Ive got a new record out and it worked last time. We didnt look at how all those women who came to the shows in the Nineties now have children and jobs and mortgages.. Paula Cole "And Lilith Fair is almost like, 'Here's your compilation of every every wild idea that women had in music in the '90s.' Appearances were organized into three stages. Lilith Fair: A Celebration of Women in Music, a two-disc compilation album of live festival performances -- from the likes of Victoria Williams, Jewel, Shawn Colvin and, of course, the . Cassandra Wilson In addition, she noted that last year's tour raised more than $700,000 for various causes and charities. The bands are full of men, theres lots of males in the crew. To read the lineup now is to marvel that this was pulled off even then (bearing in mind, not every artist played every city): Lauryn Hill, whose groundbreaking The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was released at the end of that summer; Erykah Badu; Bonnie Raitt; Missy Elliott, at the peak of her collaboration with Timbaland; Sinead OConnor; Liz Phair; Lucinda Williams; Queen Latifah; the Indigo Girls; Natalie Merchant; Suzanne Vega; Meredith Brooks; Joan Osborne; Shawn Colvin; Lisa Loeb; MeShell Ndegeceollo; and more. 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. I enjoyed the fact that we were doing something unique and different. INHOUSE In the mid-1990s female. KATE BUSH - THEM HEAVY PEOPLE LIVE (REVOLVER), KATE BUSH'S FIRST TV Kln Frechen Benzelrather Eisenbahn -Kite & Wuthering Heights LIVE, July 18-19, 1998 Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD. 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. Sarah McLachlan said that's exactly what Lilith Fair was always supposed to achieve. So the beginning of this was just born out of a desire to come together as a community. Were going strong 16 years later. 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. In 1997, Sarah McLachlan gathered a folksy coven of women singer-songwriters for a summer of girl power awesomeness called Lilith Fair. Many of them won slots on the bill in a series of local talent searches in their home cities. Antigone Rising After the first year, it was much easier to get artists, because managers looked at us and would say, This is a great bridge. I hate to use the word organic, but it did feel that way. You all inspired me to understand that I could actually do anything that I wanted to do. Lots of women would come up to me and say things like, You showed us that you were living your dream and you were succeeding at that, and it kind of opened up my eyes, that we could do whatever we wanted to do.'. So thats a pretty cool legacy., Its one that reverberates far beyond music, too. While its tempting to view analyses like the above as simple score-tallying, thinking about how women are presented in the pop landscape remains a worthy exercise 20 years after Lilith made its first go-round. While it isn't possible to condense all of Lilith Fair onto one DVD, I really wish this disc showed a wider range of performers. Lilith Fair was the culmination of a year of work by its founder, a Canadian singer-songwriter. For the artists and fans who experienced it, Lilith Fair felt revolutionary. Though Neneh Cherry and Lauryn Hill were scheduled to play some shows, both had to cancel. The lineup has stretched its boundaries but only by a fraction: New additions Liz Phair and Missy Elliott doubtlessly will offer a blast of unruly. Joy Askew I finally had an A&R person who was a woman. Abba Rage "It showed people models of possibility.". We want to hear it. This year's lineup, in fact, boasts the sort of diversity that McLachlan hungered for then. Shocked" 1/2 Mad Poet Lilith Fair is sponsored by Biore, Royal Neighbors insurance, Starbucks Coffee, Tower Records and VH1. Lovechild Morcheeba Abra Moore Tara MacLean One winner of last night's Lilith Fair Acoustic Talent Search "played" a tiny toy guitar equipped with prerecorded heavy metal solos. Neko Case The lettuce is Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, Keith Urban and artists like that. You may think. 