Tom Dunne: A life-affirming performance of Both Sides Now from Joni Mitchell
Joni Mitchell at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival.
I heard that Joni Mitchel had appeared and performed at the Newport Folk Festival just as I was about to do an item on the radio. I mentioned it but it was hard to absorb. Hadn’t she been very unwell? Hadn’t we once feared we’d lost her?
The photos I saw immediately after did little to assuage me. She was seated, seemed frail. But then the reaction started: the joy, the love, the outpouring of emotion. “You have to watch this,” people said. I prepared a room. I closed the door.
