Appearances were organized into three stages. McLachlan later speculated that, much like herself, Lilith's original audience had developed a different set of priorities. Main stage artists Vogue mentioned the festival in a cheeky charticle in the August 1998 issue, depicting the Lilith Fair-goer as a granola girl who attended UC Berkeley, carried a hemp book bag, and wore Missoni . In the lead-up to its second year, McLachlan worked with organizers to intentionally add more artists of color to the ticket: Erykah Badu and Queen Latifah joined the main stage for Lilith's second year, along with up-and-coming Missy Elliott, who made her debut live performance at Lilith Fair in a giant vinyl trash-bag-inspired suit. By 1998, the organizers of Lilith had more money to work with, and could point to the marked success of the previous summer. Last.fm concert page for Lilith Fair at Gorge Amphitheatre (George) on June 20, 1998. Lilith Fair ended up with $16 million in ticket sales that year, making it the top-grossing festival tour of 1997. This all-female lineup provided an alternative to male-dominated tours like Lollapalooza and Ozzfest, attracting many womenand even some mento Lilith Fair's sense of a female . Lilith Fair 2010 Dates with Lineup/Venue Details Fri, Jul 2 Portland, OR The Amphitheatre at Clark County Sat, Jul 3 George, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre Sat, Jul 17 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank . All Rights reserved. Its like, Oh, this would be great to do this again. Thats what music does. Shawn Colvin Our mission is great music being made by women. Joy Askew As she explained to Glamour, she was headlining the tour and working with many of the same behind-the-scenes coordinators who had helped manage previous tours. 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.". And I get to see that every day now. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. 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. Product description. Lilith Fair The main stage, September 22, 1998, Tweeter Center, Mansfield, Massachusetts 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. McLachlan brought Lilith Fair back in 1998 and 1999. The tours were legendary, as they should be., Lilith came to a close in 1999, and its attempted return in 2010 proved frustrating, with 10 canceled dates and performers like Kelly Clarkson dropping out. In 1997, Sarah McLachlan. The seeds of Lilith were planted in 1996, when McLachlan played a handful of shows with all-woman-fronted bills that included Cole, Loeb and Suzanne Vega. By 1998, the organizers of Lilith had more money to work with, and could point to the marked success of the previous summer. Photograph by Tim Mosenfelder for Getty Images. McLachlan still has people asking her to bring Lilith back. Jewel Jul 18, 1998 Merriweather Post Pavilion Columbia, Maryland, United States Litany "A lot of the young women who came to Lilith back then now have kids at home, have busy careers," she told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2012. And I have to have a life. 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. 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. The festival expanded from 37 shows to 57 shows, expanding its lineup to include more than 100 artists across three stages. Patty Griffin Nina Storey Girl Power! 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. The Cardigans And it was more like, 'What can you make me feel?'". And Im now running a company. The Vancouver-based Grammy . Musicians were styled more personally, less in the hands of major designers and more in the service of artistic expression; and at Lilith, most were more concerned with keeping cool than looking it. The festival ran from 1997-1999, with one revival tour in 2010. The tour was plagued with financial problems from the beginning. Wild Colonials It makes no reference to Adam. Right now, the only woman in its top 10 is Rihanna, who appears on DJ Khaleds massive Santana-sampling hit Wild Thoughts; the highest-placing female solo artist is Julia Michaels, whose hazy Issues is at Number 20 and has been bobbing around the lower reaches of the Top 20 for a few weeks. It refers to Lilith as being among the beasts of prey and spirits that will lay waste to the land on the day of vengeance. We want to hear it. includes a chilling plea to be spared the wrath of the black-winged demon: " O flyer in a dark chamber, go away at once, O Lili! 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. