Joni Mitchell will be headlining a concert for the first time in 23 years. She will be performing at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington in 2023. The news came from the mouth of Brandi Carlile on The Daily Show before official confirmation. 

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The award-winning singer suffered a brain aneurysm in 2015, affecting her ability to speak and walk. By 2020, she had managed to get her ability to speak back but walking was still a struggle, is what she told Cameron Crowe. In April this year, the singer managed to attend the Grammys and was named the person of the year by the charity MusiCares. She also won best historical album for a retrospective for Joni Mitchell Archives, Vol 1: The Early Years. 

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Earlier this year, she joined Neil Young in protesting Spotify hosting anti-vax content and asked that the platform remove her albums. “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives,” the singer had said in a statement at the time. 

Born on November 7, 1943, Joni Mitchell turned 78 in 2022. When she started her career, Mitchell’s songs would often reflect on her feelings and thoughts about womanhood, disillusionment, and joy while also reflecting on social and philosophical ideals.

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Early in her career, she had a daughter with her ex-boyfriend Chuck Mitchell, whom she later married in 1965. The couple divorced two years later in 1967. Prior to her marriage to Mitchell, she had a child with another ex-boyfriend named Brad MacMath but gave the girl up for adoption because she could not care for the child at the time. 

As her career grew, Mitchell began to create several new albums and made new hit songs. She began working with bassist and sound engineer Larry Klein, whom she married in 1982. The couple’s marriage ended after 12 years in 1994. 

Thanks to her award-winning albums and numerous hit songs, Joni Mitchell is worth $100 million, as of 2022.