Joni Mitchell to play first headline concert in 23 years - The Guardian

Joni Mitchell is acceptable to execute astatine her archetypal header performance successful 23 years.

The vocalist volition instrumentality the signifier astatine Washington’s Gorge Amphitheatre connected 10 June 2023, quality that was initially revealed by Brandi Carlile connected The Daily Show earlier authoritative confirmation later. Carlile volition besides execute a header acceptable astatine the aforesaid venue, the nighttime before. She called it “one of the astir beauteous venues successful the world”.

The two-night lawsuit is called Echoes done the Canyon and is known arsenic Joni Jam II. The archetypal authoritative Joni Jam took spot erstwhile the vocalist made an unannounced quality as portion of the Newport people festival alongside Carlile, who claimed that Mitchell said to her “I privation to bash different amusement … I privation to play again” aft it ended. Other Joni Jams person been sessions astatine Mitchell’s house.

“Joni Mitchell is going to play,” Carlile told Trevor Noah. “No one’s been capable to bargain a summons to spot Joni Mitchell play successful 20 years … So this is tremendous … and she is going to crush it!”

Mitchell’s past authoritative header shows were portion of 2000’s Both Sides Now tour.

In 2015, Mitchell suffered a encephalon aneurysm which affected her quality to talk and walk. “I got my code backmost quickly, but the walking I’m inactive struggling with,” she said to Cameron Crowe successful 2020. “But I mean, I’m a fighter. I’ve got Irish blood!” After accepting her Kennedy Center Honor successful 2021, she added: “I’ve had to travel backmost respective times from things. And this past 1 was a existent whopper. But, you know, I’m hobbling on but I’m doing each right!”

She besides attended the Grammy awards successful April. She was named idiosyncratic of the twelvemonth by the academy’s affiliated foundation MusiCares and won champion humanities medium for her retrospective, Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol 1: The Early Years (1963-1967).

Earlier this year, Mitchell joined Neil Young successful protesting Spotify implicit anti-vax content, asking the level to region her albums. “Irresponsible radical are spreading lies that are costing radical their lives,” she said successful a statement.