New Year's party for Joni Mitchell

by Liza Sardi
Calgary Sun
December 30, 1997

Musician will celebrate with daughter she gave up for adoption

A picture-perfect family Christmas wasn't in the works this year for Joni Mitchell and her newfound daughter.

Despite a reunion earlier this year, Kilauren Gibb, 32, couldn't spend the holidays with her folk-singer mother because Kilauren's estranged husband wanted to spend time with their son Marlin, four.

Kilauren has custody of Marlin.

"He (the estranged husband) wanted to be with the boy when he opened his presents," Myrtle Anderson, Mitchell's mother, said in an interview from Saskatoon.

Mitchell, 53, in turn spent most of her holidays finishing up her new album in Los Angeles.

Kilauren and Marlin will instead travel down to Mitchell's L.A. home for New Years and come back through Saskatchewan to spend time with Anderson and her husband.

Mitchell gave up Kilauren for adoption in 1965 when Mitchell was first struggling to make a name for herself.

The father is Toronto photographer Brad MacMath, 56.

Mitchell and MacMath met while studying at the Alberta College of Art in Calgary but broke off their relationship shortly before Kilauren was born.

Gibb found out that she was adopted five years ago, when she was pregnant.

Her adoptive parents, retired teachers David and Ida Gibb, said they felt she should know her family history.

Kilauren is currently studying desktop publishing at Toronto's George Brown College.


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