Olivia Rodrigo made some real girl power history over the weekend at the inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival in Irvine. It’s her answer to the legacy of Lilith Fair that Sarah McLachlan founded back in the 90s. More than 45,000 fans gathered together to celebrate female empowerment, through music, and also to bring awareness to important issues affecting women and girls around the world. Performers included Olivia herself, Chappell Roan, Bikini Kill, Doechii, Garbage, Mitski, Rachel Chinouriri, Santigold, and more. Not to mention the legends who joined Olivia on stage during her set and gifted us with maybe one of the most iconic pictures in musical diva history, definitely in the singer-songwriter territory at least.
That’s Sarah McLachlan, Alanis Morissette and Stevie Nicks in the same photo. It takes an artist with some serious intention to be able to pull something like this off, and Olivia is that girl. Shirley Manson from Garbage said in an interview on the festival grounds that Olivia called each artist personally and asked them to take part. This festival is more than just a performance – it’s living proof that what Sarah hoped to accomplish with Lilith Fair was accomplished: to inspire future generations of female artists and to encourage those artists to carry on Lilith’s spirit of solidarity, integrity, purpose, and of course fun. As a descendent of that mission, Olivia is walking the walk and talking the talk. During the press conference at the beginning of festival weekend, she was joined by executives from each of the ten organizations that took part, where she announced that through Daisy Chain Fields, she would be making a donation of $10 million to said charities. This number would later be doubled thanks to Melinda Gates. Some of the causes include Baby2Baby, National Women’s Law Center, Planned Parenthood and more.
Olivia Rodrigo is donating $10 million to nonprofits around her new music festival pic.twitter.com/WrUMy0aVdi
The festival grounds were bright and hopeful – complete with booths for information on each organization taking part, a “wish tree” where fans could leave their wishes for the future of girlhood, and Drew Barrymore on location to interview Olivia for a future segment on her talk show. Both Drew and Olivia wore daisies in their hair and if there’s a flower that best captures the girl vibe of the 90s that Olivia’s embraced 30 years later, this is the one.
Olivia Rodrigo with Drew Barrymore. pic.twitter.com/w3nDGAi1yl
Olivia’s efforts were a smashing success, taking over social media feeds all weekend long and creating lasting moments that will be taught in music history university classes forever. Here are five highlights from the 2026 Daisy Chain Fields festival – and don’t worry, if you didn’t make it this year, Olivia has confirmed it will return next year.
The heart and soul of the festival was when Stevie Nicks joined Olivia on stage for a rendition of “Landslide”, a track that is universally beloved, but then add in the sweet harmonies of both Olivia and Stevie and it’s new magic from old magic. But also… Practical Magic? Sandra Bullock seemed to use the performance to hint at some major news related to Practical Magic 2.
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Sandra didn’t specify whether it would be a new collaboration between the two or if it’s some of their own individual songs, but either way, we can expect to hear them in the movie. If it is a new collaboration then it has Oscar showdown written all over it. Stevie had two songs on the soundtrack to the first Practical Magic and those songs were collaborations with Sheryl Crow, who at that time in 1998, was at the same point in her musical career that Olivia is in now (three albums down). It would be so incredibly poetic if they continued that tradition but with Olivia and Stevie. Stevie is no stranger to movie and TV witches either, she famously guest starred on a few episodes of American Horror Story: Coven back in 2013.
In addition to joining Olivia on “Landslide”, Stevie also took the chance on stage to give Olivia her flowers for pulling off such an ambitious project. I don’t know about you guys, but if I was on stage with Stevie Nicks receiving praise like that from her, I would just about faint. This is the type of sh-t that ends up in a documentary two decades down the line, and if anyone ever doubted Olivia’s status amongst the future legends of music, this moment is something to use as a point of reference.
Remember earlier when I said that Olivia made a donation of $10 million through the festival? At the beginning of her set she brought billionaire Melinda French Gates on stage to announce that that the contribution would be doubled, making the final number a whopping $20 million.
making billionaires open their wallets. oh godlivia https://t.co/HNF8W2vKGQ
What was already an incredibly generous and monumental gesture suddenly became twice as impactful, and watching the announcement unfold in the middle of the biggest set of the night is one of those moments that puts the entire festival into perspective. We’re not just watching your average popstar stepping on stage to promote her new album but rather we are reminded of what someone of Olivia’s stature and influence can do with those powers.
As if Stevie wasn’t enough, Olivia’s set was also blessed with guest appearances by two Canadian icons: Sarah McLachlan and Alanis Morissette. The significance of Sarah on that stage is as poetic as can be given her title of Lilith Fair founder. Daisy Chain Fields is the fruit of Sarah’s labour and the direct result of the work she did back in the 90s to fight for women in music. Together, the ladies performed “Angel” and “Building A Mystery”, and used the former as a way to pay tribute to Dolly Parton – there was not a dry eye in the entire crowd.
At this point it seems like Olivia is collecting her legend co-signs like infinity stones because then came Alanis Morissette for a groundbreaking duet performance of her generational hit “Ironic”. The industry allyship between Olivia and Alanis has been written since the beginning of Olivia’s career – I mentioned it back in June when Olivia first released her latest project you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love. Olivia even shared a clip of the performance on her socials saying that Alanis was basically her favourite artist of all time. As much as the two of them together is a moment for the culture, it's also a moment for Olivia herself and the teenage girl who fell in love with Jagged Little Pill. I wonder if she knew how much of an impact she’d make on teenage girls just like her one day.
