Joni Mitchell’s 80th birthday celebrated by Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn and more at star-studded bash
nypost.comhave been separated for six years.The “Mamma Mia!” star has been close with Mitchell for years, with Streep even honoring Mitchell during Grammy weekend last year.MusiCares gave Mitchell the Person of the Year award and Streep sent her a loving video message to applaud the accomplishment at the time. “I don’t know how you do what you do, I just know I need it like food,” Streep said in the tribute. “Ever since we were both young girls.
We didn’t know each other, but you sang me into being. You sang my life.”The “Blue” singer has mainly stayed under the radar in recent years.
However, she performed her first headline show in over two decades earlier this year. She sang with her longtime friend Brandi Carlile — who also attended her birthday party — at the Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington.Last year, Carlile, 42, announced the news on “The Daily Show,” and gushed: “I can’t believe it’s happening, but it’s happening.
And she is going to crush it.”“The Story” crooner and Mitchell previously joined each other on stage at the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island in July 2022.It was the Canadian singer’s first live performance since her 2015 brain aneurysm that temporarily left her unable to walk or talk.Mitchell last performed live in 2013, and hasn’t put on a full-set show since November 2002.“I’ve never been nervous about being in front of an audience,” she told CBS News after her appearance. “But I wanted it to be good.
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