There was a time, in the years before and after the turn of the century, when drummer Kevin O’Day was everywhere.

He was touring with Anders Osborne. There were funk gigs at Café Brasil with Iris May Tango and the twistedly fun shows with Royal Fingerbowl at Dragon’s Den. He’d don the sequin space robes and cosmic-communication headgear of Michael Ray & the Cosmic Krewe at Tipitina’s.

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