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "BEHIND THE MUSIC") JIM FORBES: Sheryl Crow . Ticket prices had also increased, with some Lilith VIP packages costing $750. The Indigo Girls: Amy Ray in a striped button-down and striped pants, and Emily Saliers in overalls. I found that actually to be a hard and fast rule at radio at the time [higher-ups] instructed their DJs not to play women back to back., That was a definite thing where in radio programming there was a quota on how many female artists could be played in any one-hour set, recalls Susanna Hoffs, who played on Liliths second stage in 1997 as a solo act and returned with the Bangles for its 2010 revival. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. Festival programmers challenged perceptions of Lilith Fair as a majority-white group of folk and alternative artists at a time when R&B, rap and hip-hop were gaining broader popularity. "Safe space is something that we're still trying to foster and kind of hold it up as an ideal, and it's like wait this was accomplished three summers in a row with the biggest names in music," she explains. Eden White Even in the Eighties, with the Bangles, journalists would tend to say, How do you feel about the Go-Gos? There werent many female bands, unfortunately, at that time, but still it always struck us.. Interview with Natalie Merchant on VH1's Lilith Fair Day - July 12, 1998 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. But wait a minute - it's a bunch of girls! Having a woman-centric (but not woman-exclusive) space bucked music-business convention in a way that surprised observers. 7/7/98: Clarkston, MI: Pine Knob Theatre / Lilith Fair (with Sinead O'Connor, Indigo Girls, Natalie Merchant and Sarah McLachlan) 7/8/98: Pine Knob Theatre / Lilith Fair (with T. Bonham, M'shell Ndegocello, Natalie Merchant and Sarah McLachlan) 7/10/98: Canadaigua, NY: Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center - Lilith . Instead, Lilith Fair 1998 features an ever-shifting lineup of 23 different performers at a given stop chosen from a group of more than 100 acts. Liliths many acts, which for the most part rotated in and out over the course of the tour, were scattered over three stages, including a Village Stage that focused on up-and-coming and local artists. The tomatoes of our salad are the females. Two years later, despite much-lauded releases by female solo artists like Miranda Lambert and Kelsea Ballerini, the country charts still skew heavily male. Paris Hampton It wasnt about exclusion, says McLachlan. Juliana Hatfield "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.' Her face was plastered on posters. 5:40 p.m. -- Lisa Loeb, the only artist to score a No. That says way more about you and your ego than anything else. But it was a question that got asked all the time, and it wasnt about that. ", It was partly the demands of Sarah McLachlan's own celestial career that brought an end to Lilith Fair. 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. Buy tickets for Lilith Fair concerts near you. Love Riot Chantal Kreviazuk The Lilith Fair featured a rotating line-up of 61 female artists. Lilith Fair '98 manages to evade the issue. After its third successful summer on the road, the 90's iteration of Lilith came to an end. Weve got 1,100 kids in the program. "I started at Berklee College of Music, where. Mudgirl The 1997 tour was one of the most popular of the year. (And that word is on our banned list, so you know we mean it!) Still, disorganization and shoddy financial management caused many artists including Kelly Clarkson and Norah Jones to drop out of shows at the last minute. Robyn Ragland The legacy of Lilith is kick-ass business, powerful music, a great example for girls to see women onstage, and the marriage of music and activism. The other really awful question that we got often was, Why do you hate men? And I said, What does celebrating women have to do with hating men? Center: a Lilith Fair crowd. Swamperella Almost all Village Stage artists performed only one or two dates. Looking back, did Lilith achieve what it set out to accomplish? Meredith Brooks The next year, McLachlan founded the Lilith Fair tour, taking Lilith from the Jewish lore that Lilith was Adam's first wife who refused to be subservient to him.