Bob Mackin:
News Reporter

THIS summer’s weather has been so disap-
pointing, one could only wish Sarah McLachlan
had staged all 40 Lilith Fair shows here.

There were no clouds in the sky and some \
actually went home with sunburn afier the third annual
tion of women in music began July 8 at Thunderbird Stadium.
“The gods and goddesses smiled upon us and gave us our
one day of sun,”
MeLachlan joked as the
sun set behind the stage at
her first concert in nine

The day commenced what may be the final Lilith Fair tour.
McLachlan hatched the idea four years ago in a reaction both to
concert promoters who claimed no one would buy tickets to a
show with more than onc female performer and radio program-
mers who wouldn’t play songs by women back-to-back. She
proved them wrong with four multi-act concerts in the summer
of 1996, including one at Nat Bailey Stadium, before going all
out the n

Lilith Fair quickly became a marketing phenomenon, spawn-
ing three live compilation CDs, a TV special and even a cook-
book co-written by McLachlan and tour chef Jaime Laurita.
Corporate sponsors have jumped on the bandwagon in a big
way. But McLachlan says it’s time to take a break. After an Aug.
31 show in Edmonton, Lilith Fair will be no more.

Or will it? :

“I don’t want to close the deor on it, it might happen in five
or 10 years, I'm just not sure,” she said at a pre-show news con-
ference. “Life changes a lot and things are unexpected — you
never know what happens.”

McLachlan and her business partners at Nettwerk
Productions want some time off. McLachlan and
husband/drummer Ashwin Sood bought a house in West
Vancouver last year and intend to start a family. Lilith Fair was
only a three-year commitment, she said. But even if it doesn’t
return, the name and concept aren’t for sale.

“I wouldn’r sell it because for me I’m a control freak and a
perfectionist, and my business partners are as well. I think it
would be really hard for me and them to let what we've worked
so hard on for the past three years go to somebody else and not
have the same control over the integrity of it. It would be really
difficult to let that go. But I do hope that someone else picks up
the momentum to this and brings something new to the table.”

SARAH McLachian keep-
ing her options open on
the future cf Lifith.

FORMER North Van res-
idem Coco Leve Alcorn
on the Villiage Stage.

_ . NEWS photoe Stucey Kuna
BIF Naked sings to the hometown crowd from Lilith
Fair's Second Stage.

The end of Lilith, whether temporary or permanent, may be
necessary from a busin standpoint. McLachlan can’t risk over-
exposure. Her 1997 Surfacing album has run its course, and live
albums without new material, like McLachlan’s just-released
Mirrorball, generally don’t have long-term staying power.
Mciachlan and Nettwerk’s executives are also aw aiting a verdict

See McLachlan Page 2\

SHERYL Crow is set to
headline with Sarah for
the entire Liliti: tour.

R&B singer Mya per-
forming on the Main
Stage last Thursday.

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