July 5, 1997 - Sarah McLachlan - a podcast by Stephen Hammond

First all-women’s Lilith Fair concert opened by Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan. God created Eve only after Adam’s first wife, Lilith, stomped out of the Garden of Eden to protest Adam’s order that she submit to him. At least, that’s the story according to the Rabinic Talmud. Many centuries later, when promoters told Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan that a women’s concert would never sell, she stomped off to create one anyway. She called it the Lilith Fair, tested the event in 1996, and it opened full-tilt on July 5, 1997. Lilith Fair featured some of the word’s biggest-name female vocalists such as Sheryl Crow, Nellie Furtado, Holly Cole, Bonnie Rate, Sinéad O’Connor, Queen Latifah, the Dixie Chicks and the Indigo Girls. It was such an enormous success that it toured numerous American cities for three years. Since then, women performers and all female bands, sometimes know as “girl bands” have prospered throughout the world of entertainment.

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