The stage comes ablaze with color and light as Michael Ray & The Cosmic Krewe take their places amidst a bewildering array of instruments and pulsing neon sculptures of strange design.

Multiple percussion stations, electronic keyboards, a set of steel pans on their stand, a grand piano, a set of traps, and a front line of trumpet, alto saxophone and valve trombone come into play, entering the musical fray with yelps of glee and moans and smears of rapture.

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