Joni Mitchell

In 2015, Mitchell suffered a brain aneurysm that forced her to relearn how to play the guitar. Sunday's surprise performance at the Newport Folk Festival ...

"You're going back to infancy almost. "I knew she'd do it at Newport," Carlile said. Sunday's surprise performance at the Newport Folk Festival left many in tears.

Joni Mitchell made her first full live performance since 2002 at the Newport Folk Festival alongside Brandi Carlile. See her perform “A Case of You” below.

And in March 2015, the Canadian songwriter was found unconscious in her Los Angeles home after suffering from a brain aneurysm. The singer has since been dealing with several health ailments that have prevented her from performing as frequently. On July 24, the 78-year-old Canadian legend made a surprise appearance at the Brandi Carlile & Friends show at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island, marking her first full live appearance since 2002.

Joni Mitchell sang for the better part of a set for the first time in 22 years, with "jammers" Brandi Carlile, Marcus Mumford and Celisse.

Wrote NPR’s Ann Powers after attending the Newport “jam,” describing Mitchell’s current strength of voice and register: “When she turned to the Gershwin classic ‘Summertime’ – according to some insiders, one of the first songs she took up as she recovered from her illness – Mitchell sounded a bit like Nina Simone, or like her longtime hero Annie Ross in Robert Altman’s ‘Short Cuts.’ This wasn’t the first new Joni to emerge in the 21st century. “This scene shall be forever known henceforth as the Joni jam!” Carlile said at the outset. Some of the celebrity guests at Joni Mitchell’s private hootenannies have sworn that she has been an enthusiastic participant in the living room sessions in her Santa Barbara-area home.

Brandi Carlile and Friends were joined by Joni Mitchell for a surprise set during Newport Folk Festival. She performed 13 songs.

Mitchell first made a return to the stage in April for her tribute at MusiCares Foundation's annual pre-Grammys event. "What would make her proud? It is also a major feat years after a brain aneurysm temporarily left her unable to walk or talk.

Joni Mitchell has kept a low profile since suffering a brain aneurysm in 2015. She joined Brandi Carlile for classics like "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Both Sides ...

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The beloved Canadian folk singer-songwriter appeared as a guest of Grammy-winning musician Brandi Carlile, who was closing this year's edition of the ...

The Newport, Rhode Island music festival has long embraced Mitchell’s presence in folk music. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Skip Advertisement

The surprise show was the first time the Canadian folk legend has performed in nine years and her first full concert set in more than 20 years.

She told CBS that although she’s “never been nervous” about a performance she “wanted it to be good. Mitchell has largely been retired from music since she suffered a brain aneurysm in 2015. To say Mitchell fans were elated by the surprise performance would be an understatement.

Joni Mitchell surprised the crowd at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival with her first full set-length concert appearance in two decades.

The 78-year-old singer-songwriter has rarely appeared in public since suffering a brain aneurysm in 2015. The folk icon, who first performed at the festival in 1969, joined Brandi Carlile and played multiple classics such as ‘A Case of You’, ‘Big Yellow Taxi’, and ‘Both Sides Now’. They were supported by a group of artists including Blake Mills, Marcus Mumford, Taylor Goldsmith, Lucius’ Jess Wolfe and Holly Laessig, Wynonna Judd, and more. Joni Mitchell surprised the crowd yesterday (July 24) at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival with her first full set-length concert appearance in two decades.

The beloved Canadian folk singer-songwriter appeared as a guest of Grammy-winning musician Brandi Carlile.

The Newport, Rhode Island music festival has long embraced Mitchell’s presence in folk music. At one point, she strapped on an electric guitar to play “Just Like This Train,” before closing the show with a performance of “The Circle Game.” The beloved Canadian folk singer-songwriter appeared as a guest of Grammy-winning musician Brandi Carlile, who was closing this year’s edition of the festival with a show billed as “Brandi Carlile & Friends.”

The legend played her first show in 22 years at the Newport Folk Festival, imbuing her early masterpieces with lived experience.

It’s also true that Mitchell could have plucked many other songs from her catalog that would have been equally appropriate to the occasion: tough and tender, hopeful but undeluded, sharing the complicated wisdom gained from a life spent in observation. The words are the same, but their implications are different. Just listen to the version of “Both Sides Now” she released in 2000, 30 years on from the original.

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After missing out on a recent edition of Joni Jams due to her busy schedule, Russell is making plans to attend the next one. The stage design was inspired by so-called “Joni Jams,” an invite-only event for musicians who join Mitchell at her Los Angeles home to perform together. The Newport music festival has long embraced Mitchell’s presence in folk music. “She was so humble, sort of going into it like, ‘I hope I do a good job. Mitchell’s return to live music set social media on fire Monday morning as fans shared video of the set. “With every song you could see her visibly gaining strength and power.

Festival goers at this year's edition of the long-running Newport Folk Fest were treated to an incredibly rare treat this weekend: a surpris...

"And this last one was a real whopper. But, you know, I'm hobbling along but I'm doing all right!" It was Mitchell's first Newport Folk Festival appearance since 1969.

The 78-year-old artist performed a full set, her first in about two decades, at the renowned festival in Rhode Island on Sunday.

