{"id":4419,"date":"2021-09-17T12:30:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T16:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=4419"},"modified":"2021-09-18T04:45:50","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T08:45:50","slug":"blue-celebrating-the-50th-anniversary-of-joni-mitchells-acclaimed-album","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.thevillagetrip.com\/event\/blue-celebrating-the-50th-anniversary-of-joni-mitchells-acclaimed-album\/","title":{"rendered":"BLUE: celebrating the 50th anniversary of Joni Mitchell\u2019s acclaimed album"},"content":{"rendered":"

Join Hannah Reimann (vocals, piano and dulcimer) and Michele Temple (guitars and backing vocals) at a special free after-show event that closes The Village Trip 2021. Hear them perform Blue<\/em> in its entirety, a performance that marks the album\u2019s fifty-year anniversary.<\/p>\n

Reimann\u2019s retrospective of the work of Joni Mitchell began in 2012 when she, Temple, Thad DeBrock and Felipe Torres performed the album, Blue, at The Bitter End. After that, with her collaborators and especially with Temple, she has acquired a repertoire of over 30 songs from Mitchell\u2019s first six albums, performing shows in four US states.<\/p>\n

The New Yorker<\/em> has described Reimann as \u201can uncanny interpreter of Mitchell’s canon\u201d and Patrick Leader of\u00a0JoniMitchell.com commented: “All of these renditions were note-perfect. There are few better ways to spend an evening than to hear Joni Mitchell’s music done well.”<\/p>\n

Mitchell was one of many artists reviewed by New York Times<\/em> critic Robert Shelton, whose, critique of a callow Bob Dylan at Gerdes Folk City on September 29, 1961, launched his career. Of Mitchell, playing at The Bitter End, he wrote in the Times<\/em> on July 5, 1968, that songs such as \u201cCircle Game\u201d and \u201cBoth Sides Now\u201d were her strongest to date, \u201cforeshadowing a strong future as a writer\u201d. Under the headline \u201cSinger-Songwriters Are Making a Comeback\u201d, Shelton noted \u201ca fine voice\u201d, observing that Mitchell \u201cwrites like a poet and strums like the devil.\u201d<\/p>\n

Performers<\/h4>\n