America's only South Asian wedding band Red Baraat fires on all cylinders with its blistering new studio album, Bhangra Rangeela (Sinj Records) -- the band's first release since 2018 featuring nine ...

“We feel comfortable not knowing exactly where we’re headed,” says Red Baraat’s founder and bandleader Sunny Jain. “We’re very much about trying things out and taking risks. Sometimes it doesn’t work, ...

Percussionist Sunny Jain has already impressed as a musician who weaves disparate musical worlds into new universes. Chaal Baby, from his Red Baraat band, produces incredibly infectious celebratory ...

This Brooklyn-based octet blasts an immediately engaging combination of bhangra rhythms, New Orleans brass and funky hip-hop. The band is fronted by MC Sunny Jain, who also plays the trademark dhol, a ...

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In the midst of a tour that will take it everywhere from Philadelphia to Paris, Brooklyn-based Red Baraat fuses big brass sound and funk with Indian classical and marching band music. Featuring three ...

For most Americans, the sound of Indian music begins and ends with Ravi Shankar, who died just over two months ago. Mentor to George Harrison, father to Norah Jones, namesake of Ravi Coltrane and ...