Joni Mitchell has announced her first Los Angeles concert in 24 years.
The beloved Canadian singer-songwriter, who became one of Los Angeles' defining voices over a long career in folk and jazz, will headline the Hollywood Bowl on October 19.
The set will reprise the format of Mitchell, 80,'s “Joni Jam” performance with collaborator Brandi Carlile at Washington's Gorge Amphitheater last year. That band included Carlile, Annie Lennox, Sarah McLachlan, Marcus Mumford, Wynonna Judd and others.
The Times' Mikael Wood described her performance of 'A Case of You' at that show as 'the most moving love song in pop history; Certainly no song more vividly captures the experience of drinking in another person's charms (even when you know they're not right for you). Mitchell sang it as a woman who knows that every story about romance contains some kind of lie, a lie worth savoring, repeating, and exposing.”
It's a boom time for Mitchell's live sets: He made a cameo with Carlile at the Bowl in October, where he performed “Shine,” “Circle Game” and “Ladies of the Canyon.”
Mitchell will also perform for the first time at the 66th Annual Grammy Awards this Sunday, where she is nominated for best folk album for “Joni Mitchell at Newport.” The nomination is Mitchell's 10th and in 2022 she received the Recording Academy's Person of the Year award.
Mitchell had largely retired from the public after suffering a brain aneurysm in 2015.
Tickets for Mitchell's performance at the Hollywood Bowl will go on pre-sale on January 31 and go on sale to the general public on February 2.