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All Rights Reserved. Roadie Ray It just felt like the Nineties was a time when there was a shift. " Contents Lilith as Adam's First Wife Anti-Lilith Amulets and Incantation Bowls From Outcast to Feminist Icon Lilith as Adam's First Wife It consisted solely of female solo artists and female-led bands. Donna Martin Lilith Fair was the culmination of a year of work by its founder, a Canadian singer-songwriter. How come you dont have Courtney Love or 7 Year Bitch or Elastica? Lorraine Ali told Glamour last year, on the occasion of the festivals 20th anniversary. The Rose Bowl, perhaps the largest venue on the tour that includes shows July 15 and 16 at Jones Beach in New York, will be configured for a crowd of 40,000. The festival expanded from 37 shows to 57 shows, expanding its lineup to include more than 100 artists across three stages. Find tour dates and live music events for all your favorite bands and artists in your city. Main stage artists Club and theater tours are more balanced, with a few lady-forward bills traveling the country chugging indie rock act Waxahatchee is touring with Boston trio Palehound, while daughter of Lilith Michelle Branch is taking Brooklynites Haerts on the road but the overall idea of women as some sort of musical other that should be taken in regimented doses still prevails. Prince showed up to see Sheryl Crow. AT THE LILITH FAIR, FEMININE MYSTIQUE - The Washington Post By Rachel Warren July 20, 1998 She wasn't hard to spot, that Lilith. 1 single without a recording contract ("Stay") subsequently got signed and released a couple of albums, which have done well. 5:40 p.m. -- Lisa Loeb, the only artist to score a No. The only actual scriptural reference to Lilith is in Isaiah 34:14. Having a woman-centric (but not woman-exclusive) space bucked music-business convention in a way that surprised observers. Deni Bonet 5:31 PM. Musicians were styled more personally, less in the hands of major designers and more in the service of artistic expression; and at Lilith, most were more concerned with keeping cool than looking it. Lilith Fair '98 manages to evade the issue. Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Suzanne Vega and other Lilith Fair alums look back on the legacy of their groundbreaking women-centric fest. 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. Vogue mentioned the festival in a cheeky charticle in the August 1998 issue, depicting the Lilith Fair-goer as a granola girl who attended UC Berkeley, carried a hemp book bag, and wore Missoni . As of 2015, she had sold over 40 million albums worldwide. Lucinda Williams Letters to Cleo Joan Osborne The musicians who appeared at Lilith including Paula Cole, Lisa Loeb, Natalie Merchant and the Indigo Girls were used to being in the minority. Hopefully Lilith Fair Tour will return for a new US tour next year and play again in Air Canada Centre, Beacon Theatre and David H. Koch Theater. Lilith Fair, concert tour from 1997 - 99 & 2010. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards (out of four nominations) and four Juno Awards.In addition to her personal artistic efforts, she founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased female musicians. Alisha's Attic It connects us, it brings us closer to ourselves and to each other., There was word that initially an all-women tour wouldnt sell tickets, said Emily Saliers of folk duo Indigo Girls, who came up with the idea for the night-closing singalong, which would bring all the evenings performers onstage. My lawyer was a woman. Lhasa de Sela [2] McLachlan followed this success with two more rounds, in 1998 and 1999. Litany The Indigo Girls: Amy Ray in a striped button-down and striped pants, and Emily Saliers in overalls. Lilith Fair 2010 Dates with Lineup/Venue Details Fri, Jul 2 Portland, OR The Amphitheatre at Clark County Sat, Jul 3 George, WA The Gorge Amphitheatre Sat, Jul 17 Chicago, IL First Midwest Bank . Sarah McLachlan will be joined by Natalie Merchant, Sheryl Crow, Erykah Badu, Indigo Girls and Shawn Colvin on the mainstage when the Lilith Fair tour stops at the Rose Bowl June 27. Yung Chen Lhamo Its gonna be really fun. And it was., I guess it was a radical idea at the time, but I thought it was a good radical idea, recalls Merchant, who co-headlined the 1998 tour. After its third successful summer on the road, the 90's iteration of Lilith came to an end. Sarah McLachlan Center: a Lilith Fair crowd. Lisa Loeb By 1998, the organizers of Lilith had more money to work with, and could point to the marked success of the previous summer. Lilith Fair was a concert tour and traveling music festival, founded by musician Sarah McLachlan, that consisted solely of female solo artists and female-led bands, emerging and developing talent as well as established artists. Photograph by Steve Granitz for Getty Images. 