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It connects us, it brings us closer to ourselves and to each other., There was word that initially an all-women tour wouldnt sell tickets, said Emily Saliers of folk duo Indigo Girls, who came up with the idea for the night-closing singalong, which would bring all the evenings performers onstage. Sarah McLachlan unexpectedly hit the financial jackpot when she launched Lilith Fair in 1997. As the Nineties progressed, I found that there were more and more women sound engineers and there were more women musicians in my band, I had a female guitar player. Frankly Scarlet Bonnie Raitt Oh Suzanna It was July 5th 1997: Opening night of the groundbreaking all-female music festival Lilith Fair. Anglique Kidjo Melanie Doane Queen Latifah Tiny sunnies came home to her favorite room! Were gonna go over here and were gonna do it ourselves. The organizers of the 2010 Lilith Fair initially one of the most-anticipated tours of the summer have just announced the cancellation of 10 dates: Salt Lake City, Montreal, Raleigh . Kacy Crowley . Tracy Bonham As the double-stage, 32-date extravaganza winds its way across the U.S., the lineup will change periodically with headliner and Lilith Fair organizer Sarah McLachlan remaining constant. Our intentions, in hindsight, werent really pure, says McLachlan. The first seven shows were sparsely attended and the eighth show was the first to be cancelled. India Arie Nancy Falkow Lilith Fair ~ Lilith Fair: A Celebration Of W. Amazon.com. " Contents Lilith as Adam's First Wife Anti-Lilith Amulets and Incantation Bowls From Outcast to Feminist Icon Lilith as Adam's First Wife Alexis Antes Camille Morcheeba The lineup featured a who's who of female alternative musicians of the moment: Sheryl Crow,. Paris Hampton Appearances were organized into three stages. I started a free music school for [at-risk] kids in Vancouver, which Ive been running and funding for the last 16 years. Lilith Fair ended up with $16 million in ticket sales that year, making it the top-grossing festival tour of 1997. Tracy Bonham, Second stage artists Juliana Hatfield The lineup has stretched its boundaries but only by a fraction: New additions Liz Phair and Missy Elliott doubtlessly will offer a blast of unruly. While it isn't possible to condense all of Lilith Fair onto one DVD, I really wish this disc showed a wider range of performers. Ali Eisner The venture was also a smashing success, becoming the top-grossing festival of 1997. The 1998 Lilith Fair Tour Dates: June 19; Portland, Ore., Portland Meadows June 20; George, Wash., The Gorge Amphitheatre June 21; George, Wash., The Gorge Amphitheatre June 23; Mountain. Dido Neko Case As the biggest all-female festival ever in a male-dominated industry, Sarah MacLachlan was on the cover of Time and McLachlan, Fiona Apple, Sheryl Crow, and Joan Osborne were on the cover of Entertainment Weekly; and it was the highest grossing touring festival of 1997. Catherine Kidd The female festival will carry on through the summer, hitting such cities as Toronto, Montreal, Los Angeles . Alison Pipitone Jabber And it became this we're going to break down some barriers. Madeleine Peyroux The Rose Bowl, perhaps the largest venue on the tour that includes shows July 15 and 16 at Jones Beach in New York, will be configured for a crowd of 40,000. Susanna Hoffs Julianne Blue After its third successful summer on the road, the 90's iteration of Lilith came to an end. Many of them won slots on the bill in a series of local talent searches in their home cities. As of 2015, she had sold over 40 million albums worldwide. Lilith temporary tattoos available in the merchandse section of the official lilith site. Sarah McLachlan said that's exactly what Lilith Fair was always supposed to achieve. The Indigo Girls: Amy Ray in a striped button-down and striped pants, and Emily Saliers in overalls. Holly Cole In addition, she noted that last year's tour raised more than $700,000 for various causes and charities. . It was July 5th 1997: Opening night of the groundbreaking all-female music festival Lilith Fair. Lilith Fair was the culmination of a year of work by its founder, a Canadian singer-songwriter. This article was published more than 13 years ago. Lilith Fair Celebrates Its 15th Anniversary. Red tide getting worse along Gulf beaches, Port Tampa Bay is seeing an increase in both cargo trade and cruise passengers, SpaceX, NASA try once again to launch a multinational crew from the Kennedy Space Center, Eli Lilly cuts the price of insulin, capping drug at $35 per month out-of-pocket, Look up! ', The True Story Behind 'Cocaine Bear': A 175-Pound Beast, a Dead Drug Smuggler in Gucci Loafers and More, Michael B. Jordan Meets Reporter at 'Creed III' Premiere Who 'Teased Him all the Time' in High School: 'I Was the Corny Kid, Right? . Similar in scope to Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, which captures the inaugural tour, the 1998 festival is presented on volumes 2 and 3, with each disc available separately this time around.Volume 2 offers a large dose of the folksy acoustic fare we've come to associate with VH-1 (i.e., Natalie . April 17, 1998 Web posted at: 2:35 a.m. EDT (0635 GMT) LOS ANGELES (CNN) -- Singer Sarah McLachlan on Thursday announced this year's lineup for Lilith Fair, an all-female traveling music. "Angel" singer-songwriter and Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan brings her symphonic mini-tour to Forest Hills Stadium on Friday for a date with the New York Pops. Girl Power! All Rights Reserved. It just felt like the Nineties was a time when there was a shift. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "BEHIND THE MUSIC") JIM FORBES: Sheryl Crow . By 1998, the organizers of Lilith had more money to work with, and could point to the marked success of the previous summer. Sheryl Crow "And I think I flourished as a musician because I was out of the male gaze and music where it's just, you know, 'Show me what you got.' Published December 11, 2009. [2] McLachlan followed this success with two more rounds, in 1998 and 1999. "To create an environment where everybody gets to be seen and heard and valued, and come as you are, you know, let your freak flag fly this is the place you get to do that and there is no judgment here," she recalls. "And I don't think we did enough due diligence in discovering how our audience had changed and how to reflect that. The 1998 tour also proved profitable, further proving the commercial point.. Billie Myers Neneh Cherry This year's itinerary of Lilith Fair has been expanded to 57 shows (from 37 in 1997). Mary Jane Lamond Letters to Cleo . My publicist was a woman. While its tempting to view analyses like the above as simple score-tallying, thinking about how women are presented in the pop landscape remains a worthy exercise 20 years after Lilith made its first go-round. Get concert tickets, news and RSVP to . Variety is a part of Penske Media Corporation. It wasnt inclusive of everything that was going on, and it wasnt showing the innovation in music., But while many massive artistic undertakings meet criticism with defensiveness, Lilith Fair came back the second year with a lineup that was much more diverse, racially and musically. You might even consider it legendary. It consisted solely of female solo artists and female-led bands. Because we outdrew all of those festivals back in 97, 98 and 99. Photograph from the Hulton Archive via Getty Images. Victoria Williams Arista/Tyde will release a two-CD set culled from last years perfs on April 28 with 50% of the proceeds going to RAINN and Lifebeat. Photograph by Steve Eichner for Getty Images. Going in, [a lot of women at Rolling Stone] had reservations about Lilith because it was taking the most passive thing in popular music that women were doing and putting it forth as the united front of women in music, and it wasnt united at all. Alana Davis Or English singer Dido, whose song "Thank you" was featured in movie soundtracks and sampled in Eminem's award-winning single "Stan. Our mission is great music being made by women. Laurie Geltman Chantal Kreviazuk Missy Elliott In an April 25, 2009, Twitter post, Nettwerk founder Terry McBride announced that a Lilith Fair tour through North America would be relaunched for the summer of 2010, with a two-week tour of Europe to follow. Fisher, Village Stage artists Lovechild Roadie Ray It returned for two more summers and went on to become the top-grossing music festival of the late 1990s, racking up $60 million in ticket sales over its three-year run. Lilith Fair was one of the most successful touring festivals of the 1990s. Ana Gasteyer 2023 Variety Media, LLC. And I have to have a life. And Lilith Fairs legacy of supporting charities devoted to helping women, which was commemorated at a daily press conference where McLachlan would present a local nonprofit with a check representing a percentage of ticket sales, reverberates today with artists who speak up, play benefit shows and raise money for causes they believe in including McLachlan. Morcheeba It lasted 3 years, from 1997 to 1999. The festival ran from 1997-1999, with one revival tour in 2010. Trust me, I play great female records and weve got some right now; theyre just not the lettuce in our salad, he told Country Aircheck. Bic Runga And you guys showed me that I could do anything. Erykah Badu performing in a raffia coat, in Mountain View (above) and Pasadena (below). While some now think of Lilith Fair with gentle mockinga utopia of calico feminism that was even parodied on Saturday Night Livethe festivals first iteration was a music industry revolution. Shawn Colvin The rest is told in his gripping visuals, The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist. The