Brandi Carlile on her extraordinary 12 months and giving it back

As the music business struggled, returning with suits and stars as the pandemic receded

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music artist Brandi Carlile's year turned out to be epic on all levels. Her memoir, "Broken Horses,"

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And her album "In these Silent Days" racked up seven Grammy nominations in November

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and also sparked a huge tour that spanned all of this year.

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That tour, at least considerably, had a performance at the Newport folk festival

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where the forty-two-year-old Carlile introduced her heroine, Joni Mitchell, ready for Mitchell's first live performance in twenty years

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And, to cap off her top-tier year, in November, Ms. Carlile joined another of her lifelong heroes, Elton John,

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at Dodger Stadium for what was billed as her last live performance in the US. .us

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