Brandi Carlile, James Taylor, others celebrate Joni Mitchell's 75th birthday in concert film

The movie will be screened Wednesday night at the Landmark Edina Theater, with a soundtrack album due March 8.

February 12, 2019 at 6:30PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
Joni Mitchell at her 75th birthday party/ Photo by Richard Shotwell, Invision/AP
Joni Mitchell at her 75th birthday party/ Photo by Richard Shotwell, Invision/AP (The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Diana Ross isn't the only musical legend celebrating a 75th birthday.

Joni Mitchell, long retired from performing, invited some famous friends and singers to interpret her songs for her birthday concert in November in Los Angeles.

Filmed over two nights, the show is now being presented as "Joni 75: A Birthday Celebration."

There is a screening at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Landmark Edina Theater, where it played for one night last week. Tickets are $15.

The film features James Taylor, Emmylou Harris, Brandi Carlile, Seal, Chaka Khan, Norah Jones, Kris Kristofferson, Diana Krall, Los Lobos, Glen Hansard and Rufus Wainwright doing Mitchell songs. Graham Nash offers his own "Our House," about when he and Mitchell lived together.

The film was directed by Martyn Atkins, who has helmed concert movies and videos for Paul Simon, Eric Clapton, John Fogerty, Sheryl Crow and Taylor & Carole King.

Seldom seen in public since suffering a brain aneurysm in 2015, Mitchell was a guest Saturday at Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy gala in Beverly Hills.

A soundtrack album of the Joni 75 concert will be released on March 8.

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Jon Bream

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Jon Bream has been a music critic at the Star Tribune since 1975, making him the longest tenured pop critic at a U.S. daily newspaper. He has attended more than 8,000 concerts and written four books (on Prince, Led Zeppelin, Neil Diamond and Bob Dylan). Thus far, he has ignored readers’ suggestions that he take a music-appreciation class.

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