Joni Mitchell will play another headline show with Brandi Carlile in 2023.
The musician gave a surprise performance at the Newport Folk Festival in July and, according to her collaborator, will once again take to the stage next year.
During an appearance on ‘The Daily Show’, Brandi confirmed Joni will join her at the ‘Echoes Through the Canyon’ shows at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington state in June, 2023.
“After Newport, Joni said ‘I want to do another show.’ She said ‘I want to play again’,” explained the star.
“No one’s been able to buy a ticket to see Joni Mitchell play in 20 years,” she continued. “So this is enormous, and she’s so excited because it’s close to Canada.”
The singer suffered a brain aneurysm in 2015 which left her unable to talk or walk, but after her performance over the summer, including a guitar solo of her song Just Like This Train, her ex-husband Larry Klein says Joni is heading toward laying down new tracks in the studio.
“She’s been working her way to regain all sorts of things, and she’s been wanting to sing again, she just hadn’t gotten to the point where she had the confidence to go into the studio,” he shared.
Asked specifically about the prospect of new music, he replied: “I wouldn’t be surprised (if she records new music). She’s a hard worker.
“She’s working at regaining the ability to play guitar, and what that means is that she’ll start experimenting, and who knows what’s going to come with that?”
Joni released her most recent studio album ‘Shine’ in 2007.
Following her comeback at the festival in July, the musician revealed it was the first time she felt nervous about performing.
“I’ve never been nervous about being in front of an audience, but I wanted to be good and I wasn’t sure that I could be. But I didn’t sound too bad tonight,” she told CBS News.
“I think having a brush with death like that kind of softens people to me.”