“Everybody get together Try and love one another right now” In September 1969, Joni joined Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young at the Celebration at Big Sur, surprising the audience with “Get Together.” Rock journalist John Carpenter noted that her voice “carried out over the Esalen grounds, over the ocean, fitting the setting and sounding better than I have ever heard her.” | Joni Mitchell

Joni performing “Get Together” at the Mississippi River Festival in Edwardsville, IL. on this day in 1969. Larry Weaver of the Alton Evening Telegraph wrote of that night: “Joni, her powerful, bell-clear voice tracing faint images in melody, shows in her music and lyrics the philosophers' lament, a sophisticated sort of folk-blues. Joni's approach to the audience is through a high-and-mighty, and therefore mysteriously beautiful linkage of voice and song.” | Joni Mitchell