A seven piece band featuring music of Joni Mitchell, due to appear at Summerhall next week, has had to find a new venue for their upcoming concert following difficulties at the venue.
The band will now perform at St Bride’s in Dalry which has stepped up to offer an alternative home where the show will go on.
The seven piece band, Hejira, features Hattie Whitehead performing Joni Mitchell’s greatest songs. The numbers are largely drawn from Mitchell’s Shadows and Light album which the band says are “beautiful and exciting”.
A spokesperson for Hejira said: “Importantly, as with the original personnel, the band – though comprised of great and highly experienced jazz musicians – is there with the primary objective of serving the music!
“Taking on the role of Joni Mitchell will be the outstanding vocalist Hattie Whitehead – who not only pulls off the qualities of Mitchell’s singing…but also plays guitar like Joni, involving all sorts of Mitchell’s ‘open tunings’. Hattie grew up, surrounded by world-class musicians – being the daughter of the brilliant saxophonist, Tim Whitehead. Aside from mastering Joni’s vocal mannerisms, Hattie is a great singer/songwriter in her own right: she won the Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition in 2016 and has subsequently had hundreds of thousands of streams of her original works listened to.
“As it was Joni Mitchell’s 80th birthday last year – and after being awarded a Grammy this year – there couldn’t be a better-time for celebrating the major works of, arguably, the greatest singer-songwriter of the 20th century.
“Expect an evening of Joni’s ‘great songs’, such as ‘Amelia’, ‘Woodstock’, ‘A Case of You’, ‘Song for Sharon’, ‘Free Man in Pari’s ‘Hejira’ ‘Black Crow’ etc.”
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