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A star-studded new documentary titled Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery \u2014 The Untold Story<\/em> will celebrate the trailblazing legacy of the historic all-female music festival. Ahead of the film\u2019s Sept. 21 release, a new trailer previews interviews with artists who played the festival as well as young fans shaped by it.<\/p>\n \u201cAll of my favorite artists played at this event,\u201d Olivia Rodrigo<\/a> says during her interviews. \u201cI was in disbelief I had never heard of it before.\u201d Rodrigo is joined by Lilith Fair vets Sheryl Crow, Paula Cole, Bonnie Raitt, and Erykah Badu as well as the fest\u2019s co-founder Sarah McLachlan, who all appear in the documentary. The new trailer previews some of their interviews as well as never-before-seen performance and backstage footage that celebrates the powerful, supportive environment and impact of a woman-led festival.<\/p>\n More from Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cPromoters said \u2018You can\u2019t put two women on the same bill. People won\u2019t come,’\u201d McLachlan recalls. \u201cThat\u2019s complete bullshit.\u201d<\/p>\n Ally Pankiw directed the film, which is produced by\u00a0Dan Levy<\/a>\u2018s Not a Real Production Company and commissioned by CBC. The film is produced with the support of the original Lilith Fair founders McLachlan, Terry McBride, Dan Fraser, and Marty Diamond. The film is based on the 2019\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/em>\u00a0article<\/em>\u00a0\u201cBuilding a Mystery: An Oral History of Lilith Fair\u201d written by Jessica Hopper with Sasha Geffen and Jenn Pelly.<\/p>\n It will premiere on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+ in the U.S. and internationally on Sept. 21. The film will debut on CBC in Canada on Sept. 17 and CBC Gem on Sept. 21.<\/p>\n Best of Rolling Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for RollingStone’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A star-studded new documentary titled Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery \u2014 The Untold Story will celebrate the trailblazing legacy of the historic all-female music festival. Ahead of the film\u2019s Sept. 21 release, a new trailer previews interviews with artists who played the festival as well as young fans shaped by it. \u201cAll of my favorite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2017875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[361711,370314,346984,342897,25675,314737,342898,312687,370315,57296],"class_list":["post-2017874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-bonnie-raitt","tag-building-a-mystery","tag-erykah-badu","tag-lilith-fair","tag-olivia-rodrigo","tag-rolling-stone","tag-sarah-mclachlan","tag-sheryl-crow","tag-the-untold-story","tag-vanity-fair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Watch-Sarah-McLachlan-Olivia-Rodrigo-Discuss-Lilith-Fairs-Impact-in.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2017874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2017875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2017874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2017874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2017874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}