The twofold rainbow that showed up Saturday evening as fans spilled into the Palace should have been an indication of things to come. 

In a brilliant, happy show at the Auburn Hills field, Bruno Mars conveyed with old fashioned ability to entertain and up-to-the-minute shimmer, playing to a sellout swarm on the most recent stop of his 24K Magic World Tour. 

The night's greatest news came late in the procedures, when Mars uncovered his beneficent pot of gold: a $1 million gift to help casualties of Flint's water emergency. (The cash, reserved for the Community Foundation of Greater Flint, will originate from Palace demonstrate continues, Mars' group said in a following media discharge.) 

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The dramatic declaration, which came amid an interval on "Simply the Way You Are," provoked an uproarious, protracted applause from a group as of now amped up on 80 minutes of high-vitality, horn-embellished funk-soul goodness. 

In age when the enormous pop visits appear secured a weapons contest of ever-fancier creation scene, Mars still depends to a great extent on the antiquated energy of hacks, engage and smoothly synchronized moves with his sponsorship Hooligans. Clad in a coordinating white Nike shoes and pinstriped shirts — each band part with possess shading, incorporating Mars in red — they cut a fresh sight, all with an energetic demeanor of out-with-the-young men fun. 

Not that Saturday didn't have its offer of great 2017 glimmer, on a phase equipped with all way of moving parts, transforming LED boards and awesome lighting that strobed, gushed and digitally embellished Mars and group in a huge number of tones. 

The disposition was brilliant and irresistible: In a set front-stacked with tunes from the twofold platinum "24K Magic," Mars summoned the soul of the '80s and mid '90s as he moved through the light "Artfulness" and "Calling All My Lovelies," whose liquidy, falsetto-bound stick took after Mars' Prince-esque guitar introduction. 

"Straight Up and Down" and "Versace on the Dance Floor" backed things off to give Mars a grandstand for the best end of his versatile tenor, a spot he came back to for 2012's delicate lit "When I Was Your Man." 

Detroit expat Phredley Brown, Mars' bandleader, had his own particular featuring parts all through, similar to the dazzling guitar work that set up "Wed You" and eventually turned into an extend of double lead riffs with Mars. The entire band got a careful exercise with "Runaway Baby" and a dynamic instrumental stick that evoked a '70s pop-funk soul. 

On Friday, Mars and the Hooligans had enjoyed that custom so adored by going to performers with a free day: an outing to Hitsville, USA. Motown may even now have been on the mind Saturday when they turned out an energetic reprise form of the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back," helping wrap up a night that affirmed by and by: When it comes to conjuring new amaze out of the deep rooted stuff, few exceed expectations at it nowadays more than Bruno Mars.