[3]. Meredith Brooks To read the lineup now is to marvel that this was pulled off even then (bearing in mind, not every artist played every city): Lauryn Hill, whose groundbreaking The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was released at the end of that summer; Erykah Badu; Bonnie Raitt; Missy Elliott, at the peak of her collaboration with Timbaland; Sinead OConnor; Liz Phair; Lucinda Williams; Queen Latifah; the Indigo Girls; Natalie Merchant; Suzanne Vega; Meredith Brooks; Joan Osborne; Shawn Colvin; Lisa Loeb; MeShell Ndegeceollo; and more. ", June 19; Portland, Ore., Portland Meadows, June 20; George, Wash., The Gorge Amphitheatre, June 21; George, Wash., The Gorge Amphitheatre, June 23; Mountain View, Calif., Shoreline Amphitheatre, June 24; Mountain View, Calif., Shoreline Amphitheatre, June 28; Phoenix, Ariz., Blockbuster Desert Sky Pavilion, June 29; Albuquerque, N.M., New Mexico Festival, July 1; Oklahoma City, Okla., All Sports Stadium, July 2; Bonner Springs, Kan., Sandstone Amphitheatre, July 4; Indianapolis, Ind., Deer Creek Music Center, July 5; Columbus, Ohio, Polaris Amphitheatre, July 6; Detroit, Mich., Pine Knob Music Theatre, July 7; Detroit, Mich., Pine Knob Music Theatre, July 8; Detroit, Mich., Pine Knob Music Theatre, July 10; Rochester, N.Y., Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center, July 11; Hartford, Conn., Meadows Music Theatre, July 12; Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Saratoga Performing ArtsCenter, July 13; Holmdel, N.J., P.N.C. Lilith Fair ~ Lilith Fair: A Celebration Of W. Amazon.com. Alisha's Attic The digital music era meant that audiences were now discovering new music online, rather than on touring festival lineups. Alison Pipitone Lilith Fair was the culmination of a year of work by its founder, a Canadian singer-songwriter. It took place during the summers of 1997 to 1999, and was revived in the summer of 2010. Wild Strawberries Rebekah 1998 Lillith Fair Tour. I started a free music school for [at-risk] kids in Vancouver, which Ive been running and funding for the last 16 years. Her name was scribbled. Sarah McLachlan I was consciously moving in that direction.. ", "Some of these women were told by their agents, 'This is going to kill your career if you do this,'" says Hopper, referring to early industry doubts around the festival's founding. Lilith Fair Performers, Attendees Achieve Largest-Ever Synchronized Ovulation Published August 26, 1998 SALT LAKE CITY, UT-In what is believed to be the largest group ovulation in history, more than 20,000 Lilith Fair performers and attendees simultaneously released ova into their uteruses Tuesday. McLachlan conceived the package tour as a way to spotlight female musicians, particularly those that were from either the alt-pop or folk genres. 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. Lilith Fair founder McLachlan has continued to make a difference through her Sarah McLachlan School of Music, a free music and mentorship program for at-risk and underserved children and youth . Published December 11, 2009. Were gonna go over here and were gonna do it ourselves. After multiple stops in 2023 including exciting Lilith Fair shows in Houston, Worcester, Oxford and Englewood. Madeleine Peyroux Lori Amey 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. Morcheeba But as Lilith's popularity increased, critics disparaged the festival as "mom music" and called out its mostly white bill of performers. Holly McNarland It presented itself as the softer, feminist alternative to the machismo of all-male rock tours. Our intentions, in hindsight, werent really pure, says McLachlan. Dar Williams Editors picks 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. Many of them won slots on the bill in a series of local talent searches in their home cities. As it did last year, Lilith Fair will make donations to local chapters of the Breast Cancer Fund, Lifebeat, Planned Parenthood and RAINN. Gordian Knot Lori Carson Given the lineup at last year's Metallica-led Lollapalooza . 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. After the first year, it was much easier to get artists, because managers looked at us and would say, This is a great bridge. 