Uploaded September 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The untold story of the groundbreaking all-women music festival, started by singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan in the late 1990s.

McLachlan was climbing the charts and selling records, but everyone in the industry told her no one would buy tickets to an all-female show. She ignored them all and, in 1996, brought Paula Cole on tour as her opening act. It went so well McLachlan decided to organize a festival that featured women-led bands and solo female artists.

Drawing on more than 600 hours of archival footage, the new documentary Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery tells the story of the groundbreaking concert tour.

Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery (2025)
Directed by Ally Pankiw

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