Vancouver-based Grammy . The artists appearing at Lilith Fair vary by date (with McLachlan the only artist to play all dates). K's Choice, Village Stage artists April 28, 1999. My year for the girls apparently. CREATIVE. In a new show, we kind of threw up the same model, which, you know, obviously in hindsight was quite stupid and it didn't get the audiences that we expected to get.". The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time McLachlan and her partners ended up canceling the tour after only a few shows. Diana Krall Kim Fox While the first year skewed heavily toward folk-tinged artists who were also getting lots of pop radio airplay McLachlan, Cole, Loeb, Jewel, Sheryl Crow the genre scope expanded over the tours second and third years. Lauryn Hill Sarah McLachlan will be joined by Natalie Merchant, Sheryl Crow, Erykah Badu, Indigo Girls and Shawn Colvin on the mainstage when the Lilith Fair tour stops at the Rose Bowl June 27. Sarah Ann McLachlan OC OBC (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Bank Arts Center, July 15; New York, N.Y., Jones Beach Amphitheatre, July 16; New York, N.Y., Jones Beach Amphitheatre, July 17; Camden, N.J., Blockbuster-Sony Music Entertainment Center, July 18; Columbia, Md., Merriweather Post Pavilion, July 19; Columbia, Md., Merriweather Post Pavilion, July 21; Virginia Beach, Va., GET Virginia Beach Amphitheatre, July 22; Raleigh, N.C., Hardee's Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, July 23; Charlotte, N.C., Blockbuster Pavilion, July 24; Atlanta, Ga., Coca-Cola Lakewood Amphitheatre, July 26; West Palm Beach, Fla., Sony/Blockbuster Coral Sky Amphitheatre, July 27; Orlando, Fla., Central Florida Fairgrounds, July 29; Houston, Texas, The Woodlands, July 30; Houston, Texas, The Woodlands, July 31; Austin, Texas, South Park Meadows, Aug. 1; Dallas, Texas, Coca-Cola Starplex, Aug. 3; Nashville, Tenn., Starwood Amphitheatre, Aug. 4; St. Louis, Mo., Riverport Amphitheatre, Aug. 5; Chicago, Ill., New World Music Theatre, Aug. 6; Cleveland, Ohio, Blossom Music Center, Aug. 8; Cincinatti, Ohio, Riverbend Music Center, Aug. 9; Pittsburgh, Pa., Coca-Cola Starlake Amphitheatre, Aug. 11; Mansfield, Mass., Great Woods Center, Aug. 12; Mansfield, Mass., Great Woods Center, Aug. 15; Toronto, Ont., Molson Amphitheatre, Aug. 16; Toronto, Ont., Molson Amphitheatre, Aug. 17; Buffalo, N.Y., Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, Aug. 19; Milwaukee, Wis., Marcus Amphitheatre, Aug. 20; Milwaukee, Wis., Marcus Amphitheatre, Aug. 21; Minneapolis, Minn., Canterbury Park, Aug. 23; Denver, Colo., Fiddlers Green Amphitheatre, Aug. 25; Salt Lake City, Utah, Wolf Mountain, Aug. 26; Boise, Idaho, The Idaho Center, Aug. 28; Calgary, Alb., To Be Announced, Aug. 29; Edmonton, Alb., To Be Announced. Jul 18, 1998 Merriweather Post Pavilion Columbia, Maryland, United States Lilith Fair '98 News. And I think its the closest thing to church that I understand getting to sing, to share my purpose, to live my purpose, and to connect with other people who are feeling the same way, doing a similar thing, and creating that great energy of creating positive special change. It's success upended concert industry norms and created a new place where female artistry could evolve and flourish. The digital music era meant that audiences were now discovering new music online, rather than on touring festival lineups. Rebekah Lilith Fair 1998 | Concerts Wiki | Fandom Lilith Fair 1998 View source The artists appearing at Lilith Fair varied by date (with McLachlan the only artist to play all dates). In the mid-1990s female. The pop charts, meanwhile, have swung back to being male-dominated after the surge in the 2010s that led to artists like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and Beyonc dominating the conversation. While the Blondie/Garbage Rage and Rapture double bill (which features openers like sullen pop upstart Sky Ferreira and bash-happy duo Deap Vally) puts ladies first, the summers other shed offerings (Muse/30 Seconds to Mars, Stone Sour/Korn, Incubus/Jimmy Eat World) recall the Ozzfest and Lollapalooza lineups of the mid-to-late Nineties. Audra Jost Beth Orton 5:40 p.m. -- Lisa Loeb, the only artist to score a No. Ann Powers says yes. Mary Lou Lord Lilith Fair was the culmination of a year of work by its founder, a Canadian singer-songwriter. Traveling festivals, which had grown in popularity since the early-Nineties launch of Lollapalooza, were at the time dominated by male-fronted acts; in 1996 Lollapalooza shifted its aesthetic to a harder sound by having Metallica headline, and that year the metal-forward Ozzfest debuted as well. The eclectic group of women artists included folk, rock, country and pop musicians and sold out nearly every single show its first year. They are $2 each and are about 2"x2" Buy yours and wear it with pride to Lilith to