“Red Baraat Transcends Borders” 

Read interview with bandleader and dhol drummer, Sunny Jain, and his mission to break down cultural as well as musical boundaries.

Red Baraat’s New Album Channels a Muslim-Jewish Wedding, Stewart Copeland and Bhangra.

“The Best Party Band In Years.” Listen and watch Red Baraat on NPR: Tiny Desk Concerts, All Songs Considered, Mountain Stage, World Café, globalFEST 2011 + more.

“Red Baraat’s celebratory Festival of Colors”

“Red Baraat have a studied multi-ethnic cool reminiscent of other New York world fusion acts like Gogol Bordello and Yerba Buena.” South Asian Jazz – The Essential 10 Albums

“Percussionist and bandleader Sunny Jain elevates his pounding bhangra band Red Baraat to a more nuanced and artistically sophisticated space on Sound the People.”

“The funk, ska-punk, and other American forms that make their way into the music are layered intricately within the same threadwork as the ragas on which these songs are pulled from. Each piece is a gesture of cultural harmony, rendering not only genre irrelevant, but the geographic placement of those sounds.”

“A Big Band for the World.” 

The New York-based “bhangra funk dhol” band

“They're irresistible: serial party-starters.”

“There was a raucous finale. The last set belonged to Red Baraat, a Brooklyn brass band that looks to South Asia, pumping out Bollywood tunes and Sufi songs with a crackling beat (from the two headed dhol drum) and the muscle of horns blasting in unison, putting some New York bluster atop faraway roots.”

“Calling it a party doesn’t quite cut it. But when there’s no room to dance-or march, even that’s probably the best word.” 

“The open-air rendition of ‘Tunak Tun’ at the Lincoln Center is not just infectious, it’s visual heroin – just watching them make music is a shot of pure adrenalin.”