In 1997, the musician Sarah McLachlan did something revolutionary: She sold promoters on an all-female music festival in an era when radio DJs wouldn’t play women artists back-to-back and venues ...

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 ...

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 ...