All-male acts make up two-thirds of music festivals, which women often feel unsafe attending. America needs a femme show again.
of Lilith Fair, co-authored by music critic and writer Jessica Hopper, McLachlan first conducted a test-run in 1996, playing four shows alongside fellow flourishing artists like Vega, Tracy Chapman, and Paula Cole. Inevitably, McLachlan’s hypothesis that strength in numbers sold proved substantive. Each date sold thousands of tickets and easily drew crowds with little to no promotion, from the Heartland to the Pacific coast. “People were saying, ‘You can’t do that.
in a recent phone call. “These women were really being kept from capitalizing on their careers and connecting with their fans by the industry writ-large. And so, they go out, they show that they are basically in a giant gang together, they don’t give a shit what you think, they’re gonna go on this tour, and it’s going to make more money than anything but Garth Brooks in the nineties.”
they go out, they show that they are basically in a giant gang together, they don’t give a shit what you think, they’re gonna go on this tour, and it’s going to make more money than anything but Garth Brooks in the nineties. Soon after, McLachlan and two dozen others began to conceptualize Lilith, forming a setlist that would draw anyone from a weathered, working-class white woman from Ohio to a queer Black Gen-Xer from Washington state. It was anything but easy, and artists were skeptical.
“There was definitely a lot more divide between the genres, and there was some real skepticism from people who were more within the R&B world,” said Hopper. “But the Indigo Girls did tell me a story: About midway though the first tour, they sat down with Sarah and were like, ‘You really have to double-down on your efforts to make this more diverse and more inclusive for different kinds of artists.’ And they really advocated for that.
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