Note that while I'm posting all I have from this festival in a bunch, I'm not attempting to organize the albums into "Part 1," Part 2," and so on. That's because it was a three day festival, and I only have a couple of sets from each day. I also don't know the order of the performances.
Joni Mitchell wasn't a big name yet in 1968, at the time of this concert. She was getting a lot of acclaim for her songwriting, and some famous musicians were already covering her songs. But she'd only released one album at the time of this concert, and that one, "Song to a Seagull," didn't make the charts. So it looks like she was only allowed a pretty short set. The official jonimitchell.com website has tons of good information. It has an article that reviewed her performance, which you can read here:
https://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=603
According to that, she received a standing ovation, which was unusual for the festival. And the audience cheered for more, but she said she was only allowed to play five songs for 20 minutes. (Cleverly, it looks like she stretched that a bit by playing a medley of two songs at the end.)
She only played one song ("Cactus Tree") from the sole album she'd released so far. Instead, three songs would come from her album "Ladies of the Canyon," one from "Clouds," and one from "Blue."
This album is 26 minutes long.
01 That Song about the Midway (Joni Mitchell)
02 talk (Joni Mitchell)
03 Cactus Tree (Joni Mitchell)
04 Chelsea Morning (Joni Mitchell)
05 talk (Joni Mitchell)
06 Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell)
07 talk (Joni Mitchell)
08 The Circle Game - Little Green (Joni Mitchell)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/B2ibjhNE
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/ThztLxga4BOYSSw/file
The cover photo is from this exact concert. However, the original was in black and white. I had to colorize it with the use of the Kolorize program.
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