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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.
Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, Volume 1 was released in 1998 and served as a fundraiser for Lifebeat and the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network. [1] The recording was produced by Terry McBride and compiled over four months, going through recordings spanning the entire festival.
Founded by McLachlan, McBride, Nettwerk co-owner Dan Fraser and New York talent agent Marty Diamond, Lilith Fair was the top-grossing festival tour of 1997 and ranked 16th among the year's Top 100 Tours. In 1998, Lilith Fair grossed just over $6 million and remained the top-grossing summer concert package tour of the season. [15]
Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan reflects on festival tour's legacy & what still needs to be done to bring more equality for women musicians 25 years since Lilith Fair: The legacy of women in ...
July 5 – The first Lilith Fair tour kicks off at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington. Sarah McLachlan, Tracy Chapman and Jewel are among the performers. July 15–20 – The second Yoyo A Go Go punk and indie rock festival opens in Olympia, Washington. August 3 – The Black Crowes perform their last show with Johnny Colt and Marc Ford.
This was a decade bookended by riot grrrl’s feminist-punk energy and the neopagan, earth mother ethos of Lilith Fair; goth girls synthesized aspects of both movements, white magic and white-hot ...
Perrault's French fairy tales, for example, were collected more than a century before the Grimms' and provide a more complex view of womanhood. But as the most popular, and the most riffed-on, the Grimms' are worth analyzing, especially because today's women writers are directly confronting the stifling brand of femininity they proliferated.
In 1999, she won the Lilith Fair contest in Seattle, appearing on that concert's village stage, where she performed alongside Sarah McLachlan and Sheryl Crow. Her popularity further increased when she won Seattle's Battle of the Girlbands in 2003, which was a contest put on by a local mainstream FM radio station, 106.1 KISS FM.