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‘I was overwhelmed with emotion’: readers on their memories of seeing Joni Mitchell live

Joni Mitchell performing at the Newport folk festival in July 2022.
Joni Mitchell performing at the Newport folk festival in July 2022. Photograph: Douglas Mason/Getty Images

‘I cheered and someone glared at me for the noise’

It was my first concert, at the RDS Main Hall in Dublin in early 1983. I’d recently bought her then-new LP Wild Things Run Fast. I remember cheering when one of the new songs came on and someone next to me glared at me for the noise. I risked taking my camera in and got some photos – the one below is the only one I can locate. I don’t remember much else of the concert after almost 40 years. At the time I was living in a small Irish midlands town due to my job, but I made the effort to drive down in my new (to me) Mini on my first long road trip to Dublin. What still rankles when I recall the concert was the theft of my concert programme as I always retain them. Tom Kenny, 62, retired bank official, Ashbourne, Ireland

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