Joni Mitchell. Photograph: GARY MILLER/GETTY IMAGES
Joni Mitchell will carry out on the Grammy stage for the primary time in her legendary profession on the 2024 award present, going down Sunday, February 4 at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Enviornment.
The singer-songwriter, who’s nominated for Greatest Folks Album for Joni Mitchell at Newport, beforehand obtained the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002. Nonetheless, Mitchell has by no means carried out reside on the Grammy Awards itself, till now.
Mitchell returned to taking part in reside in 2022 following a two-decade-long absence from the stage, first making a shock look on the Newport Folks Pageant that 12 months earlier than making her official comeback at the Echoes By means of the Canyon competition in June 2023; she additionally carried out at a Gershwin Prize live performance in her honor in addition to a visitor at Brandi Carlile’s Hollywood Bowl reveals.
Mitchell joins a star-studded Grammy performers lineup that features Dua Lipa, Burna Boy, Billie Eilish, Luke Combs, Travis Scott, Olivia Rodrigo, and Billy Joel, who’s returning to the award present for the primary time in over 20 years. U2 may even stage a efficiency reside from their Sphere residency in Las Vegas.
The biggest Canadian artist of all time is a nine-time Grammy winner, together with her first trophy coming in 1969 with Greatest Folks Efficiency for Clouds. Her most up-to-date Grammy got here in 2022 when her Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963–1967) was named Greatest Historic Album.
The present will air on Sunday, February 4th on CBS and Paramount Plus at 8 p.m. ET. Trevor Noah will as soon as once more function the Grammys’ host, his fourth 12 months in a row taking up internet hosting duties.
From Rolling Stone India.
