Brooklyn-based composer and drummer Sunny Jain is the Center for the Arts artist in residence for 2023-2024, developing his new music theater project “Love Force.”
Jain’s “Wild Wild East” headlined the Center for the Arts 50th Birthday Party in September 2023 in Crowell Concert Hall, the group’s Connecticut debut. “I’m going to be around a lot this year, so I hope to see many of you and meet many of you,” Jain said. Read Center for the Arts Celebrates 50th Birthday in The Wesleyan Connection.
Catch a preview of the latest music theater work by composer Sunny Jain, 2023–2024 CFA Artist in Residence. Love Force is a powerful ritual of gathering, using hybrid musical styles and building on the composer’s own experience of diaspora, that illuminates the power of song to create unity in the face of divisive systems of oppression.
Brooklyn-based composer, performer, drummer, dhol (double-headed drum) player, thought leader, and Visiting Scholar in the Center for the Arts Sunny Jain will give a talk, “Never a Dhol Moment: Punjabi rhythms into jazz into story telling,” as part of the Music Department Colloquium series.
The Center for the Arts’ 50th Birthday Party kicks off with a free, jubilant performance by Brooklyn-based composer and dhol (double-headed drum) player Sunny Jain's "Wild Wild East,” which has turned the myth of the American West on its head to reflect on his experience as a first-generation South Asian-American and global musician. This performance in Crowell Concert Hall at Wesleyan is the band's Connecticut debut. This event will move indoors due to the forecasted rain.
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