Joni Mitchell’s First Grammys Performance Brings Crowd to Tears

Joni Mitchell made a uncommon look on the Grammys on Sunday night, performing “Each Sides, Now.”

Accompanied by Brandi Carlile, Lucius, Allison Russell and others, it marked Mitchell’s first time enjoying the lauded business occasion. She is now a 10-time Grammy winner, having received this 12 months’s award for Finest Folks Album with Joni Mitchell at Newport.

“She redefined the very function of a tune to replicate the contents of an individual’s soul,” Carlile mentioned earlier than the efficiency, describing Mitchell as “the matriarch of creativeness.”

Previous to this 12 months’s present, Mitchell’s most up-to-date Grammy win occurred in 2022, when she received Finest Historic Album for the primary installment of her archival collection, Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963–1967).

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Joni Mitchell’s Gradual Return to the Stage

In 2015, Mitchell suffered a mind aneurysm that left her unable to stroll and speak, abilities she was then compelled to re-learn. With the assistance of fellow musicians like Brandi Carlile, she additionally slowly started enjoying music once more, usually gathering with others in her house for informal classes affectionately dubbed “Joni Jams.”

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In 2022, Mitchell made a shock look on the Newport Folks Competition, the place she carried out a handful of songs with Carlile. Nearly a 12 months after that, Mitchell carried out at the Gorge Amphitheater in Quincy, Washington, her first headlining, ticketed live performance since 2002. She appeared alongside Carlile and varied different celebrated musicians, together with Annie Lennox, Wendy Melvoin, Allison Russell, Marcus Mumford, Sarah McLachlan and others.

“[I’ve] watched one of the crucial miraculous issues I’ve seen in my life,” Carlile mentioned at that present, “and now you get to see it.”