This year, I couldn’t attend the exciting Daisy Chains Fields music festival. In late June, Olivia Rodrigo, a three-time Grammy Award winner, announced that the festival would be held at Great Park in Irvine, California, on August 29th, 2026. This was Olivia Rodrigo’s first music festival and was immensely successful, with many praising the artist.
What interested me was that the festival hosted all-female artists, including Devon Again, Chappell Roan, and Mitski. The festival also featured women-led businesses with all proceeds going to the Daisy Chain Fields Fund, which donated to ten organizations supporting women and girls.
Rodrigo credits the music festival, Lilith Fair, as the inspiration for Daisy Chain Fields. Lilith Fair was a touring multi-day festival during the summers of 1997-1999 and was founded by Sarah McLachlan. The all-women festival was designed as a non-profit, like Daisy Chain Fields, with all profits going to various charities. It had many amazing women performers, such as Sheryl Crow, Queen Latifah, Jewel, and Fiona Apple.
I remember hearing about Lilith Fair and watching camcorder footage of festival-goers dancing, wishing I had been born earlier so that I could have experienced it myself. When Daisy Chain Fields was announced, I was really excited since there hadn’t been a festival like it since Lilith Fair. I’m ecstatic that someone like Olivia Rodrigo decided to make an all-woman music festival and even more thrilled that it was so successful.