Red Baraat is an eight-piece dhol and brass ensemble that hails from Brooklyn, New York. (The dhol is a large handheld drum; its South Asian origin lies in antiquity, and its sound is somewhere between the tight, pudgy sound of its cousin the tabla and the deeper, fatter, more forceful sound of the conga. With two heads, it is meant to be played on both top and bottom. The dhol is the dance drum in Punjabi music and is heard in virtually all of the music from Bollywood.) Red Baraat's sound is an amalgam of the sound of large South Asian wedding bands, pop, bhangra funk, big-band jazz, Balkan wedding music, and the sounds of New Orleans brass bands. Red Baraat was was founded by dhol playe... ... More