New Year’s Eve Ball with Orgone

The California-based soul collective Orgone specializes in the kind of lean, funky R&B that’ll make you think it’s 1972 again, and they’re bringing their throwback jams to Sandpoint on New Year’s Eve. Fans of Sly and the Family Stone, Parliament and Curtis Mayfield will be in heaven. Currently touring as an octet, Orgone has been around (in one form or another) since the late ’90s, with a rotating group of L.A. session musicians filling needed roles. On top of their regular album releases, they’ve also served as a backing band for the likes of Cee Lo Green and Alicia Keys, and they once toured with the late, great Sharon Jones and her ace backing band the Dap-Kings. If that doesn’t tell you they’re the real deal, I don’t know what will.