Ozomatli is a combination of many different sounds. The band,  from Los Angeles, starts out as a Latino band, but then adds in flavors of hip hop, salsa, cumbia, samba and reggae to create a truly original sound.

On Thursday night, Ozomatli lit up the stage and the river at Auditorium Shores for a crowd of more than 1,000 people. The seven-member band started the show with a fast beat that set the tone for the night and got everyone in the crowd on their feet.

Ozomatli kept up the energy throughout the night by playing songs that lured the audience to dance. Couples grabbed one another to salsa and samba to the different beats of each song while the rest of the audience shook their hips, tapped their feet and let the music move them.

As the show went on shouts of, “Ay, Ay, Ay” piped up from all over the audience.

Even as the night air chilled, Auditorium Shores stayed hot with Ozomatli’s mixture of saxophone, trumpet, guitar and three different kinds of drums.