Joni Mitchell has been announced for the Lifetime Achievement Award at next year’s Juno Awards – find out more below.
Set to take place on March 29 2026 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada at the TD Coliseum, the Juno Awards – the Canadian equivalent of the United States’ Grammys – will honour the best of Canadian music.
Yesterday (November 24), it was announced that folk legend Joni Mitchell will be presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at next year’s ceremony. It’ll make her only the third recipient of the coveted award, following Pierre Juneau in 1989, and Anne Murray earlier this year after the award was reintroduced.
Back in 2002, Joni Mitchell was presented with the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grammys, and was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame all the way back in 1981.
Earlier this year, Joni Mitchell made a rare live appearance, taking to the stage at the LA FireAid benefit show in late January. The show was developed as a way to provide financial support for the victims of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires.
During the benefit gig, Mitchell took to the stage for a moving rendition of ‘Both Sides Now’. Aged 81, the singer remained seated on a gold throne as she broke out the track from her 1969 album ‘Clouds’.
Joining Mitchell in the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame at the Juno Awards net year will be pop and R&B stalwart Nelly Furtado, who hosted the award show in 2024 and has taken home 10 Juno trophies over the course of her career.
News of Furtado’s induction into the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame comes shortly after the ‘I’m Like A Bird’ singer announced in late October that she will be stepping away from live performances “for the foreseeable future” in order to “pursue some other creative and personal endeavours that I feel would better suit this next phase of my life.”
She reflected: “I have enjoyed my career immensely, and I still love writing music as I have always seen it as a hobby I was lucky enough to make into a career. I’ll identify as a songwriter forever.”
