Grammy Awards 2024: performances by Joni Mitchell, U2 and others

Grammy Awards 2024: performances by Joni Mitchell, U2 and others

The event was held at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles on the night between 4 and 5 February ceremony of the 2024 Grammy Awards. During “music’s bigget night”, in addition to the announcement of the winners in the various categories (here is the list of all the winners) seeing Taylor Swift triumph above all – who also announced her new album “The tortured poets department”, Miley Cyrus, Boygenius, SZA and Billie Eilish, several artists enlivened the evening with their performance.

Among those who took turns on stage were SZA, Billie Eilish, Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo, Travis Scott, Burna Boy, Billy Joel, U2, Joni Mitchell, Tracy Chapman with Luke Combs and many more.

As already announced, however Joni Mitchell it was the first live performance, in his sixty-year career, at the Grammys. On stage at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles the Canadian musician, who won in the “Best folk album” category thanks to the live album “Joni Mitchell at Newport“he proposed live”Both sides, now“.

Bono and companionsinstead, they performed “Atomic city“, connected from the Sphere in Las Vegas, the theater of their residency which will see them engaged in the futuristic venue until February 18th.

In addition to their respective new singles presented live by Billy Joelwho before playing “You may be right” proposed “Turn the lights back on“, And Dua Lipa who performed the unpublished “Training season” with “Houdini“, Tracy Chapman joined Luke Combs on stage for “Fast Car.”

One of the classic Grammy moments was not missing in this edition either, “In memoriam“, in which the greats of music who passed away the previous year are remembered. During the 2024 Grammy Awards ceremony, they were therefore remembered Tony Bennett with a performance by Stevie Wonder, Sinead O’Connor from Annie Lennox’s performance alongside Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman. Jon Batiste instead honored Clarence Avantintroduced by Lenny Kravitz, while Tina Turner she was remembered by Fantasia Barrino and Oprah Winfrey.