Joni Mitchell !!!

[berlinix]

[vjmanzo]

Love it! Thanks for sharing, @berlinix! I'll keep the sharing going—here's @Ken Parker talking about when he met Joni Mitchell and built her that Fly (at 1:09:54):



Ken also wrote this recently about this performance by Joni at the Newport Folk Festival:

She's playing a Western Red Cedar Fly guitar. I personally built this unique guitar for Joan in 1996, trying to help with a light, small instrument that was easy for her to hold and play, and also to provide a reliable vehicle for a Roland GK2 synth pickup, driving the brand new VG-8, a signal processor potent enough to change the pitch of the string electronically, and thus end her struggles with the 50+ tunings she plays in. She used this guitar exclusively from 1996 - 2002, when she stopped playing guitar in public. What a thrill to hear her play her magic wand after all her trials and triumphs! My Hero.

[ahmadimran]

Such a pleasant surprise, and impressive. I even read somewhere that Joni survived a brain aneurysm and had to re-learn how to play the guitar just a few months back.