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Sunny Jain and Red Baraat make bangers from bhangra

By Siddhartha Mitter

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  January 29, 2012

As an up-and-coming jazz drummer with numerous awards and commissions over the past decade, Sunny Jain has had plenty of chances to swing behind the drumset. But it’s in his role as a dholi, or dhol player, that Jain swings the hardest, leading Red Baraat, the unique and highly funky hybrid of a marching band that he founded four years ago in Brooklyn. The nine-piece outfit makes its Boston debut on Wednesday night at T.T. the Bear’s.

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