A band in Rajasthan (photo from Boing Boing Flickr pool)

A photo shot yesterday by Ashish Gajera in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, and contributed to the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.

• [Ashish Gajera]

  Wow! Thank you, lovely bb, for featuring the photo.

• [max]

  Obama?

• [telaquapacky]

  “I landed us this gig. You go get the munchies.”

• [Anonymous]

  How cool, I took some photos of the same band last year in february. At that time thousands of wedding-band in fantastic costume where seen and heard everywhere, as young couples would mary at the days of a favorable celestial constellation.

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• [Anonymous]

  Always loved the very distinctive sound these bands make – they’re typically called to play at weddings in North India. Can’t find a real sample of their playing, but here’s a Bollywood movie song which is deliberately made to sound like them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvRYVorzgUk

• [Anonymous]

  the jaipur brass band cd is one of my favorite world titles! amazing!

• [Anonymous]

  I didn’t know the President could play the tuba. That’s awesome.

  Those outfits are pretty cool, as are the designs in that wall. At the risk of sounding like a western cliché, I love Indian “stuff.” As in, everything. I don’t know why. But some day, I’d like to see some of India.