Joni Mitchell made her debut Grammys efficiency on the age of 80, singing her traditional tune “Each Sides Now” onstage on the 2024 awards present.
For the shifting efficiency a, Mitchell was seated in a chair and held a cane as she was accompanied by a line of musicians on, appropriately, each side of her, together with Lucius, SistaStrings, Jacob Collier, Allison Russell, Blake Mills and Brandi Carlile, who launched Mitchell.
Mitchell started the efficiency together with her again to the viewers. The chair slowly circled so she was dealing with the gang close to the start of the efficiency.
She acquired enthusiastic applause from the viewers close to the start of her efficiency and the CBS cameras caught Meryl Streep and Dua Lipa watching Mitchell intently. On the finish of the efficiency, the Grammys viewers gave her a standing ovation, with Jay-Z, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and Lipa amongst these proven standing.
Grammys host Trevor Noah additionally walked onstage and gave a smiling Mitchell her Grammy from her finest folks album win earlier Sunday.
Mitchell was readily available for that win on the premiere ceremony, the place, once more holding her cane, she thanked the Grammys and talked about how the enjoyment felt through the efficiency carried over to the reside album.
Mitchell, who has gained 10 Grammys over the course of her profession, suffered a “near-fatal,” as Carlile referred to it, aneurysm in 2015 that originally left her unable to talk.
Although she’s remained largely out of the general public eye since then, Mitchell delivered her first full reside set in practically 20 years with a shock look on the 2022 Newport Folks Pageant. That efficiency, with Carlile and others, was changed into a reside album that gained finest folks album at Sunday evening’s awards.
