Joni Mitchell was awarded with the Gershwin Prize in D.C.
The show, which took place earlier this month in Washington, D.C., and airs Friday on PBS, brought out a cavalcade of well-wishers, musical talent and friends. That included Brandi Carlile , James Taylor, Annie Lennox, Cyndi Lauper, Marcus Mumford, Graham Nash, Angélique Kidjo, Ledisi, Diana Krall and Herbie Hancock.Mitchell, 79, was an obvious choice for this year’s Gershwin.
, sprinkled in stories of spending time with Mitchell during her convalescence and Mitchell’s triumphant return to the Newport“The songs of Joni Mitchell, like the woman, speak to innocence and experience, success and failure, overcoming odds, falling short,” Carlile told the crowd. “[Last summer] she showed the world that it was not done with Joni Mitchell, and she showed the world that she was not done with us.
Describing her contribution “Big Yellow Taxi,” Ledisi said Mitchell wanted listeners to understand the importance of maintaining the balance of the natural world, “but she did it in an almost subversive way, wrapping the message in a universally easy-to-sing chorus that sneaks up on you and then hits you in the face with the importance of taking action.”
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