Daisy Chain Fields Raises $10 Million for Nonprofits Serving Women and Girls

Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields Festival has generated $10 million in donations for nonprofits that serve women and girls, the musician announced on the eve of the event. It is a notable result for a first-year festival, and Rodrigo has framed it explicitly as an extension of the model established by Lilith Fair in the late 1990s.

“Before Lilith Fair, women were told that they couldn’t lead a festival, that no one would come, that they couldn’t get sponsors, and those women proved everyone wrong,” Rodrigo said at a press conference Friday. “Thanks to those trailblazers, we are obviously in a very different situation now.”

That reference is not incidental. Sarah McLachlan, one of Lilith Fair’s founders, appears as a special guest alongside Karen O and Stevie Nicks. The lineup includes Rodrigo as headliner, plus Bikini Kill, Chappell Roan, Doechii, Garbage, Mitski, Rachel Chinouriri, Santigold, and the Breeders. Katseye recently withdrew after a member’s injury.

All net proceeds will be distributed across ten organizations, including Baby2Baby, Black Mamas Matter Alliance, and the National Women’s Law Center. A significant portion of the beneficiaries focus on reproductive health care access: the Center for Reproductive Rights, Jhpiego, the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health, Planned Parenthood, and the National Institute for Reproductive Health. FreeFrom and the National Domestic Workers Alliance are also recipients.

The financial figure is the headline, but the structural detail matters too. Rodrigo noted that every artist waived their fee and that sponsors signed onto an unproven event, which suggests the festival’s philanthropic intent was not an afterthought. The result is a concrete test of whether a young, commercially ascendant artist can direct resources toward older feminist institutions and health care infrastructure without turning the gesture into spectacle.