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Brooklyn Bhangra ensemble Red Baraat are following 2017’s Bhangra Pirates with a new album, Sound The People, this Friday (6/29) via Rhyme & Reason (pre-order). The band’s own Sunny Jain co-produced ...

Battery Park City Authority's FREE NYC summer show series returns to Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park this summer from May 28 - ...

It was eight years ago that Sunny Jain first fell in love with the dhol. The dhol is a double-headed Indian drum that Jain wears strapped across his torso like a huge, resonant appendage. When he ...

“We heard New Haven knows how to get down!,” cried Sunny Jain from the top of the New Haven Green, where he and members of Brooklyn-based Red Baraat had taken the Arts & Ideas main stage just twenty ...

Red Baraat brings its ethnically diverse amalgam of North Indian dance music and second line rhythms back to New Orleans this weekend, culminating in several performances on Mardi Gras Day. This multi ...

On his wedding day, just before the ceremony began, Sunny Jain began a whole new relationship. Echoing an Indian tradition, he organized an instrumental baraat marching band to usher in the two sides ...

Red Baraat is wild — and loud. It's also a genre unto itself. The Brooklyn ensemble self-identifies as "dhol 'n' brass," a hybrid of Indian bhangra and New Orleans big-band music. The group has played ...

In partnership with Miller Outdoor Theatre, Asia Society Texas Center presents Red Baraat. Described by NPR as "the best party band in years," this Brooklyn-based group of six has created a unique and ...

Asia Society Texas Center's Encore Series brings you the very best of our in-person programs — in bite-size form. Revisit highlights from events you've enjoyed live, or sample exciting new experiences ...

I couldn’t wrap my head around all the Royal Wedding hoopla that took place last month. I mean, beyond my inherent wariness of celebrating a colonialist institution and the usual skepticism that comes ...