show your support! I enjoyed the fact that we were doing something unique and different. Holly McNarland It felt that it was a natural thing that we all got to participate in something that was way bigger than ourselves. The lineup featured a who's who of female alternative musicians of the moment: Sheryl Crow, Jewel, The Indigo Girls, Lisa Loeb, Fiona Apple, Shawn Colvin, Tracy Chapman, Natalie Merchant and more. Center: a Lilith Fair crowd. Fontaine 5:31 PM. Not only that, Lilith Fair radically expanded creative possibilities for women musicians, who took to its stages to triumph, to experiment, even to fail and to try again. People have been having babies and getting married and divorced, and I've missed it all.". Love Riot 4 talking about this. Appearances were organized into three stages. Sarah MacLachlan was on the cover of Time, McLachlan, Fiona Apple, Sheryl Crow, and Joan Osborne were on the cover of Entertainment Weekly, elaborate costume changes of the kind we now expect at festivals. Not that Sarah McLachlan, Jewel, Indigo Girls, Meredith Brooks, Shwawn Colvin, and Sheryl Crow didn't give great (multiple) performances on this disc, but one of the things I enjoyed about Lilith was the sheer number of musicians, both multi-platinum and indie. Each day, 11 bands will perform; but the roster changes in every single market. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards (out of four nominations) and four Juno Awards.In addition to her personal artistic efforts, she founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased female musicians. Amy Rigby Given the lineup at last year's Metallica-led Lollapalooza . But while there werent elaborate costume changes of the kind we now expect at festivals, each musicians style was an expression of her voice, as essential to her performance as any other element. McLachlan brought Lilith Fair back in 1998 and 1999. And it was more like, 'What can you make me feel?'". LF took place during the summers of '97, '98, '99, and was revived again in 2010. Kacy Crowley It presented itself as the softer, feminist alternative to the machismo of all-male rock tours. 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Each stop will feature three stages: An acoustic Village Stage that will feature local artists and a talent search winner; a second stage of up-and-comers (Rose Bowl will see Ks Choice, Billie Myers and Lhasa); and a mainstage that, at various venues, will showcase MeShell Ndegeocello, Missy Elliott, Queen Latifah, Liz Phair, Emmylou Harris, Neneh Cherry, Joan Osborne, the Cowboy Junkies and others. Written By Evelyn Mcdonnell . Almost all Village Stage artists performed only one or two dates. Releasing two albums in three years, kick-starting a major touring festival and getting married - all milestones that left the singer exhausted. Missy Elliot, dressed in an outrageous bubble costume, performing at Jones Beach during Lilith Fair, 1998. Donna Martin McLachlan was joined at the press conference by Raitt, Liz Phair, Paula Cole and others. Lilith Fair 1998. In 1997, Sarah McLachlan. Twenty years ago this month, Sarah McLachlan and a rotating cast of fellow artists embarked on the women-centric traveling fest known as Lilith Fair. 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The festival lasted three summers (and one revival in 2010) and raised more than $10 million for women's charities. Club and theater tours are more balanced, with a few lady-forward bills traveling the country chugging indie rock act Waxahatchee is touring with Boston trio Palehound, while daughter of Lilith Michelle Branch is taking Brooklynites Haerts on the road but the overall idea of women as some sort of musical other that should be taken in regimented doses still prevails. Diana King Even in its first year, Lilith Fair's lineup was a who's who of female alternative rock artists. The other wore a baby . Natalie Merchant rides to the stage in a polka-dot print dress with red slides and a white lace parasol, at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. In March 2011, McLachlan declared that the Lilith concept was no longer being considered for future shows, due to changing audience views and expectations.[4]. Lilith Fair Lineup + Dates Announced. Victoria Williams Liz Phair in a brown and khaki dress with an open back. Here at Shoreline, the headliners are McLachlan, the Indigo Girls, Merchant and Badu. