Deni Bonet Frankly Scarlet Meredith Brooks Shocked" Apr 17, 1998 12:00am PT Lilith's L.A. lineup set McLachlan, Merchant among performers. One ancient tablet recovered in Syria and dated to the seventh century B.C.E. Catie Curtis 12 Photos from the 1998 Lilith Fair, the Best Festival Fashion Ever Erykah Badu, Liz Phair, Missy Elliott, Paula Cole and more performed at the best Lilith Fair ever. McLachlan was joined at the press conference by Raitt, Liz Phair, Paula Cole and others. Songkick is the first to know of new tour announcements and concert information, so if your favorite artists are not currently on tour, join Songkick to track . 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. So the beginning of this was just born out of a desire to come together as a community. Dayna Manning Mudgirl What's more, the music industry had undergone a seismic change over a decade. Still, its rah-rah spirit was met with very justified criticism. ), Missy Elliott performing in the infamous trash bag suit. Jewel Mary Jane Lamond Indigo Girls Pine Knob Music Theater's concert list along with photos, videos, and setlists of their past concerts & performances. (SOUNDBITE OF TV SHOW, "BEHIND THE MUSIC") JIM FORBES: Sheryl Crow . 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. 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. Fiona Apple Center: a Lilith Fair crowd. By Richard Skanse. With Sarah McLachlan, Amy Ray, Emily Saliers, Jewel. The artists appearing at Lilith Fair varied by date (with McLachlan the only artist to play all dates). By Kate Friedman. Because we outdrew all of those festivals back in 97, 98 and 99. 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. 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. Meredith Brooks Tiny sunnies came home to her favorite room! Fleming and John Susanna Hoffs The festival expanded from 37 shows to 57 shows, expanding its lineup to include more than 100 artists across three stages. INHOUSE 1 single without a recording contract ("Stay") subsequently got signed and released a couple of albums, which have done well. At the Gorge, the main stage also includes Tracy Chapman, Jewel, Paula Cole and Suzanne Vega. Jenny Labow Autour de Lucie 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. "And Lilith Fair is almost like, 'Here's your compilation of every every wild idea that women had in music in the '90s.' 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. 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. 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 . Send us a tip using our anonymous form. 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. Wild Strawberries Alisha's Attic . Almost all Village Stage artists performed only one or two dates. Julie Kryk Sarah Bettens from Ks Choice in a floral slipdress and sneakers. ' In the years that followed, Liliths main-stage roster included genre-defying musicians like Neneh Cherry and Erykah Badu, as well as R&B upstarts like Monica and Mya; then-nascent pop stars like Nelly Furtado and Christina Aguilera played the Village Stage, as did folk performers like Tegan and Sara and Lori McKennna. Sarah Ann McLachlan OC OBC (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Eden White 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. 2023 Viacom International Inc. All Rights Reserved. The artists appearing at Lilith Fair varied by date (with McLachlan the only artist to play all dates). 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. And then we noticed that the record company [was] primarily male, and then the more success we had, I started to notice that the playlists at radio were generally male and they wouldnt place [women] back to back. Luscious Jackson Syd Straw Anggun Sarah McLachlan said that's exactly what Lilith Fair was always supposed to achieve. 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. " Contents Lilith as Adam's First Wife Anti-Lilith Amulets and Incantation Bowls From Outcast to Feminist Icon Lilith as Adam's First Wife To see more, visit https://www.npr.org. 4 talking about this. 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. Suzanne Vega The only actual scriptural reference to Lilith is in Isaiah 34:14. McLachlan brought Lilith Fair back in 1998 and 1999. 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 . Mary Lou Lord McLachlan later speculated that, much like herself, Lilith's original audience had developed a different set of priorities. Autour de Lucie Founded by singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan and friends, it featured a lineup of female solo artists and bands led. 