Olivia Rodrigo Announces Daisy Chain Fields Festival
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- Olivia Rodrigo announced the Daisy Chain Fields Festival for Aug. 29 in Irvine, California, on Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer, saying 100% of net proceeds will go to charity and every artist on the bill is performing for free.
- The lineup is entirely women artists: Chappell Roan, Doechii, Katseye, Mitski, the Breeders, Die Spitz, Bikini Kill, Eli, Garbage, Quiet Light, Rachel Chinouriri, and Not for Radio, with Rodrigo herself also performing.
- Sarah McLachlan, Stevie Nicks, and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are set to appear as special guests, and Rodrigo teased a possible duet of "Landslide" with Nicks.
- Rodrigo said she was inspired by Sarah McLachlan's Lilith Fair — the '90s all-women, for-charity festival — and that McLachlan was the first person she called when she decided to launch the fest.
- The festival's charity partners include Baby2Baby, Black Mamas Matter Alliance, Center for Reproductive Rights, FreeFrom, Jhpiego, Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health, National Domestic Workers Alliance, National Institute for Reproductive Health, National Women's Law Center, and Planned Parenthood.
- Rodrigo said the name came from an image of girls sitting under a tree making daisy chains, flower crowns, and friendship bracelets — and "the idea of a daisy chain, that we can all be individual links in this chain that is like, larger than the individual."
Why it matters: Rodrigo is recreating the Lilith Fair template 25+ years later: one festival, one day's worth of ticket revenue routed directly to women's health, reproductive rights, and worker-advocacy nonprofits, with McLachlan, Nicks, and Karen O as special guests making the lineage explicit. For a Gen-Z pop star, the choice to anchor her first festival in that '90s all-women tradition — rather than a generic benefit show — is a deliberate generational handoff.
