Sarah McLachlan香蕉视频直播檚 legendary all-female music festival Lilith Fair is getting the documentary treatment.
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Lilith Fair was a major cultural movement of the late 1990s led by McLachlan and her team as an answer to the male-dominated industry of the era and its tendency to limit the number of women on a concert bill.
The all-female touring showcase started as a 1996 test run of four concerts with only McLachlan and Paula Cole. By the next year, it had blossomed into a full-scale tour with Sheryl Crow, Jewel, Indigo Girls and an array of other female musicians. The second year香蕉视频直播檚 lineup included Bonnie Raitt and Erykah Badu.
All those performers reflect on their Lilith Fair memories in the documentary, as do younger artists influenced by the movement, including Brandi Carlile and Olivia Rodrigo.
The Lilith Fair production was inspired by the 2019 Vanity Fair article 香蕉视频直播淏uilding a Mystery: An Oral History of Lilith Fair,香蕉视频直播� and draws on more than 600 hours of archival footage, as well as interviews from fans and people who worked behind the scenes.
While the original Lilith Fair only ran for three summers, from 1997 to 1999, it香蕉视频直播檚 credited for driving conversations around female representation and drawing attention to newcomers that included Missy Elliott, Nelly Furtado and Dido.
It also sparked a media frenzy, with McLachlan appearing on the covers of Time magazine and Rolling Stone and drawing backlash in some circles for the concert tour香蕉视频直播檚 feminist goals.
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This marks Pankiw香蕉视频直播檚 first documentary and she says her goal is to offer 香蕉视频直播渁 deeper understanding of the festival to the young female, non-binary and queer musicians and music fans.香蕉视频直播�
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