2023 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved. Cling Lilith Fair at 20: The Legacy of a Tour That Put Women First, Skrillex Keeps the Energy Up and the Guest List Open on Quest for Fire, Caroline Polacheks Desire, I Want To Turn Into You Is An Impressive Pop-Science Flex, Sam Smiths Gloria Is Their Deepest Album Yet. Here at Shoreline, the headliners are McLachlan, the Indigo Girls, Merchant and Badu. The 100 Best Albums of 2022, We sort of became the antithesis of that, recalls McLachlan. K's Choice Lucy Gamelon "I can . Abra Moore Missy Elliot, dressed in an outrageous bubble costume, performing at Jones Beach during Lilith Fair, 1998. Why isnt Lauryn Hill or Missy Elliott on this? Tara MacLean 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. Chantal Kreviazuk was similarly star-struck when she first played Lilith Fair in 1998. Over the years, women in rock ideals have still largely focused on white cis-presenting singers, but female musicians, including female musicians of color as well as trans and non-binary artists, have released and been recognized for their vital music as well, from the bass-wielding funk explorer Esperanza Spalding to the thundering punk act Against Me! By that time, many stars could look back and point to Lilith Fair as a major catalyst for their success like Jewel, who graced the cover of Time Magazine in 1997 and sang the National Anthem at the 1998 Super Bowl. Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, a two-disc compilation album of live festival performances -- from the likes of Victoria Williams, Jewel, Shawn Colvin and, of course, the . Billie Myers Dido In 1997, Lilith Fair garnered a $16 million gross, making it the top-grossing of any touring festival. Sarah McLachlan unexpectedly hit the financial jackpot when she launched Lilith Fair in 1997. The artists appearing at Lilith Fair varied by date (with McLachlan and Suzanne Vega the only artists to play all dates). So thats a pretty cool legacy., Its one that reverberates far beyond music, too. I think [the rejections were] partly because they didnt know who we were, they didnt know what we were capable of. CREATIVE. Then, before Lilith Fair's 1999 tour, McLachlan announced that after the year's scheduled performances . Ebba Forsberg Facebook Twitter Email. And that was pretty much a fair indication of what it would be like going forward. 1/2 Mad Poet Get 2022 tour dates, venue details, concert reviews, photos and more at Bandsintown. . The all-women traveling tour, now in its second year and expected to be the most-attended music event of the year, announced its 57 dates and more than 50 participants Thursday at a press conference at the El Rey theater. Letters to Cleo 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. Indigo Girls Oh Suzanna . WUSF 89.7 depends on donors for the funding it takes to provide you the most trusted source of news and information here in town, across our state, and around the world. Tia Texada Lilith temporary tattoos available in the merchandse section of the official lilith site. Erykah Badu (left) and Shawn Colvin (right) performing at Lilith Fair on June 27th, 1998 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Victoria Williams Tracy Chapman was part of the very first tour in 1997. Hopefully Lilith Fair Tour will return for a new US tour next year and play again in Air Canada Centre, Beacon Theatre and David H. Koch Theater. People have been having babies and getting married and divorced, and I've missed it all.". Mary Lou Lord Pine Knob Music Theater's concert list along with photos, videos, and setlists of their past concerts & performances. Sister 7 Find Lilith Fair stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. So McLachlan started to fundraise and work with performers to join her on stage before launching Lilith in the summer of 1997. Beth Orton Almost all Village Stage artists performed only one or two dates. [2] Bucking conventional industry wisdom, she booked a successful tour for herself and Paula Cole. 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. Donna Martin One winner of last night's Lilith Fair Acoustic Talent Search "played" a tiny toy guitar equipped with prerecorded heavy metal solos. to the many instrumentalists who have backed up Beyonc over the course of her career, including the 10-piece collective Suga Mama, who played with her in the late 2000s. The musicians who appeared at Lilith - including Paula Cole, Lisa Loeb, Natalie Merchant and the Indigo Girls - were used to being in the minority. 