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. Kim Fox Luscious Jackson Appearances were organized into three stages. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time Jewel Julianne Blue [2] Bucking conventional industry wisdom, she booked a successful tour for herself and Paula Cole. Lilith Fair 1998 | Concerts Wiki | Fandom Lilith Fair 1998 View source The artists appearing at Lilith Fair varied by date (with McLachlan the only artist to play all dates). Lilith Fair's second iteration faced several obstacles. 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. 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. Festival programmers challenged perceptions of Lilith Fair as a majority-white group of folk and alternative artists at a time when R&B, rap and hip-hop were gaining broader popularity. Natalie Merchant performs with a rhythmic gymnastic ribbon in a cardigan and pencil skirt. K's Choice Buy tickets for Lilith Fair concerts near you. Victoria Hogg By 1998, the organizers of Lilith had more money to work with, and could point to the marked success of the previous summer. Jul 18, 1998 Merriweather Post Pavilion Columbia, Maryland, United States Eden White Sarah Ann McLachlan OC OBC (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. 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. It just kind of happened. Frankly Scarlet We got a lot of artists we wanted last year. Patty Griffin Here is a selection of incredible shots from that yearwhat we certainly consider to be the Fairs best ever. Diana King 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. Mary Chapin Carpenter Lilith temporary tattoos available in the merchandse section of the official lilith site. The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time But then I found out who the other bands were on the bill that she was inviting, and I just wanted to be a part of [something with] those other musicians and they happened to be women. After multiple stops in 2023 including exciting Lilith Fair shows in Houston, Worcester, Oxford and Englewood. Holly Cole My artist can play in front of a new audience and get a whole new audience. In a new show, we kind of threw up the same model, which, you know, obviously in hindsight was quite stupid and it didn't get the audiences that we expected to get.". The artists appearing at Lilith Fair varied by date (with McLachlan the only artist to play all dates). For one, McLachlan was now the mother of two daughters and was busy finishing yet another album. Leah Andreone Paris Hampton The lineup featured a who's who of female alternative musicians of the moment: Sheryl Crow, Jewel, The Indigo Girls, Lisa Loeb, Fiona Apple, Shawn Colvin, Tracy Chapman, Natalie Merchant and more. It took place during the summers of 1997 to 1999, and was revived in the summer of 2010. Its not being represented, so were filling that gap and were having a great time doing it., What does celebrating women have to do with hating men? Sarah McLachlan, I know as an artist, initially, I was hesitant to be a part of an all-women festival, because I dont like to separate myself out as a woman musician, says Lisa Loeb, who appeared on every year of Liliths Nineties incarnation. The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time The Tuesdays Joan Osborne McLachlan said that some of the same artists who appeared on last year's tour will play different cities on this year's schedule. . Lilith Fair Celebrates Its 15th Anniversary. -1 Likes, 1 Comments - olivia sidman (@oliviasidmusic) on Instagram: "A bit late to the punch but here is my Spotify Wrapped. ", It was partly the demands of Sarah McLachlan's own celestial career that brought an end to Lilith Fair. (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.). Abra Moore Julie Kryk Clandestine Fleming and John Emm Gryner The artists appearing at Lilith Fair varied by date (with McLachlan and Suzanne Vega the only artists to play all dates). And were all having a good time, too. Its not exclusionary. It felt that it was a natural thing that we all got to participate in something that was way bigger than