The 78-year-old singer took a long time to recover from her accident, which for a long time prevented her from walking and talking. The folk star took advantage of the Newport festival to get back on stage and perform a dozen songs.
The famous Canadian folk singer Joni Mitchell, diminished since 2015 by a ruptured aneurysm, gave a surprise concert on Sunday July 24 at the Newport festival in the eastern United States. His first full set in 20 years. The 78-year-old legend played and sang a duet with country star Brandi Carlile, thirteen songs including some of his classics, such as A Case of You and Both Sides Nowand she delighted the audience with the electric guitar solo of Just Like This Train.
This year, she had already appeared on stage for a tribute to her by other artists in Las Vegas, during the MusiCares gala preceding the Grammy Awards ceremony, but this is the first time that she has given a sold-out concert. since 2002. Joni Mitchell had been the victim in 2015 of a ruptured aneurysm which had left her partially paralyzed, and for a time, unable to speak.
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Joni Mitchell was a major figure in the 60s folk rocker generation with hits like Big Yellow Taxia hymn to the protection of the environment that she performed on Sunday July 24, just like Woodstocktitle to the glory of the famous festival in which she had not yet participated in August 1969.
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