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Jabber Suz Andreasen 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. My lawyer was a woman. Lilith temporary tattoos available in the merchandse section of the official lilith site. Get notified whenever Lilith Fair announces a live stream or a concert in your area. It was July 5th 1997: Opening night of the groundbreaking all-female music festival Lilith Fair. Liliths 1997 edition brought in $16 million across its 37 North American dates, and it performed well in the two years that followed. Abra Moore Neneh Cherry [2] McLachlan followed this success with two more rounds, in 1998 and 1999. Erykah Badu performing in a raffia coat, in Mountain View (above) and Pasadena (below). 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. It's success upended concert industry norms and created a new place where female artistry could evolve and flourish. India Arie Nor did we, quite frankly. Missy Elliot, dressed in an outrageous bubble costume, performing at Jones Beach during Lilith Fair, 1998. Many of them won slots on the bill in a series of local talent searches in their home cities. I was consciously moving in that direction.. It presented itself as the softer, feminist alternative to the machismo of all-male rock tours. Garrison Starr The rest is told in his gripping visuals, The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist. Nina Storey Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women In Music, a double-CD set of performances from last year's tour, will be released April 28 on the Arista label. Victoria Williams One winner of last night's Lilith Fair Acoustic Talent Search "played" a tiny toy guitar equipped with prerecorded heavy metal solos. Sarah McLachlan and Friends Announce Lineup for the Final Lilith Fair. Main stage artists Abra Moore I think [the rejections were] partly because they didnt know who we were, they didnt know what we were capable of. Back then everybody was really surprised about how successful [Lilith was], and how many tickets we could actually draw, says Nettwerk Management president Dan Fraser, who organized Lilith Fair alongside McLachlan, Nettwerk Music Group CEO Terry McBride and McLachlans then-manager Marty Diamond. Tracy Bonham "It looks like I'm gonna be the den mother to you guys," Raitt said at one point. Wild Colonials Sarah McLachlan unexpectedly hit the financial jackpot when she launched Lilith Fair in 1997. (And that word is on our banned list, so you know we mean it!) (Full disclosure/humblebrag: I went. The digital music era meant that audiences were now discovering new music online, rather than on touring festival lineups. And were all having a good time, too. Its not exclusionary. ", 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. McLachlan, a Canadian balladeer with two Grammy Awards, headlined each festival, but the rest of the lineup varied from singer-songwriters like Fiona Apple to hip-hop artists like Missy Elliott. Shawn Colvin The Cardigans Mary Black Were just celebrating women. Buy tickets for Lilith Fair concerts near you. Jill Sobule Initially, Sarah McLachlan claimed (in an interview posted on the Arizona Republic website on July 9) that the July 8 Phoenix show was cancelled in protest of Arizona Senate Bill 1070, which she strongly opposes. It was July 5th 1997: Opening night of the groundbreaking all-female music festival Lilith Fair. Its artists who have had, or who we think will have, an impact on music.. Variety is a part of Penske Media Corporation. Billie Myers (OhmygodImsosorry.). Ann Powers says yes. Erin Echo Paula Cole Even in its first year, Lilith Fair's lineup was a who's who of female alternative rock artists. ), 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. [5] Appearances were organized into three stages. AT THE LILITH FAIR, FEMININE MYSTIQUE - The Washington Post By Rachel Warren July 20, 1998 She wasn't hard to spot, that Lilith. Julianne Blue Pat Benatar Liz Phair Rose Polenzani Lilith Fair will play multiple nights in Seattle, San Francisco, Detroit, New York, Houston, Toronto, Milwaukee and Washington. "[Lilith Fair] was sort-of like this little creature that grew wings and took off," McLachlan said at the press conference, referring to Lilith Fair's debut tour in 1997. 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. (Can you imagine her waving this thing while singing Carnival? Suzanne Vega Chantal Kreviazuk was similarly star-struck when she first played Lilith Fair in 1998. Joy Askew Lilith Fair '98 manages to evade the issue. The eclectic group of women artists included folk, rock, country and pop musicians and sold out nearly every single show its first year. N'Dea Davenport For the artists and fans who experienced it, Lilith Fair felt revolutionary. Roadie Ray 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. Appearances were organized into three stages. 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 1998: Portland: Sinad O'Connor (main performer) Sarah McLachlan (main performer) Natalie Merchant (main performer) Indigo Girls (main performer) (show 6 more) Civic Stadium in Portland, Oregon, United States; 1998-06-19: Lilith Fair 1998: George, 1st show: Sheryl Crow (main performer) 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. It just felt like the Nineties was a time when there was a shift. Lilith Fair 1998. Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music: Directed by Buffy Childerhose, Alex Jamison. 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. Lilith Fair 1998. 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. Cling Fisher, Village Stage artists 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 . September '67 Some information may no longer be current. We were not a white chick folk fest, which was what we were labeled the first year, says McLachlan. Ali Eisner In 1997, Lilith Fair garnered a $16 million gross, making it the top-grossing of any touring festival. Dead Girls and Other Camille Joan Osborne 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. 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. Then, before Lilith Fair's 1999 tour, McLachlan announced that after the year's scheduled performances . This summers crop of big tours skews heavily male, particularly on the double-bill front. 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. 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. Shawn Colvin. Litany Select from premium Lilith Fair of the highest quality. In 1997, Sarah McLachlan. The bands are full of men, theres lots of males in the crew. Its inclusive. Photograph from the Hulton Archive via Getty Images. My artist can play in front of a new audience and get a whole new audience. Appearances were organized into three stages. The artists appearing at Lilith Fair varied by date (with McLachlan and Suzanne Vega the only artists to play all dates). 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. 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. 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. Girl Power! ", It was partly the demands of Sarah McLachlan's own celestial career that brought an end to Lilith Fair. Letters to Cleo After the first year, it was much easier to get artists, because managers looked at us and would say, This is a great bridge. Appearances were organized into three stages. April 28, 1999. We're looking back to see where the stars of . 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. Copyright 2022 NPR. In 1996, Canadian musical artist Sarah McLachlan became frustrated with concert promoters and radio stations that refused to feature two female musicians in a row. . Read Next: Brit Beat: BRIT Awards Boss Hopes for Higher Representation of Women; Wet Legs Label Looks at Longue-Term Success, New Jersey Gov. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. 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.. Below is a list of artists who performed at Lilith Fair in the 2010 revival. The Nields Paula Cole (Later that summer, I saw Britney Spears perform at the same outdoor venue, the Polaris Amphitheater in Columbus, Ohio, and she had only a handful of costume changesalthough, she wore as many belly-baring shirts as five of the Lilith performers combined.). Michelle Malone . Photograph by Tim Mosenfelder for Getty Images. Mono "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. 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]. Were going strong 16 years later. 5:31 PM. Sarah McLachlan and Friends Announce Lineup for the Final Lilith Fair. Joan Osborne In 1997, Sarah McLachlan gathered a folksy coven of women singer-songwriters for a summer of girl power awesomeness called Lilith Fair. Anglique Kidjo Many of them won slots on the bill in a series of local talent searches in their home cities. Patty Griffin She says it upended longstanding presumptions that audiences wouldn't connect with the femininity and eclecticism of an all-female music festival. Gordian Knot Patty Griffin Lilith is mentioned at least four times in the Babylonian Talmud. It worked better than anyone expected, as Lilith Fair became the hippest and most successful package tour of the year. "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. 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. At least one of their appearances togetherin Vancouver, on September 14, 1996went by the name "Lilith Fair" and included performances by McLachlan, Cole, Lisa Loeb, and Michelle McAdorey, formerly of Crash Vegas. "I started at Berklee College of Music, where. 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. So Lilith's 35-city tour, featuring McLachlan, Crow, Tracey Chapman, Jewel, and more than 60 other female acts, was unprecedented. Almost all Village Stage artists performed only one or two dates. The other wore a baby . Thornetta Davis Sherri Jackson So McLachlan started to fundraise and work with performers to join her on stage before launching Lilith in the summer of 1997. Share. Tara MacLean Our mission is great music being made by women. Kelly Willis Elise Knoll The lettuce is Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, Keith Urban and artists like that. 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