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February 24, 2013 // 7 PM

Red Baraat

It’s a sound so powerful it has left the band in its own utterly unique and enviable class. These days you are as likely to ﬁnd Red Baraat throwing down at an overheated and unannounced warehouse party in their Brooklyn neighborhood as you are at the Barbican or the Montreal Jazz Festival, or Lincoln Center. It’s a band unquestionably on the ascent playing some of the most prestigious festivals and theatres worldwide, and keeping their chops razor sharp in basements and sweaty sold out clubs across New York City. Leading an audience as diverse and joyful as the band itself, Red Baraat has subsumed a plateful of global inﬂuence, fused it, and is now exporting it Brooklyn-style to the world.

In just four short years, the pioneering Brooklyn dhol ‘n’ brass party juggernaut Red Baraat have made a name for themselves as one of the best live bands playing anywhere in the world. Led by dhol player Sunny Jain, the eight piece comprised of dhol (double-sided barrel shaped North Indian drum slung over one shoulder) drumset, percussion, sousaphone and five horns, melds the infectious North Indian rhythm Bhangra with a host of sounds, namely funk, go-go, latin, and jazz. Simply put, Sunny Jain and Red Baraat have created and deﬁned a sound entirely their own.

The group's most recent release, Bootleg Bhangra, is the band’s incredibly powerful live show captured at Brooklyn’s Southpaw on the band’s second anniversary. With songs pulled primarily from their debut album, Chaal Baby the group was mindful of the challenge to capture a rapturous live sound on record. Well, it happened on this night, and the resulting document places you squarely in that small Brooklyn club jammed from front to back with hip shaking beauties - hands raised to a ceiling dripping with condensation. The band is currently at work on their 2nd studio date, Shruggy Ji, which should see release in early 2012.

Most recently, the title track, Chaal Baby, is being used as the background music for the promo ads for the hit FX TV show, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. After the group’s performance at the 2011 globalFEST, Red Baraat was a top pick favorite and featured on PRI’s The World, NPR’s All Songs Considered, New York Times, The Village Voice and Mother Jones magazine. The group's debut CD, Chaal Baby (Sinj Records) was voted by several music critics as a top world and jazz release of 2010.

Since their inception in October 2008, Red Baraat has delivered blistering performances at globalFEST, Montreal Jazz Festival, Sunfest, Festival De Louisiane, Quebec City Summer Festival, Chicago World Music Festival, Lincoln Center, The Kennedy Center, Madison World Music Festival, New Orleans Jazz Festival, Pori Jazz Festival (Finland), Molde Jazz Festival (Norway) and Chicago Folks & Roots Festival, among many others.

Red Baraat appeared on John Schaefer's Soundcheck WNYC-FM 93.9, an NPR affiliate, in which they were picked as a top live radio performance of 2009. They also recorded the credit roll theme song for the movie, The Yes Men Fix the World and performed for the 2009 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (NYC) for Ports 1961 runway models. Red Baraat has been featured in National Geographic, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Relix and Songlines, among many others.

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Contests and PollsglobalFEST – Challenge Semi-FinalistBy globalFESTMay 15, 2013CommentShareEditor's NoteThis is one of 14 Semi-Finalists in the Business Unusual National Challenge. Vote once a day from May 15-31 to determine 5 Finalists, who will move on to the crowdsourcing phase in June. Read all…

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The Red "Delicious" Baraat is playing a FREE show at Apple Store, SoHo in NYC tomorrow. Reserve spot: http://www.apple.com/retail/soho/

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Did you hear that Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, matt pond PA and Red Baraat were added to XPOfest? Read the news here: http://thekey.xpn.org/2013/05/20/xponential-additions-edward-sharpe-and-the-magnetic-zeros-red-baraat-and-matt-pond-join-2013-lineup/

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Super excited to join Edward Sharpe at the XPN Festival in Philly this summer, even if they're expecting an 'afropop combo.' Well we've been called a lot of things, and regularly defy expectations, so... Here we come!

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This just in from the XPoNential Music Festival programming depot – three artists have been added to the 2013 lineup. Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, who entertained a jam-packed Wiggins Park with a lively set in 2010, will make their second XPoFest appearance. Also added are afropop combo Red...

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Red Baraat plays tonight at The Great Googa Mooga at 6:45! Take a moment to vote for gF and then go check them out! http://artsfwd.org/challenge-globalfest/