In the beginning, all Sarah McLachlan wanted was to prove to music industry gatekeepers that female artists could sell concert tickets. The “Sweet Surrender” singer had a simple, untested idea: put multiple women on a single concert bill and see what happens. Her grand experiment, called “ Lilith Fair ” (after Adam’s mythologized first wife who left the Garden of Eden because she viewed herself as an equal) proved the theory — and then some.

Lilith Fair, which ran for three summers from 1997 to 1999 (plus a few experimental dates in 1996), is now the subject of a new documentary titled Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery — The Untold Story . Directed by Ally Pankiw, Building a Mystery features never-before-seen archival footage of each year at Lilith Fair, plus interviews with man

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