Watch Elton John, Chappell Roan and extra be part of Joni Mitchell for the “final” Joni Jam

Elton John, Chappell Roan, Lucy Dacus and extra had been backstage at Joni Mitchell‘s Hollywood Bowl concert events this previous weekend for a secret jam session – watch a clip of the jam under.

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This previous Saturday and Sunday (October 19 and 20), Joni Mitchell held her first headlining concert events in Los Angeles in over 24 years. The concert events had been an enormous deal and featured a star-studded solid of supporting musicians and visitor performers.

Nevertheless, it now seems that some main stars reserved their attendance for a secret backstage jam with Joni herself. Within the clip under, shared on social media by Brandi Carlile, Joni may be seen jamming alongside to Elton John’s 1983 traditional ‘I’m Nonetheless Standing’. In attendance apart from Joni Mitchell and Brandi Carlile had been Elton himself, Chappell Roan, Lucy Dacus, Tim Hanseroth, Blake Mills and Allison Russell.

Within the clip, cheekily captioned “the last word backstage Joni Jam” and “backstage antics on the Hollywood Bowl,” Elton John may be seen main the cost as Mitchell smiles extensively, tapping her cane on the ground.

Carlile later shared {a photograph} of herself with Mitchell, John, Roan and Dacus and captioned the submit: “Joni Mitchell with the complete backing of the homosexual mafia…”

Elsewhere, in the course of the first of her two Joni Jam reveals on the Hollywood Bowl, Mitchell carried out the political observe ‘Canine Eat Canine’ for the primary time since 1985. After the music, a fan shouted an insult directed in direction of Donald Trump, selling Mitchell to echo again: “Fuck Donald Trump”.

Mitchell continued: “Everyone get out and vote. This is a crucial one. I want I may vote – I’m Canadian. I’m a type of awful immigrants.”

Throughout each nights, Mitchell’s band was made up of musicians akin to Brandi Carlile, Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, Annie Lennox, Marcus Mumford, Jon Batiste, Jacob Collier and lots of extra.

On the reveals, Joni additionally broke out quite a few rarities that had not been performed stay in a long time, together with ‘Be Cool’, ‘Hejira’, ‘Cherokee Louise’ (first time since ’95), ‘Coyote (first since ’01), ‘God Should Be A Boogie Man’ (first since 1983), ‘Sunny Sunday’ (first since 1995), and extra.