Night in the City

Tomorrow morning we're off to New York City to see "The Music of Joni Mitchell" at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday evening. It's a benefit for the New York-based Music for Youth Foundation.

I found out about it totally by accident on the website, and we did get pretty good seats.

I'm thrilled, to say the least. Will Joni show up? Well, at first the folks at her website told me she would, then someone posted on the site that she wouldn't be there--now it appears that she may.

Well, it'd be fantastic if she would show up--but who knows with Joni. She will likely be smoking from the balcony if she does--there's no way she'll perform.

At any rate, check out the artists who are going to be there (there are more, but these are the people I'm most excited about):

Laurie Anderson
Marc Cohn
Judy Collins
Shawn Colvin
Cowboy Junkies
eels
Amy Grant
Richie Havens
Bettye LaVette
Nellie McKay
Me’shell NdegéOcello
Tom Rush
Jimmy Scott
Neil Sedaka
Martin Sexton
Suzanne Vega
Dar Williams

Also mentioned along the way were Alison Krauss, Ben Folds and Joe Jackson--whom I'd love to see. Apparently each artist is limited to one song...it'll be a night to remember. Neil Sedaka? The eels? I can't wait to tell you all about it Thursday!