The premise of Lilith Fair was simple: Make female musicians matter. In the late 1990s, with radio programmers refusing to play songs from female artists in succession and concert promoters reluctant ...

In 1997, Grammy Award-winning artist Sarah McLachlan started Lilith Fair, an all-women music festival meant to celebrate female artists during a time when radio stations would not play two women back ...

Music festivals are often filled with dudes, dudes and more dudes. In the late '90s, a group of organizers tried something different - put women first. Industry insiders said, not a chance this will ...