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. I was at the Juno Awards, recalls McLachlan, and this woman, she was probably close to 40, came up to me and said, You know, I was at Lilith, all three of them, when I was a teenager. Julie Kryk In 2010, Lilith Fair staged a revival with mixed results, as several dates were cancelled and many performers backed out of scheduled performances. Meredith Brooks What's more, the music industry had undergone a seismic change over a decade. Mudgirl Perhaps inevitably, Lilith became a target for comedians and cultural critics scoring points at the expense of female musical agency. Jul 27, 1998 - Jul 27, 1998 Central Florida Fairgrounds & Exposition Park Orlando, Florida, United States The lineup featured a who's who of female alternative musicians of the moment: Sheryl Crow, Jewel, The Indigo Girls, Lisa Loeb, Fiona Apple, Shawn Colvin, Tracy Chapman, Natalie Merchant and more. Clandestine My artist can play in front of a new audience and get a whole new audience. Young. Many of them won slots on the bill in a series of local talent searches in their home cities. Lori Carson After the first year, it was much easier to get artists, because managers looked at us and would say, This is a great bridge. Eden White Shocked" Wild Strawberries [5][dead link] Appearances were organized into three stages. Elise Knoll Mix - Lilith Fair - Full Performance Live Natalie Merchant, 10,000 Maniacs, Sarah McLachlan, and more Sheryl Crow - Unplugged Concert in Brooklyn, NY (Full - 10 songs - 45 min) riverwidetv. Sarah McLachlan and Paula Cole at a press conference announcing Lilith Fair in April 1998. We're looking back to see where the stars of . Due to poor ticket sales, thirteen shows (about one-third of the tour) were scratched (two announced on June 25,[8] ten more on July 1,[9] one additional on July 2)[10] and one reassigned to a smaller venue. The way streaming habits are tallied reverberates too; Ed Sheeran and Drakes 2017 chart-topping LPs led to the Hot 100 being flooded with those collections album cuts, but none of the female artists who hit the Number One spot earlier this summer experienced a similar streaming-occasioned bump. In its first summer, Lilith easily outpaced the then-fading Lollapolooza festival, in both audience size and ticket sales. Read Next: Brit Beat: BRIT Awards Boss Hopes for Higher Representation of Women; Wet Legs Label Looks at Longue-Term Success, New Jersey Gov. Support WUSF now by giving monthly, or make a one-time donation online. But in choosing the name Lilith Fair, the festival's organizers revealed more than they may have intended about the spirit that lies behind contemporary feminism. Michelle Malone (Can you imagine her waving this thing while singing Carnival? INHOUSE "Like, I'd walk in and do an interview and they said, 'Well, we'd love to add this song but we can't add you this week because we had a Tori Amos or because we added Tracy Chapman or because we added Sinad O'Connor,'" she recalls. Lilith Fair was a concert tour and travelling music festival, founded by Canadian musician Sarah McLachlan, Nettwerk Music Group's Dan Fraser and Terry McBride, and New York talent agent Marty Diamond. Mary Chapin Carpenter By Kate Friedman. This summers crop of big tours skews heavily male, particularly on the double-bill front. The bands are full of men, theres lots of males in the crew. Get 2022 tour dates, venue details, concert reviews, photos and more at Bandsintown. Buy tickets for Lilith Fair concerts near you. Boxscore, which compiles weekly concert grosses, reports that about midway through its 1998 dates, Lilith Fair had grossed just over $6 million and remained the top-grossing summer concert. Facebook Twitter Email. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. July 5, 2017. Cling Lilith Fair '98 manages to evade the issue. Wild Strawberries Founded by singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan and friends, it featured a lineup of female solo artists and bands led. Liz Phair, Bonnie Raitt, Lauryn Hill of the Fugees, Sinead O'Connor, Paula Cole, Mono, Lucinda Williams, Erykah Badu and a host of other female artists will join founder Sarah McLachlan for this year's edition of the Lilith Fair touring festival, it was announced at a press conference at the El Rey Theatre in Los Angeles today (April 16). In the late 1990s, the all-female Lilith Fair marked a seminal moment for women in pop music, selling 1.5 million tickets and helping launch Sarah McLachlan to superstardom. Emmylou Harris ", It was partly the demands of Sarah McLachlan's own celestial career that brought an end to Lilith Fair. The artists appearing at Lilith Fair varied by date (with McLachlan the only artist to play all dates). McLachlan said that some of the same artists who appeared on last year's tour will play different cities on this year's schedule. 1 single without a recording contract ("Stay") subsequently got signed and released a couple of albums, which have done well. Dormant since 1999, the Lilith Fair-- an all-female package tour -- is returning this summer, and is booked for the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel on July 31.The lineup will include Sarah . I remember when I started in the early Eighties, I was always the only girl in the room. 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