"If" is a gift to Joni's fans as her last studio recording. And "Young At Heart" magnifies the goodwill she has for her fans. Joni is the gift that keeps on giving. I'm 64 now and began listening to her when I was 9! She has enriched my life a great deal. I never waivered in my admiration for her, regardless of any period or change she made.
Hi Mike, thank you for sharing Joni's performance at The Gorge Amphitheatre! I absolutely enjoyed seeing Joni perform with the help of some of her very, very supportive friends and of course, the tremendous support of the vast audience gathered to see, hear, and to revel not only in awe but to the brilliance that is 'ALL' Joni. Great to see this!!! Wishing her a full recovery and to doing some more performances at her leisure.💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
Amazing to sing like that at such an age and after such a health issue. She still has that presence, the gestures, the timing. We should all do so well!
THIS is what life is about. With this much love, we can survive anything! Thank you Joni, Brandi, Tim, Phil and all of the other wonderful people there.
Neil Young created the song “Sugar Mountain “, which offered the view that once adulthood was reached, it was all downhill from there. Joni created “ Circle Game” to counter his dismal view. What a well crafted, beautiful song.
Give Neil a little more credit. He wrote that tune on his 19th birthday! Joni was friends with him already, and wanted to write a song to counter it, to give both herself, and Neil, hope for growing older. Both songs are beautiful, and have endured throughout the ensuing decades.
Joni's genius is more and more evident with time. Health and age conspired to change her voice and give her an entirely new and different instrument, and she mastered it to make it musical. Such a transition. There is music inside her that comes out despite all she has been through.
Thanks again @Mike Russell! I learned to sign Circle Game almost 50 years ago. I was very rusty but most of the signs came right back so while tears streamed, I was able to "sing" with Joni! And you captured the beauty of Joni's finale and her being howled back for the encore. I will replay over & over again, while I relish the memories of actually being there!
@@janelliott679 I hope you do it. It's the most beautiful, picturesque song! I can't sing a note but when I sign I feel as if I'm singing as expressively as Joni! I don't know if signs have changed over the decades or if interpreted differently in different areas but I was taught to interpret some words more concretely. So "drag your feet to slow the circles down" became "you wish time moved slower", "until the last revolving year is through" became "man becomes old and dies". Even "round and round" was signed differently at different parts of the chorus.
Thanks so much for taping this magical evening. I was pretty melancholy after watching her performance at Newport last year. I admired her courage in doing a show, but I feared we had lost the Joni I grew up with. Thankfully, I was wrong about losing Joni, as she came alive on stage on June 10. Her days as a soprano have long since passed. However, her vocal range as a contralto enriched her songs. Her phrasing is impeccable! Thanks, Mike, for posting this!
I have loved Circle Game forever. How ironical that the company that I work for uses it in there orientation. Love you Joni from an Ontario Canada fan. 🇨🇦🌹
Joni Mitchell is my idol. I feared I would never see her perform live. God bless Joni's determination to recover and now perform for all of us. The Gorge should always be filled with as much love and happiness as we all felt that night.
And what is more .. Joni Mitchel. that was so good liked your words coming in to make it current for you… great performance too Brandi had s beenna tonic for you
I haven’t transcribed it fully, but I recorded Brandi giving introductions of everyone in this video: Introductions - Joni Jam Intro + Joni Mitchell's entrance, Gorge Amphitheatre - June 10, 2023 ua-cam.com/video/P93g260xQxY/v-deo.html
Rudyard Kipling 1865 - 1936 If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream-and not make dreams your master; If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build ’em up with wornout tools; If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”; If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run- Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And-which is more-you’ll be a Man, my son!
I cannot think of another woman who has cast such a giant shadow on music over the last hundred years. In fact, I am hard-pressed to think of any woman in history who has been so influential. Every girl who has ever picked up a guitar or sat at the piano and tried to write a song, I was tribute to Joni. Taylor, Swift, Adele, Lady Gaga, Sara Bareilles, Beyoncé. You name them. They all know who is the woman that motivated them.
@@nicholashatten5334 those singers, you mentioned are monumental in cast a giant shadow over recorded music. but Joni cast a giant shadow as a songwriter. none of those R&B divas are known for their songwriting
@@jeffreytemkin818 Neither is Beyoncé. Btw, Nina wrote the bulk of her catalog and a Janet has either written or co-written with Jam/Lewis all her hits. Janet, btw is a disciple of Joni and acknowledges her as an influence. Wrap this in a big ole bowl of IMHO.
❤😂🎉 ii am 66yrs and I know Joni for some time and also played guitar but I refer to Joan Baez and some other men. I only now realized her talent to write, sing and produced her music after having Seen all Kinds of Clips and some Interviews. She is phenomenal and Not really acknowledge by the majority...and she has a great portion of Humor and Met so many famous guitar Players and singers.......any many men cannot Accept her genious..😇😇😇...but everything is possible by social media now😜😁✌️
@@pagliacci2942 yeah, Brandys effervescent, all right. Kind of reminds me of Carole King but that's not really a bad thing. Somebody's got to be exuberant around here.