ourselves. The artists appearing at Lilith Fair varied by date (with McLachlan the only artist to play all dates). Still, disorganization and shoddy financial management caused many artists including Kelly Clarkson and Norah Jones to drop out of shows at the last minute. [6] Almost all Village Stage artists performed only one or two dates. Anglique Kidjo Tracy Bonham In 1997, Lilith Fair garnered a $16 million gross, making it the top-grossing of any touring festival. Nor did we, quite frankly. Tia Texada McLachlan was joined at the press conference by Raitt, Liz Phair, Paula Cole and others. ' 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. So McLachlan started to fundraise and work with performers to join her on stage before launching Lilith in the summer of 1997. Tracy Bonham, Second stage artists And Im now running a company. In its initial three years, Lilith Fair raised over $10 million for charity.[1]. Wild Colonials Vancouver. And I have to have a life. Indigo Girls Our mission is great music being made by women. Beth Orton The first seven shows were sparsely attended and the eighth show was the first to be cancelled. [Men would ask], Why dont you have men on the tour? And I said, Well, honey, we do. 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. Why isnt Lauryn Hill or Missy Elliott on this? "Like, I'd walk in and do an interview and they said, 'Well, we'd love to add this song but we can't add you this week because we had a Tori Amos or because we added Tracy Chapman or because we added Sinad O'Connor,'" she recalls. I started at Berklee College of Music, where the ratio of men to women was about 13 to one, recalls Cole. 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. Given the lineup at last year's Metallica-led Lollapalooza . Rose Polenzani Concerts Wiki is a FANDOM Music Community. The lineup featured a who's who of female alternative musicians of the moment: Sheryl Crow,. I remember at the time thinking, in my snarky, rock-critic-y way, Why does this have to be so crunchy and folky? Fisher, Village Stage artists [2] Among all concert tours for that year, it was the 16th-highest grossing. Suzanne Vega Even in its first year, Lilith Fair's lineup was a who's who of female alternative rock artists. 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. Nina Storey The organizers of the 2010 Lilith Fair initially one of the most-anticipated tours of the summer have just announced the cancellation of 10 dates: Salt Lake City, Montreal, Raleigh . I was at the Juno Awards, recalls McLachlan, and this woman, she was probably close to 40, came up to me and said, You know, I was at Lilith, all three of them, when I was a teenager. Lhasa de Sela 1998 Lillith Fair Tour. 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Camille While the nostalgic view of the Nineties paints it as a decade where not just female-fronted, but female-populated acts surged on the pop and rock charts, Liliths presence bucked music-industry norms that were still, quietly but firmly, directing radio playlists and tour routing. Queen Latifah The tour was plagued with financial problems from the beginning. The festival lasted three summers (and one revival in 2010) and raised more than $10 million for women's charities. Autour de Lucie Davina Or English singer Dido, whose song "Thank you" was featured in movie soundtracks and sampled in Eminem's award-winning single "Stan. Alana Davis 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. Editors picks Elise Knoll Lilith Fair will play multiple nights in Seattle, San Francisco, Detroit, New York, Houston, Toronto, Milwaukee and Washington. "Safe space is something that we're still trying to foster and kind of hold it up as an ideal, and it's like wait this was accomplished three summers in a row with the biggest names in music," she explains. People have been having babies and getting married and divorced, and I've missed it all.". includes a chilling plea to be spared the wrath of the black-winged demon: " O flyer in a dark chamber, go away at once, O Lili! McLachlan brought Lilith Fair back in 1998 and 1999. The Lilith Fair featured a rotating line-up of 61 female artists. Emmylou Harris Natalie Merchant Get concert tickets, news and RSVP to . Liliths many acts, which for the most part rotated in and out over the course of the tour, were scattered over three stages, including a