Music icon Joni Mitchell will continue her comeback from significant health issues with the announcement of several big 2024 appearances. The nine-time Grammy® Award Winner, Rock & Rock Hall of Famer, Kennedy Center Honoree, and Gershwin-prize winner, has announced her first concerts of the year—and first in Los Angeles since 2000—to take place at the Hollywood Bowl on October 19-20. Mitchell’s live return to California will feature Brandi Carlile and the Joni Jam. (The second date was added on Jan. 31 due to “overwhelming demand” for the Oct. 19 concert.) Pre-sale tickets for the Oct. 20 show will go on sale Feb. 1 and to the general public on Feb. 2 here.
This Sunday, Feb. 4, Mitchell will appear at the 66th Annual GRAMMY Awards® to make her first-ever performance at the event; she is nominated for Best Folk Album (Joni Mitchell at Newport). Mitchell received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002, having been described as “one of the most important female recording artists of the rock era” and “a powerful influence on all artists who embrace diversity, imagination and integrity.”
In the past two years, Mitchell has triumphantly returned to the stage following a brain aneurysm in 2015. First, at Newport Folk Festival in 2022, and then in June 2023, she headlined a “Joni Jam” at the Gorge Amphitheater in Quincy, Wash. Some featured guests included Annie Lennox, Sarah McLachlan, Marcus Mumford, Wynonna Judd, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, Wendy and Lisa of Prince’s Revolution, Lucius and more. Mitchell’s show at The Gorge was her first ticketed show in 20 years.
Mitchell’s live return was commemorated with Joni Mitchell at Newport, the live album released by Rhino and produced by close collaborator Brandi Carlile, along with Mitchell and with liner notes by Cameron Crowe.
In recent years, Mitchell’s expansive musical career has been archived through Grammy® Award-winning historical boxed sets also released via Rhino. The Archives, Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963-1967), Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971), and Vol. 3: The Asylum Years (1972-1975) feature unreleased home, live, and radio recordings of Mitchell’s illustrious songwriting and singing. The various collections are available to order here.