Joni Mitchell left music followers speechless when she made a shock look this weekend for her first public live performance in almost 20 years.
The legendary singer-songwriter joined fellow musician Brandi Carlile on the 2022 Newport People Pageant on Sunday for a 13-song, goosebump-inducing set that included tender renditions of “Large Yellow Taxi” and “A Case of You,” amongst different classics.
To the delight of the viewers and different musical visitors together with Wynonna Judd, Mitchell additionally picked up an electrical guitar for “Simply Like This Prepare,” a lower from her smash 1974 album, “Court docket and Spark.”
The nine-time Grammy winner made her first look on the Newport People Pageant in 1967. She returned to the Rhode Island-based fest as a part of a invoice that included the Everly Brothers and Arlo Guthrie in 1969 ― the identical 12 months one among her most enduring hits, “Each Sides Now,” was launched.
Watch Mitchell carry out “Each Sides Now” beneath.
In accordance with Carlile, Sunday’s efficiency was basically a staged model of the personal “Joni Jam” live shows that Mitchell has held at her California house with well-known associates like Elton John and Bonnie Raitt. It additionally marked Mitchell’s first full-scale public live performance since November 2002, when she performed the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles.
The 78-year-old’s public appearances turned more and more uncommon after 2015, when she skilled a near-fatal mind aneurysm. She’s made a gentle return to public life as of late, showing on the 2021 Kennedy Heart Honors in December and on the 2022 Grammy Awards in April.
Talking to “CBS Mornings” in an interview that aired Monday, Mitchell appeared to be in nice spirits following what was, by all accounts, an inventive triumph.
“I’ve by no means been nervous about being in entrance of an viewers,” she stated. “However I needed to be good, , and I wasn’t positive that I could possibly be. However I didn’t sound too unhealthy tonight.”
She continued, “The surgeon that did the mind surgical procedure on me, he stated I've will and grit. ... I feel having a brush with dying like that form of softens folks in the direction of me.”
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