Olivia Rodrigo Launches Daisy Chain Fields Festival With Stevie Nicks, Alanis Morissette and Sarah McLachlan
Olivia Rodrigo headlined the first Daisy Chain Fields festival on Saturday night at Great Park in Irvine, California, bringing Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morissette and Stevie Nicks onstage as her guests. The all-women festival donated $10 million to nonprofits benefiting women and girls, according to Rolling Stone.
Rodrigo modelled Daisy Chain Fields on Lilith Fair, the travelling festival McLachlan founded in the late 1990s — a touring bill built around women artists at a time when promoters routinely told the industry that women could not headline. On Saturday, the inspiration came full circle when Rodrigo and McLachlan duetted on two of McLachlan's signature songs, 'Building a Mystery' and 'Angel'.
Alanis Morissette's appearance was a late substitution. She filled in for Karen O, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs singer who had been announced as part of the bill when Rodrigo revealed the festival in June. Rodrigo and Morissette performed 'Ironic', from Morissette's 1995 album Jagged Little Pill. The two first shared a stage in May 2022 at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles during Rodrigo's 'Sour' tour, singing 'You Oughta Know', and first met in 2021 when they appeared together on the cover of Rolling Stone's Musicians on Musicians issue.
Stevie Nicks joined Rodrigo for 'Landslide', the Fleetwood Mac song Nicks wrote and first recorded in 1975. The two traded verses while dancing, closing a bill that, per Rodrigo's official store, is run through 'a nonprofit founded by Olivia Rodrigo and dedicated to creating spaces where women can connect through music.'
When Rodrigo announced Daisy Chain Fields in June, the named guests were Karen O, Stevie Nicks and Sarah McLachlan — Morissette stepped in after Karen O withdrew. Rodrigo's official store continues to offer a waitlist for festival tickets alongside a dedicated merchandise collection.
The $10 million donation figure is the most concrete measure of the festival's reach on its first outing. For a debut event at a single venue, that total places Daisy Chain Fields in the upper tier of philanthropic music festivals — comparable figures from established charity events typically take years to reach eight digits.
What stands out is the lineage. McLachlan built Lilith Fair because concert promoters insisted women could not sell tickets. Rodrigo, 25 years later, booked the woman who proved them wrong, the woman who followed, and a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer who preceded both — and donated the proceeds to the cause Lilith Fair was built to advance.
