Joni Mitchell will perform at next week's Grammy Awards, organizers announced Sunday, marking the beloved singer-songwriter's first performance at music's highest-profile awards show and her latest step in a public comeback after an aneurysm. debilitating brain in 2015.
Mitchell, 80, is nominated for best folk album at the Feb. 4 ceremony. “Joni Mitchell at Newport” is a live recording of a surprise concert she performed at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival.
The singer's first full concert since her aneurysm, the Newport set grew out of the so-called Joni Jams that Mitchell has held at her Bel-Air home in recent years with a variety of friends and fans. In Newport, she was joined by artists such as Brandi Carlile, Wynonna Judd, Marcus Mumford and Allison Russell; Among the dozen classics she performed were “Carey,” “Big Yellow Taxi,” “Help Me,” “The Circle Game” and “Both Sides Now.”
Last year, Mitchell brought a similar show to the Gorge Amphitheater near Quincy, Washington.
Mitchell has won nine Grammy Awards; the most recent was in 2022, when she took home the landmark album award for “Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967),” as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Recording Academy. She appeared on the 2022 show alongside Bonnie Raitt to host a performance by Carlile.
Other artists set to perform at the 66th Grammy Awards, which will be held at the Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles, include Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, Dua Lipa, U2, Travis Scott, Billy Joel, Burna Boy and Luke Combs.