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! Lilith Fair is sponsored by Biore, Royal Neighbors insurance, Starbucks Coffee, Tower Records and VH1. Neko Case By Kate Friedman. The Nields 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. Its artists who have had, or who we think will have, an impact on music.. I remember when I started in the early Eighties, I was always the only girl in the room. . Share the memories of this travelling music festival &. In 1997, Sarah McLachlan gathered a folksy coven of women singer-songwriters for a summer of girl power awesomeness called Lilith Fair. She says it upended longstanding presumptions that audiences wouldn't connect with the femininity and eclecticism of an all-female music festival. LF took place during the summers of '97, '98, '99, and was revived again 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. Susanna Hoffs The lineup featured a who's who of female alternative musicians of the moment: Sheryl Crow,. "Every city will get a different show," she said. Mono 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. And it became this we're going to break down some barriers. Gena and Sum Girl, July 5, 1997 Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA (Sarah McLachlan, Tracy Chapman, Jewel, Paula Cole & Suzanne Vega), July 6, 1997 L.B. Natalie Merchant, Second stage artists Lhasa de Sela Almost all Village Stage artists performed only one or two dates. "And in fact the opposite happened it minted stars. Apr 17, 1998 12:00am PT Lilith's L.A. lineup set McLachlan, Merchant among performers By Phil Gallo Sarah McLachlan will be joined by Natalie Merchant, Sheryl Crow, Erykah Badu, Indigo Girls. Ali Eisner ), And while concert fashion has been worth watching since the first man banged two sticks together on a stage and made someone dance, the late 90s, especially when it came to outdoor performances, was an especially rich time for artist attire. Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music: Directed by Buffy Childerhose, Alex Jamison. 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. And I enjoyed that. Prince showed up to see Sheryl Crow. 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). The artists appearing at Lilith Fair vary by date (with McLachlan the only artist to play all dates). Shocked" Clandestine Find tour dates and live music events for all your favorite bands and artists in your city. This article was published more than 13 years ago. 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. Nor did we, quite frankly. Concerts Wiki is a FANDOM Music Community. The schedule for the upcoming tour -- which will open in Portland, Ore., on June 19 and close in Vancouver, British Columbia, on August 31 -- was also announced. Lilith Fair, which arrived at the New World Music Theatre over the weekend, was billed as a "celebration of women in music." But the festival's organizer, Sarah McLachlan, insisted only an hour . Holly McNarland Shawn Colvin. [5] Appearances are organized into three stages. Concerts Wiki is a FANDOM Music Community. Lisa Loeb Sarah McLachlan Catherine Kidd Thats a beautiful legacy, and it was born out of, What does music mean to me? Music is about connecting and community and creating joy and creating love for music. You all inspired me to understand that I could actually do anything that I wanted to do. Lots of women would come up to me and say things like, You showed us that you were living your dream and you were succeeding at that, and it kind of opened up my eyes, that we could do whatever we wanted to do.'. Michelle Malone Morcheeba Fiona Apple The festival lasted three summers (and one revival in 2010) and raised more than $10 million for women's charities. "All of that second year, I think, is really significant because those were artists who were changing things in different worlds than the world that [McLachlan] occupies," says NPR Music critic Ann Powers, who attended all three summers of Lilith Fair. Unfortunately there are no concert dates for Lilith Fair scheduled in 2023. McLachlan and her partners ended up canceling the tour after only a few shows. The venture was also a smashing success, becoming the top-grossing festival of 1997. We're looking back to see where the stars of . Jenny Labow "And Lilith Fair is almost like, 'Here's your compilation of every every wild idea that women had in music in the '90s.' Abba Rage "And it was extremely frustrating. Many of them won slots on the bill in a series of local talent searches in their home cities. Tara MacLean "This is a snapshot of a huge array of what women were doing in music in this era when there was a lot of space and demand for women of all kinds to be taking risks in music," Powers says. Cassandra Wilson (Full disclosure/humblebrag: I went. July 5, 2017. Diana King My artist can play in front of a new audience and get a whole new audience. 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