She added, “I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.” Mitchell, never one for the limelight, has remained largely out of the public eye since having a brain aneurysm in 2015. “I will never be over this.

The 78-year-old artist performed a full set, her first in about two decades, at the renowned festival in Rhode Island on Sunday.

She added, “I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.” Mitchell, never one for the limelight, has remained largely out of the public eye since having a brain aneurysm in 2015. “I will never be over this.

Joni Mitchell's surprise performance at the Newport Folk Festival was just what we needed — a reminder that joy trumps despair every time.

It wasn’t just a testimony to those miracles that can only be achieved through both individual determination and community support; it was a reminder that there is a reason to keep hanging in there, pushing forward, seeing the bows and flows of angel hair along with the rain and snow. For those who had begun to wonder, with troubling regularity, if it is possible for American culture to recover from its wounds, self-inflicted and otherwise — or, even more tragically, if there is even a reason to try — Mitchell’s performance was a brief glimpse of possibility. But it wasn’t just the wondrous and wholly unexpected sight and sound of this Canadian-born American master live that caused throats around the world to catch. Mitchell delivered the song’s conclusion — “I really don’t know life at all” — not in bewilderment or wistful regret but with amused surrender and a glint of delight. “They could never cage or categorize her,” said one of my friends, who has long worshiped Mitchell. “Each of her works is like a little jewel in how it tells its story, and then there is that beautiful unquenchable voice.” There at the behest of Brandi Carlile, Mitchell, 78, who has spent years recovering from a brain aneurysm, sang, played guitar and proved there is a reason for social media to exist.

The last time this artist took the Newport stage was 1969. Heck, her last full concert anywhere was in the year 2000. So yesterday, when folk star Brandi ...

And the painted ponies go up and down. JONI MITCHELL AND BRANDI CARLILE: (Singing) And the seasons, they go round and round. So that moment during the song "Just Like This Train" from her album "Court And Spark" - wow.

La légende de la folk, victime d'un anévrisme qui l'avait laissée très diminuée en 2015, a retrouvé la scène à l'occasion d'un festival le week-end dernier.

Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell stole the show with a surprise appearance at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island on Sunday, playing her first ...

“Joni’s looked at life from so many sides and she came out of the storm singing like a prophet,” Carlile wrote on Twitter after the show. In January, Mitchell demanded her work be removed from music-streaming service Spotify in protest of coronavirus misinformation she said was being featured there. Mitchell told CBS she taught herself to play again after the aneurysm.

La célèbre chanteuse folk canadienne Joni Mitchell, diminuée depuis 2015 par une rupture d'anévrisme, a donné dimanche un concert surprise au festival de ...

Un moment d'émotion... La célèbre chanteuse folk canadienne Joni Mitchell a donné, dimanche, un concert surprise au festival de Newport, dans l'est des ...

Elle a été une figure majeure de la génération des folk-rockers des années 1960 avec des succès comme Big Yellow Taxi, un hymne à l'environnement qu'elle a interprété dimanche, Both Sides, Now et Woodstock, à la gloire du célèbre festival auquel elle n'avait pourtant pas participé en août 1969. Un moment d'émotion... La célèbre chanteuse folk canadienne Joni Mitchell a donné, dimanche, un concert surprise au festival de Newport, dans l'est des Etats-Unis. C'était son premier spectacle complet depuis 20 ans. C'est la première fois que la chanteuse canadienne, diminuée depuis 2015 par une rupture d'anévrisme, donnait un concert complet depuis 2002

Retour sur scène inespéré pour Joni Mitchell. Pour la première fois en 20 ans, la chanteuse canadienne a donné un concert complet dimanche au festival folk ...

Son retour sous la lumière s’est fait de manière progressive. Puis avait diffusé une vidéo en juin 2021 pour le 50e anniversaire du cultissime album Blue. Elle a également fait la manchette en janvier dernier, en retirant son catalogue de la plateforme d’écoute en continu Spotify, en soutien à son ami Neil Young, qui accusait l’entreprise d’exploiter les artistes.

La célèbre chanteuse folk canadienne Joni Mitchell, diminuée depuis 2015 par une rupture d'anévrisme, a donné dimanche un concert surprise au festival de ...

La célèbre chanteuse folk canadienne Joni Mitchell, diminuée depuis 2015 par une rupture d'anévrisme, a donné dimanche un concert surprise au festival de ...

Âgée de 78 ans, la chanteuse a mis du temps à se relever de son accident qui lui a longtemps empêché de marcher et de parler. La star du folk a profité du ...

La célèbre chanteuse folk canadienne Joni Mitchell, diminuée depuis 2015 par une rupture d'anévrisme, a donné dimanche 24 juillet un concert surprise au festival de Newport, dans l'est des États-Unis. Son premier set complet depuis 20 ans. Joni Mitchell avait été victime en 2015 d'une rupture d'anévrisme qui l'avait laissée en partie paralysée, et pendant un temps, incapable de parler. Joni Mitchell a été une figure majeure de la génération des folks rockers des années 60 avec des succès comme Big Yellow Taxi, un hymne à la protection de l'environnement qu'elle a interprété dimanche 24 juillet, tout comme Woodstock, titre à la gloire du célèbre festival auquel elle n'avait pourtant pas participé en août 1969.