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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. It took place during the summers of 1997 to 1999, and was revived in the summer of 2010.
Jul 5, 2022 · It was July 5th 1997: Opening night of the groundbreaking all-female music festival Lilith Fair. The lineup featured a who's who of female alternative musicians of the moment: Sheryl Crow, Jewel,...
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Jul 24, 2017 · 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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- Suzanne Vega was the 1st performer on Lilith Fair's mainstage at the very first show. I was the first one on the main stage [at the Gorge Amphitheater in Washington State].
- Folk singer Victoria Williams's multiple sclerosis didn't prevent her from performing. She had tremors in her body. She was standing by the side of the stage, and Bonnie Raitt said, "Hey, you want to come out?"
- Tool's Maynard James Keenan made sure to insert himself into the Lilith Fair history. "I asked our booking agent to request an offer to play. He did. They declined.
- Chrissie Hynde and Sheryl Crow basically disguised themselves as Wayne and Garth. "I used to go out and watch other bands. Chrissie Hynde and I would put on these hats that had wigs attached to them, and we would go sit out front and no one would recognize us," Crow said.
Sep 30, 2019 · Lilith Fair was glimpsing a possible future in which women were rightfully placed at music’s center and not its margins. Yet two decades later, even as artists like Haim and Brandi Carlile cite...
May 31, 2024 · Lilith Fair came during a period of critical and commercial prosperity for female artists in a number of traditionally male-dominated genres like rock, folk and that wide-ranging radio format...
Jul 13, 2022 · Riding the wave of the woman-friendly alternative-rock surge of the mid-to-late-1990s, Lilith Fair sold-out amphitheaters coast-to-coast, forging opportunities for female artists, and inspiring...
