VIDEO OF THE DAY: “SHRUGGY JI” BY RED BARAAT

If you missed them at SummerStage in Central Park on July 14 and the Clearwater Festival on June 16, you still have another chance to catch Brooklyn-based bhangra funk dhol ‘n’ brass party band Red Baraat on July 30, when they’ll headline a free Greene Music on the Main Stage show in Ft. Greene Park with Debo Band and DJ Duane Harriott. Touring behind Shruggy Ji (Sinj, January 2013), their follow-up to their 2012 full-length studio debut, Chaal Baby, and the 2011 Bootleg Bhangra Live, which was recorded live at Southpaw in Brooklyn, the band is led by Sunny Jain, who marches across the stage pounding on his two-headed dhol, backed by a horn section that includes Mike Bromwell on soprano sax, Sonny Singh on trumpet, MiWi La Lupa on bass trumpet, Ernest Stuart on trombone, and John Altieri on sousaphone. To get a taste of the group’s unique international mix of multiple genres, you can stream their albums for free on Bandcamp, including their latest, the remix collection Big Talk, which features such tracks as “Baraat to Nowhere” and “Fully Funtastique.” We saw Red Baraat in June 2012 at the Northside Festival in McCarren Park, and they were indeed just that, fully funtastique.