Fort Adams State Park, Newport
Fort Adams State Park, Newport, Rhode Island
2023 · live album
At Newport: the Joni Jam on stage
The 24 July 2022 Fort Adams performance, its gathering of musicians and the following year’s live album.
Joni Mitchell performed at Newport Folk Festival in Fort Adams State Park on 24 July 2022. The following year, At Newport carried that performance to listeners as a live album produced by Mitchell and Brandi Carlile. The stage gathering drew on the spirit of the private Joni Jams while creating a distinct public event.
Explore the places
These historical places remain in the list while their map positions are researched.
- Fort Adams State Park, Newport — Position not yet established
A gathering becomes a festival performance
Rhino’s announcement describes Carlile leading the accompanying ensemble and Cameron Crowe’s liner notes compare the stage gathering with the Joni Jams Mitchell had hosted at home. The familiar social form moved into a festival setting, with Mitchell seated alongside Carlile. This connection explains the performance’s communal shape without identifying or mapping a private home. Fort Adams is the documented public setting of the 2022 event. [2] [1]
Voice, guitar and a shared ending
The announcement identifies songs including A Case of You and Both Sides Now, then singles out Mitchell’s instrumental guitar performance of Just Like This Train. Crowe describes the set ending in a sing-along of The Circle Game. The recorded evening brings together different modes of participation: Mitchell’s playing, voices around her and a collective close. Those details give the gathering musical substance beyond the surprise of her appearance. [2]
The concert and the album have different dates
Mitchell’s release-day notice dates At Newport to 28 July 2023 and names Carlile and Mitchell as its producers. The album’s release belongs to the year after the performance it preserves. Keeping those dates separate allows the listener to follow the transition from a festival encounter to a published recording, with the same event reaching another audience through the record. [3]
The story in real places
Reading the place today
This identifies Fort Adams State Park as the 2022 festival setting. Festival admission and park access are separate arrangements. No surviving stage position or access to a private Joni Jam is implied.
Sources
- 24 July 2022: Fort Adams performance record — Joni Mitchell chronology. Checked 2026-10-17.
- At Newport: original Rhino announcement — Rhino Entertainment, archived by Joni Mitchell. Checked 2026-10-17.
- At Newport: release-day notice — Joni Mitchell / Rhino. Checked 2026-10-17.