Joni Mitchell News

Almost everything you need to know about Kate Reid is contained in "The Only Dyke at the Open Mic", from the East Van - "based performer's brand-new CD, I'm Just Warming Up .

I was first introduced to the music of Kath Bloom by New Zealand experimental pop and soundscape master Alastair Galbraith, who expressed his admiration for her work in a New Zealand National Radio interview.

TheatreWorks' 8th Annual New Works Festival presents the incomparable Broadway and pop star Maureen McGovern in A Long and Winding Road: The Concert.

Performance artist John Kelly comes to The Rrazz Room at The Hotel Nikko, 222 Mason, San Francisco CA with four performances of his legendary theatrical homage to the music of singer/songwriter Joni Mitchell .

Apparently, there are other musicians. In the land of the very much living, there is Joni Mitchell, who's getting a special call-out right now from Stevie Nicks .

A million years ago a pretty young blond Canadian girl named Joni Mitchell sang: "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got till it's gone." The simple, often forgotten life lesson from her song "Big Yellow Taxi," of course, bubbled to the surfaced with Michael Jackson's death, but it also lurked in the wings at Saturday's No ...

Folk singer Joni Mitchell would be proud. On Duluth Ave. in the Plateau, they have pulled up a paved parking lot and put up a paradise, or at least a very nice little garden with wooden benches and paving stones.

"On June 27th, and July 2nd/3rd, 2009, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, singer/songwriter Stephan David Hewitt will perform the East Coast Premiere of Full of Life Now: Songs of Liberation, a concert of original song settings from Walt Whitman's still-radical lyrics championing love, sex, body, and Soul.

After 9.7 million trucks , General Motors' truck plant in Oshawa is closed -- for good.

Earth Song was a cloying anthem about dead elephants and deforestation but that didn't stop it being Christmas number one It would certainly rank fairly low down my own list of Michael Jackson classics a ' give me something from Off the Wall anytime of the day - but it is often forgotten that his somewhat cloying environmental anthem Earth Song was ...

FIRST La Roux went in for the kill with a slew of catchy singles, and now there's another redhead set to take the music industry by storm.

FOR the past decade or so, Joni Mitchell tunes have graced Feinstein's and the Oak Room.

Although Madeleine Peyroux has had a hand in writing a song or three on each of her albums, she had been more likely to defer to classics from Bessie Smith and Edith Piaf , Leonard Cohen, and Bob Dylan , or Tom Waits and Joni Mitchell .

Tom Rush was among the crowd of performers for which the term "singer-songwriter" was originally coined.

Yesterday I gathered with a small group of folkies in the rain outside a chic hotel in Toronto's tony Yorkville .

Paved Paradise Redux: The Art of Joni Mitchell , the latest work from Obie Award-winning artist John Kelly, opens at the Abrons Arts Center June 18.

John Kelly is a man of many talents and many faces. Actor, dancer, performance artist, singer, playwright, director, visual artist, Kelly has been a creative force on the downtown scene since the mid-'80s. One of the more magical personas he has assumed is the iconic Canadian folk singer, Joni Mitchell .

"No more Jet Skis, nuclear weapons, plastic crap, broken pay phones, drugs, cars, waffle irons or television--come to think of it, that might not be a bad idea," overly mellow singer Jimmy Buffet once mused about humankind's destruction of the earth.

It's pretty simple, as Joni Mitchell made clear in "Big Yellow Taxi," to pave paradise and put up a parking lot.

A roots group that's making waves on three continents is coming to Red Deer's The Matchbox this week.