stuart trombone, John Altieri sousaphone/rap
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