Village Stage that focused on up-and-coming and local artists. Sherri Jackson 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. Mary Chapin Carpenter Liz Phair Gordian Knot Lilith is mentioned at least four times in the Babylonian Talmud. The rest is told in his gripping visuals, The Exhibit: Finding the Next Great Artist. (Full disclosure/humblebrag: I went. Her response? Natalie Merchant, Second stage artists But in 2010, McLachlan tried to get Lilith off the ground again, turning to former festival favorites such as Erykah Badu and Tegan and Sara. The lineup featured a who's who of female alternative musicians of the moment: Sheryl Crow, Jewel, The Indigo Girls, Lisa Loeb, Fiona Apple, Shawn Colvin, Tracy Chapman, Natalie Merchant and more. McLachlan still has people asking her to bring Lilith back. 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. Susanna Hoffs Lilith Fair at 20: The Legacy of a Tour That Put Women First, Skrillex Keeps the Energy Up and the Guest List Open on Quest for Fire, Caroline Polacheks Desire, I Want To Turn Into You Is An Impressive Pop-Science Flex, Sam Smiths Gloria Is Their Deepest Album Yet. 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. Gena and Sum Girl, July 5, 1997 Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA (Sarah McLachlan, Tracy Chapman, Jewel, Paula Cole & Suzanne Vega), July 6, 1997 L.B. Its artists who have had, or who we think will have, an impact on music.. With Sarah McLachlan, Amy Ray, Emily Saliers, Jewel. Syd Straw Imani Coppola Ebba Forsberg Below is a list of artists who performed at Lilith Fair in the 2010 revival. 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. "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. Idina Menzel, June 19, 1998 Civic Stadium, Portland, OR (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Erykah Badu & Sinead O'Connor), June 20-21, 1998 Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Erykah Badu & (20th) MeShell Ndegeocello & (21st) Sinead O'Connor), June 23-24, 1998 Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Erykah Badu & MeShell Ndegeocello), June 26, 1998 Del Mar Fairgrounds, Del Mar, CA (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Erykah Badu & Shawn Colvin), June 27, 1998 Rose Bowl, Pasadena, CA (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Erykah Badu, Sinead O'Connor & Shawn Colvin), June 28, 1998 Desert Sky Pavilion, Phoenix, AZ (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Erykah Badu, Indigo Girls & Liz Phair), June 29, Bernalillo, NM (New Mexico Wine Festival, (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Sinead O'Connor & Liz Phair), July 1, 1998 All Sports Stadium, Oklahoma City, OK (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Sinead O'Connor & MeShell Ndegeocello), July 2, 1998 Sandstone Amphitheatre, Bonner Springs, KS (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Sinead O'Connor & MeShell Ndegeocello), July 4, 1998 Deer Creek Music Center, Noblesville, IN (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Sinead O'Connor & MeShell Ndegeocello), July 5, 1998 Polaris Amphitheater, Columbus, OH (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Sinead O'Connor & MeShell Ndegeocello), July 6-8, 1998 Pine Knob Music Theatre, Clarkston, MI (6th: Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Sinead O'Connor & MeShell Ndegeocello - 7th: Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Indigo Girls & Sinead O'Connor - 8th: Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, MeShell Ndegeocello & Tracy Bonham), July 10, 1998 Finger Lakes Performing Arts Center, Rochester, NY (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, MeShell Ndegeocello & Tracy Bonham), July 11, 1998 Meadows Music Theatre, Hartford, CT (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, MeShell Ndegeocello, Tracy Bonham & Suzanne Vega), July 12, 1998 Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, NY (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, MeShell Ndegeocello & Tracy Bonham), July 13, 1998 PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel, NJ (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Missy Elliott & Tracy Bonham), July 15-16, 1998 Jones Beach Theatre, Wantagh, NY (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Missy Elliott & (15th) Tracy Bonham & (16th) Liz Phair), July 17, 1998 