Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East at Groton Hill

Drummer and composer Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East will be live at the Groton Hill Music Center on Saturday, February 21 at 8:00pm. 

The career of Sunny Jain is a celebration of cultural diaspora: deep-rooted tradition that ripples outward, changing – and being changed by – the cultures that it touches. He is a composer, drummer, dhol player and thought leader. Songlines (UK) called him “One of the leading figures in North America’s burgeoning Asian music scene. A global musical alchemist and cultural agent provocateur.”

Jain is most known for founding the pioneering band, Red Baraat, but it’s Sunny Jain’s Wild Wild East (Smithsonian Folkways Recordings) that is seeing him rise to new levels. The New Yorker said this of Jain: “The indefatigable drummer and dhol player Sunny Jain is an unrepentant maximalist-were he a visual artist, one imagines bright-hued paints splattered across his canvas, his floor, and perhaps his ceiling. Think of a genre, and it’s probably somewhere in his compositions, yet the musician’s hullabaloo stands on considered conceptual ground.”