You know Sunny Jain as the founder and leader of the unruly, oversized, genre-mashing — and always infectiously fun — Brooklyn-based band Red Baraat.
Like Red Baraat, Wild Wild East draws from Jain’s identity as a first-generation South Asian American and as a global musician. Jain’s music with this project taps his family’s immigration story and his far-reaching musical roots. And it finds Jain recasting the immigrant — steeped in the courage to leave a familiar homeland for a new beginning — as the modern-day cowboy and cowgirl. Jain sources musical inspiration from the scores of Bollywood classics and Spaghetti Westerns, Indian folk traditions, jazz improvisation, and rollicking psychedelic and surf guitar styles.
Rooted in the contemporary American soundscape, Wild Wild East illustrates the love of new discovery that makes Jain a natural for our Next50 series.
It gives us a familiar songwriter and bandleader exercising his well-established genius in a new voice. As Jain tells us, borrowing the words of Walt Whitman: “I am large, I contain multitudes.”
Sunny Jain's Wild Wild East features
Sunny Jain, drums, dhol, compositions
Ben Parag, vocals
Alison Shearer, alto saxophone, flute
Shubh Saran, guitar
Almog Sharvit, bass
All personnel other than Sunny Jain subject to change.
Patrons are advised that this event will follow club performance convention. The venue will be configured for a standing audience. Some seats may be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Sunny Jain is part of the Fine Arts Center's Asian and Asian American Arts and Culture program, and Codemakers and Next50 series.