11 years ago, Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan founded a touring music festival to raise money for a number of Women’s charities across North America. The festival was called Lilith Fair and it played many US venues and a few Canadian ones as well; the festival took place during the summer of 1997 and happened up until 1999. The festival consisted of only female solo artists and female fronted groups such as, Sarah McLachlan, Tracy Chapman, Jewel, Paula Cole, and Lisa Loeb.
Personally, I didn’t care when I had first heard about the festival as I wasn’t ever a big Easy Listening fan, so when I heard that it was making a comeback this year I didn’t have any interest in looking into it. When curiousity got the best of me, I was shocked. Instead of boring, folk-pop-faux-feminists headlining the tour, the line-up was consisted of some examples of modern versions of what the original festivals should have been made up of during the post-riot grrl era during which they originally took place.
Some of the most exciting acts performing at Lilith Fair this year are:
- Cat Power
- Corinne Bailey Rae
- Emmylou Harris
- Erykah Badu
- Go-Gos
- Gossip
- Loretta Lynn
- Mary J. Blige
- Metric
- Norah Jones
- Tegan and Sara
For the complete list of artists performing on this tour click here.
Although the line-up consists of some of the artists that originally disinterested me, new additions (such as Gossip, Cat Power, Tegan and Sara and Metric) make the festival almost worth seeing and a pretty good fit among the other 2010 summer festivals. For the complete list of tour dates and venues click here.