I'm so happy to see Joni on stage again, I didn't think we would. She's grinning ear to ear because she's missed it so much. The Greatest Minstrel Of Our Time.
I can’t begin to tell you how beautiful and touching this song is. Joni is still able to move me in so many wonderful ways.
Love her
This is magical, it truly is. Brandi thank you for watching over the most brilliant songwriter who ever ever ever was.
I love that we all just spontaneously started howling like wolves for her.
It was great!
"If" is a gift to Joni's fans as her last studio recording. And "Young At Heart" magnifies the goodwill she has for her fans. Joni is the gift that keeps on giving. I'm 64 now and began listening to her when I was 9! She has enriched my life a great deal. I never waivered in my admiration for her, regardless of any period or change she made.
Hi Mike, thank you for sharing Joni's performance at The Gorge Amphitheatre! I absolutely enjoyed seeing Joni perform with the help of some of her very, very supportive friends and of course, the tremendous support of the vast audience gathered to see, hear, and to revel not only in awe but to the brilliance that is 'ALL' Joni. Great to see this!!! Wishing her a full recovery and to doing some more performances at her leisure.💚💚💚💚💚💚💚
Nice video Mike! "If"was my favorite Joni Jam song of the night. 😎
Amazing to sing like that at such an age and after such a health issue. She still has that presence, the gestures, the timing. We should all do so well!
❤
And her artistry extends to painting , too.
SHE IS AMAZING and always was !!!
It was such a glorious show- so glad I was able to be a part of it- Joni ,you rock!!!
THIS is what life is about. With this much love, we can survive anything! Thank you Joni, Brandi, Tim, Phil and all of the other wonderful people there.
Nothing but great memories of my life I'm 65
Thank you so very much for posting this for those of us who could not attend. So grateful!🙏
Still sings like an Angel!
🙏for the posting!💌 Goddesses of musical poetry in Gorgeous Gorge. 💫🎪🌀
Neil Young created the song “Sugar Mountain “, which offered the view that once adulthood was reached, it was all downhill from there. Joni created “ Circle Game” to counter his dismal view. What a well crafted, beautiful song.
Give Neil a little more credit. He wrote that tune on his 19th birthday! Joni was friends with him already, and wanted to write a song to counter it, to give both herself, and Neil, hope for growing older. Both songs are beautiful, and have endured throughout the ensuing decades.
@@gusmozart There was NO DISCREDIT THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@johnanderson8096 Thank you.
Joni's genius is more and more evident with time. Health and age conspired to change her voice and give her an entirely new and different instrument, and she mastered it to make it musical. Such a transition. There is music inside her that comes out despite all she has been through.
Brandi Carlile pulled the total Joni return to music. I totally cry when I see the absolute love the two have for each other.
would prefer just her and the band. Joni would again top the charts if recorded.
@@megaluckydog1212 Joni preferred it this way. You can't always get what you want.
what a beautiful artist!❤ unparalleled catalog!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
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Thank you so much for sharing! Such a magical night! Now I can re-live it with the sound track! ❤
Thanks again @Mike Russell! I learned to sign Circle Game almost 50 years ago. I was very rusty but most of the signs came right back so while tears streamed, I was able to "sing" with Joni! And you captured the beauty of Joni's finale and her being howled back for the encore. I will replay over & over again, while I relish the memories of actually being there!
❤❤
If possible I would like to sign this song... You've inspired me...
@@janelliott679 I hope you do it. It's the most beautiful, picturesque song! I can't sing a note but when I sign I feel as if I'm singing as expressively as Joni!
I don't know if signs have changed over the decades or if interpreted differently in different areas but I was taught to interpret some words more concretely. So "drag your feet to slow the circles down" became "you wish time moved slower", "until the last revolving year is through" became "man becomes old and dies". Even "round and round" was signed differently at different parts of the chorus.
Deep gratitude such a beautiful tremendous gift to this fan!❤️❤️❤️
Thanks so much for taping this magical evening. I was pretty melancholy after watching her performance at Newport last year. I admired her courage in doing a show, but I feared we had lost the Joni I grew up with. Thankfully, I was wrong about losing Joni, as she came alive on stage on June 10.
Her days as a soprano have long since passed. However, her vocal range as a contralto enriched her songs. Her phrasing is impeccable! Thanks, Mike, for posting this!
Wow! Thanks for doing such a great job filming, posting and sharing with us. Amazingly wonderful content.
Mike, thank you so much for sharing this with all of us. ❤
Thank you Brandi Carlyle for making this happen. It's brilliant.
I have loved Circle Game forever. How ironical that the company that I work for uses it in there orientation.
Love you Joni from an Ontario Canada fan. 🇨🇦🌹
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Same here, another Ontario, Thunder Bay fan.
❤ so happy to hear one of my favorite feel good performer. Live to you and best of all!
Joni so well done… incredible harmony in Joni’s voice raising to the music and so nice to return to that early song
And nailing those guitar parts on top of it!
