In 2023, Joni Mitchell will return to the stage for her first headline present in 23 years.
The information of Mitchell’s reside return first got here throughout Brandi Carlile’s look on The Each day Present, as Pitchfork reported, with the artist telling host Trevor Noah that Mitchell can be taking to the stage in Grant County, Washington subsequent June. Carlile will carry out her personal present within the metropolis on Friday June 9, taking to the stage on the 27,500-capacity Gorge Amphitheatre – throughout her interview with Noah, she dropped the information that Mitchell will play the identical venue the next night time.
The present has since been confirmed, in response to the Guardian. The 2-night occasion, referred to as Echoes by the Canyon and often known as Joni Jam II, can be Mitchell’s first headline present since June 2, 2000, when she capped off her full North American tour in Camden, New Jersey.
She’s since carried out a handful of one-off units at festivals and different occasions – 5 in whole, two of which happened 12 months. Her first public efficiency since 2013 got here at a profit gala for MusiCares, the place she was bestowed with their 2022 Individual Of The 12 months award.
July then noticed Mitchell performing a shock set on the Newport Music Competition – which she final appeared at in 1969 – delivering a 13-song “Joni Jam” set that featured Carlile on the tracks “Carey”, “A Case Of You” (for which Marcus Mumford was additionally welcomed out) and “Large Yellow Taxi”.
Additionally in her interview with Noah, Carlile revealed that Mitchell had been internet hosting these jam classes in personal for a number of years, forming a part of her restoration from a mind aneurysm suffered in 2015.