Blockbuster-Sony E-Centre, Camden, NJ (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Missy Elliott & Liz Phair), July 18-19, 1998 Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Missy Elliott & Liz Phair), July 21, 1998 GTE Virginia Beach Amphitheatre, Virginia Beach, VA (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Missy Elliott & Suzanne Vega), July 22, 1998 Hardee's Walnut Creek Amphitheatre, Raleigh, NC (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Queen Latifah & Meredith Brooks), July 23, 1998 Blockbuster Pavilion, Charlotte, NC (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Queen Latifah & Meredith Brooks), July 24, 1998 Coca-Cola Lakewood Amphitheatre, Atlanta, GA (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Queen Latifah & Meredith Brooks), July 26, 1998 Coral Sky Amphitheatre, West Palm Beach, FL (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Queen Latifah & Meredith Brooks), July 27, 1998 Central Florida Fairgrounds, Orlando, FL (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Queen Latifah & Meredith Brooks), July 29-30, 1998 Woodlands Pavilion, The Woodlands, TX (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Erykah Badu & (29th) Meredith Brooks & (30th) Liz Phair), July 31, 1998 South Park Meadows, Austin, TX (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Erykah Badu & Liz Phair), August 1, 1998 Coca-Cola Starplex Amphitheatre, Dallas, TX (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Erykah Badu & Liz Phair), August 3, 1998 Starwood Amphitheatre, Antioch, TN (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Mary Chapin Carpenter & Liz Phair), August 4, 1998 Riverport Amphitheatre, Maryland Heights, MO (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Des'ree & Liz Phair), August 5, 1998 New World Music Theatre, Tinley Park, IL (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Liz Phair & Des'ree), August 6, 1998 Blossom Music Center, Cuyahoga Falls, OH (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Des'ree & Luscious Jackson), August 8, 1998 Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Emmylou Harris, Luscious Jackson & Des'ree), August 9, 1998 Star Lake Amphitheatre, Burgettstown, PA (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Emmylou Harris, Luscious Jackson & N'Dea Davenport), August 10, 1998 Hersheypark Stadium, Hershey, PA (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Emmylou Harris, Luscious Jackson & N'Dea Davenport), August 11-12, 1998 Great Woods Center, Mansfield, MA (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Emmylou Harris, Luscious Jackson & N'Dea Davenport), August 14, 1998 Lansdowne Park, Ottawa, ON (Sarah McLachlan, Paula Cole, Emmylou Harris, Diana Krall & N'Dea Davenport), August 15-16, 1998 Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto, ON (15th: Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Paula Cole, (15th) Emmylou Harris, (16th) Chantal Kreviazuk & Liz Phair), August 17, 1998 Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, Darien, NY (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Paula Cole, Emmylou Harris & Liz Phair), August 19-20, 1998 Marcus Amphitheater, Milwaukee, WI (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Paula Cole, Joan Osbourne & (19th) Liz Phair & (20th) Lisa Loeb), August 21, 1998 Canterbury Park, Shakopee, MN (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Paula Cole, Joan Osbourne & Lisa Loeb), August 23, 1998 Fiddler's Green Amphitheatre, Greenwood Village, MO (Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Paula Cole, Joan Osbourne, Cowboy Junkies & Lisa Loeb), August 25, 1998 The Canyons Wolf Mountain Ski Resort, Park City, UT (Sarah McLachlan, Paula Cole, Joan Osbourne, Cowboy Junkies & Lisa Loeb), August 26, 1998 Idaho Center Amphitheatre, Nampa, ID (Sarah McLachlan, Paula Cole, Joan Osbourne, Cowboy Junkies & Lisa Loeb), August 28, 1998 McMahon Stadium, Calgary, AB (Sarah McLachlan, Paula Cole, Cowboy Junkies, MeShell Ndegeocello & Lisa Loeb), August 29, 1998 Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, AB (Sarah McLachlan, Paula Cole, Cowboy Junkies, MeShell Ndegeocello & Lisa Loeb), August 31, 1998 Thunderbird Stadium, Vancouver, BC (Sarah McLachlan, Paula Cole, MeShell Ndegeocello, Diana Krall & Lisa Loeb). 10 million for charity. 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