The New Parish Sit Down Sessions welcome you back to Live Music.  We will be limiting each of the shows to only 100 tickets per show and all customers will be seated.  The New Parish will be ventilated with open doors and windows allowing fresh air into the live music space to provide for a safe nd comfortable experience :::::   JUNE 22 marks for the 50th Anniversary ti the day of the release of the album BLUE by JONI MITCHELL. The songs on BLUE will be performed in the order of the album by Bay Area vocalists/ musicians: Mara Hruby, Jennifer Johns, Katy Stephens, Cava Menzies, Zara, Destiny, Sarah Vela, SeQuoiia, and others. JONI MITCHELL composed and sang all of the songs on Blue, on which she came into her own as an artist. The 1971 album spotlighted her musical genius, became her first album to sell more than a million copies, and earned admirers ranging from Bob Dylan and Prince to Taylor Swift. Per Mitchell, Blue was "probably the purest emotional record that I will ever make in my life." She found inspiration for the album in a wellspring of emotions, drawing on everything from romantic entanglements to her decision to put a child up for adoption. Mitchell felt like she 'had absolutely no secrets from the world' Much of Blue resulted from drawing back the curtain on Mitchell's innermost struggles. She said in 1979, "The Blue album, there's hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn't pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there either."