Canadian musician Sarah McLachlan cancelled musical performances at Sunday night's U.S. premiere of the documentary _Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery_ in Los Angeles, citing the "muzzling" of free speech.

While introducing the film at the screening at the Ford Theater, McLachlan — who co-founded the Lilith Fair festival, which highlighted female musicians in the 1990s — announced the cancellations and her reasoning.

"We have collectively decided not to perform, but instead to stand in solidarity in support of free speech," McLachlan said in a video taken at the premiere and posted to X by a journalist with The Hollywood Reporter.

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The announcement came toward the end of McLachlan's statement, and garnered a standing ovation from

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