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Joni Mitchell will perform on the Grammy telecast for the first time on Feb. 4, the Recording Academy and CBS announced Sunday.
Mitchell has won nine Grammy Awards in the past and received an Academy Award for lifetime achievement in 2002. This year she is nominated for what could be her 10th Grammy, for best folk album, for her 2023 release, produced by Brandi Carlile, “Joni.” Mitchell in Newport (Live).”
Details about next Sunday’s performance were not immediately available. But it comes on the heels of a gradual return to live appearances Mitchell has made over the past two years: three concerts in which he joined Brandi Carlile and other friends in celebratory sets of “Joni Jam.”
Many assumed that Mitchell had retired from public performances after suffering a debilitating brain aneurysm in 2015. Word then spread that she was actively participating in informal musical gatherings at her home that became known as “Joni Jams.” The concept became public when she was at the center of a surprise “Joni Jam” at the Newport Folk Festival in July 2022, a concert captured for posterity on her currently Grammy-nominated live album.
Last year she made two more public concert appearances: an officially announced “Joni Jam” at the Gorge in Washington state last summer, followed by a Brandi Carlile & Friends show at the Hollywood Bowl in the fall that turned out to be in very much another Mitchell. -Focused joint concert.
The Recording Academy celebrated Mitchell as Person of the Year at a 2022 All-Star Concert and Dinner in Las Vegas in early 2022, where the singer-songwriter walked the red carpet and eventually joined the all-star ensemble on stage for the end. although he only sang a few lines at that non-televised tribute, a few months before his official return to Newport.
Mitchell’s previous Grammy Awards span a period from 1969, when she won best folk performance for “Clouds,” to 2022, when she won best historical album for the box set “Joni Mitchell Archives – Vol. 1: The Early Years (1963- 1967). Her only win in one of the top four overall categories came at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards, when she was one of multiple album of the year winners for “River: The Joni Letters,” as one of the guest singers on the Herbie Hancock tribute album. .
The Grammys will air live on CBS coast-to-coast from the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on February 4, starting at 8 pm ET/5 pm PT.
Performers previously announced for the broadcast include U2 (in a remote appearance from Las Vegas’ Sphere), Billy Joel, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Luke Combs, Travis Scott and Burna Boy.