Real soul food....
“If” was fantastic. Yep, she has definitely still got it. What a treasure.
Joni Mitchell is my idol. I feared I would never see her perform live. God bless Joni's determination to recover and now perform for all of us. The Gorge should always be filled with as much love and happiness as we all felt that night.
This was one of the most special nights of my life such a wonderful beautiful concert
🌟🌟Pure Magic 🙌🌟🌟
Amazing! She'll never stop.❤
Thank you!!! Joni sounded great! She harmonized so well too. I was so sad that I could not go. ❤
"IF"! Ty Joni for making it musical! What a performance!
I live in South Florida. God. I hope she comes somewhere near here. I'd love to see this woman
Thank you!! Made my day!!!
❤Ahhh I can breathe again! Spectacular!! ❤
Wow! I needed this big time.
And what is more .. Joni Mitchel. that was so good liked your words coming in to make it current for you… great performance too Brandi had s beenna tonic for you
My favorite song by my favorite singer great to see her doing this
So fucking proud Thank you Brandi
You can tell she loves to perform, what a treasure.
Es Maravillosa Joni!!!!
Beautiful, felt like I was there.
My love to Brandi for her love of Joni!
Thank you for sharing ❤❤❤
Is Annie Lennox in the backrow behind Joni?
OMG 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
😇😊💖
"If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you..."
❤️🌹❤️
Never thought this would have happened
What a special night. Does anyone have a musician line up on rhe stage?
I haven’t transcribed it fully, but I recorded Brandi giving introductions of everyone in this video:
Introductions - Joni Jam Intro + Joni Mitchell's entrance, Gorge Amphitheatre - June 10, 2023
ua-cam.com/video/P93g260xQxY/v-deo.html
@@MikeRussellFoto thank you sooo much for the reply and direction to the other video!
🥰💞🥺😍
My dog began a deep-throated bark at all the howling which she thought must be a pack outside the door.
I love the Gorge set up with the see through scrims to show the beauty, but it gave no protection to the artists. BRRR. It does get cold in the Gorge!
How many people in attendance.
Have not seen an official count, but the wiki for the Gorge states capacity is 27,500. And it was definitely sold out.
@@MikeRussellFoto Whoo Hoo! No doubt!!!!
27,000 paid tickets per NPR article post concert so likely also 500 complimentary tickets -- the Gorge looks completely sold-out.
Rudyard Kipling
1865 -
1936
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream-and not make dreams your master;
If you can think-and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with wornout tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings-nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run-
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And-which is more-you’ll be a Man, my son!
I cannot think of another woman who has cast such a giant shadow on music over the last hundred years. In fact, I am hard-pressed to think of any woman in history who has been so influential. Every girl who has ever picked up a guitar or sat at the piano and tried to write a song, I was tribute to Joni. Taylor, Swift, Adele, Lady Gaga, Sara Bareilles, Beyoncé. You name them. They all know who is the woman that motivated them.
Beyonce is from the house of Aretha! With a side of Nina Simone, Diana Ross and Janet Jackson. Otherwise, I agree.
@@nicholashatten5334 those singers, you mentioned are monumental in cast a giant shadow over recorded music. but Joni cast a giant shadow as a songwriter. none of those R&B divas are known for their songwriting
@@jeffreytemkin818 Neither is Beyoncé. Btw, Nina wrote the bulk of her catalog and a Janet has either written or co-written with Jam/Lewis all her hits. Janet, btw is a disciple of Joni and acknowledges her as an influence. Wrap this in a big ole bowl of IMHO.
Can’t disagree with any of that
❤😂🎉 ii am 66yrs and I know Joni for some time and also played guitar but I refer to Joan Baez and some other men. I only now realized her talent to write, sing and produced her music after having Seen all Kinds of Clips and some Interviews. She is phenomenal and Not really acknowledge by the majority...and she has a great portion of Humor and Met so many famous guitar Players and singers.......any many men cannot Accept her genious..😇😇😇...but everything is possible by social media now😜😁✌️
Amazing woman,amazing voice- just hope that they are not leaching on to her for cash.
Summer camp
Just seems weird with Brandi on the stage the whole time.
I mean, that was kinda the whole thing with the Joni Jam. ALL of the musicians were on stage the entire time.
@@MikeRussellFoto But it just seems like Brandi mostly
@@pagliacci2942 yeah, Brandys effervescent, all right. Kind of reminds me of Carole King but that's not really a bad thing. Somebody's got to be exuberant around here.
@@Lea99Jones Carole King always seemed shy 🤭
I'm so happy to see Joni on stage again, I didn't think we would. She's grinning ear to ear because she's missed it so much. The Greatest Minstrel Of Our Time.
Oh?, does Ms. Joni have a puppet act now?
Boo-this is horrible. She's done.
How old are you? 12?
Too much Brandi. WAY too much.
Stfu. I'm sick of people putting Brandi down. You're haters and homophobes and you certainly don't respect Joni if you don't respect Brandi. Bigot.