A new documentary on Sarah McLachlan’s Lilith Fair tour is coming in September

The 90s were an amazing time for touring music festivals: Lollapalooza, Ozzfest, Another Roadside Attraction, Edgefest, Summersault–and, of course, Lilith Fair, the female-centric event founded by Sarah McLachlan.

Lilith Fair only enjoyed a couple of years on the road before the new internet-driven economics changed the entire nature of the music industry. Nevertheless, it was an amazing achievement.

Come September 17, the CBC (in conjunction with ABC News Studios) will debut Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery, which based on a 2019 oral history of the tour that appeared in Vanity Fair. It will also get screenings at the Toronto International Film Festival. The producer is Dan Levy.

We’re promised “the untold story of the groundbreaking music festival featuring only women artists, started by iconic Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan and her team in the late 1990s, in opposition to systematic industry barriers that limited women from playing together on a concert bill and getting back-to-back airplay on the radio.”