Hejira - Celebrating Joni Mitchell

“The UK’s best and most convincing take on Joni Mitchell” ~ The Guardian

Hejira is a formidable, highly successful 7-piece touring band, set up in 2023 to celebrate the ‘greatest songs’ of Joni Mitchell. In particular, the band performs bandleader Pete Oxley’s arrangements of the masterpiece works that Mitchell recorded from ‘Court & Spark’ to ‘Wild Things Run Fast’; expect to hear such classics as ‘Amelia’, ‘Help Me’, ‘Hejira’, ‘Song For Sharon’, ‘Don’t Interrupt the Sorrow’, ‘Free Man In Paris’, ‘Coyote’ ‘Hissing of Summer Lawns’ etc..

The band has produced 10 high-quality videos for Youtube, amassing many more than 1,500,000 views and garnering thousands of glowing comments.

They have, in their short history, played more than 150 shows in the UK and Ireland, including headline features at The EFG London Jazz Festival; Musicport World-Music Festival; Brecon Jazz Festival; Mosely Folk Festival; Lincoln Jazz Festival; Scarborough Jazz Festival; Oxford Festival of the Arts; Salisbury International Arts Festival; Buxton International Festival.

They have just embarked on their first tour of the USA., the anchor shows being a headline fixture at the 40th Syracuse Jazz Festival (NY) and a show at the world-famous Iridium club in NYC. They performed 9 concerts in the north-east across 5 states, between the 7th and 17th July, 2026. As a result of this tour, Hejira have now been signed for worldwide representation (excluding Strada’s territory of the UK and Ireland) by the premier U.S. agency, the Ted Kurland Agency.