Red Baraat: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

Bob Boilen, March 13, 2017 Red Baraat s fusion of bhangra, gogo, hiphop and jazz is driven by frontman Sunny Jain s percolating playing of the dhol, a doublesided drum which forms the rhythmic lattice of support for their boisterous horns and guitar. And though Red Baraat graced the Tiny Desk five years ago, we had to have Jain s band back to celebrate Holi, the Hindu festival of color, of good over evil, and the coming of spring. Usually you d see the dusting of brightly colored perfumed powders stre