Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo perform at the Olivia Rodrigo “GUTS” World Tour at the Intuit Dome on August 20, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images)
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Olivia Rodrigo — actor, singer, songwriter, and newly, festival booker.
Rodrigo, fresh off massive critical and commercial success for her new album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, has announced her own music festival, an all-women event called Daisy Chain Fields, scheduled for August 29 at the Great Park in Irvine, California.
Olivia Rodrigo shared the news on social media, writing that she had “had a dream of doing this festival for years” and was “so ecstatic its finally coming true.”
The announcement arrives in the middle of an unusually strong stretch for the singer — her latest album opened at number one on the Billboard 200 less than two weeks after its June 12 release, making it her third consecutive album (out of three total) to top that chart after Sour in 2021 and Guts in 2023.
Who is playing Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields
The full music lineup, listed alphabetically across two stages according to the festival’s own announcement, includes Bikini Kill, Chappell Roan, Die Spitz, Doechii, Eli, Garbage, KATSEYE, Mitski, Not For Radio, Olivia Rodrigo, Quiet Light, Rachel Chinouriri, Santigold and the Breeders. Stevie Nicks, Sarah McLachlan and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are billed as additional special guests.
Chappell Roan and Olivia Rodrigo perform at the Olivia Rodrigo “GUTS” World Tour at the Intuit Dome on August 20, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Christopher Polk/Billboard via Getty Images)
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For the more committed Olivia Rodrigo fans, Chappell Roan’s spot on the bill would be the least surprising of the lot. Rodrigo and Roan met years before either had a record deal, introduced through their shared producer, Dan Nigro; Rodrigo has said she used to visit Roan at the donut shop where she worked before she was signed. Roan opened both the Sour and Guts world tours, appeared as a surprise guest in the Guts concert film, and sang uncredited backing vocals on Rodrigo tracks including ‘Lacy’ and ‘Get Him Back!’
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JANUARY 31: Olivia Rodrigo (C) and (L-R) Manon, Daniela, Yoonchae, Megan, Lara Raj and Sophia of KATSEYE attend Sir Lucian Grainge’s 2026 Music Is Universal Artist Showcase at Nya Studios on January 31, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images for Universal Music Group)
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The bill spans several generations and genres at once. Bikini Kill represents the foundational riot grrrl punk scene of the early 1990s. Doechii brings rap. Globally diverse girl group KATSEYE (minus, of course, member Manon Bannerman) brings a pop sound shaped heavily by K-pop production methods. Nicks and McLachlan, both performing as special guests rather than part of the main bill, represent an era of women-led rock and folk that predates most of the other acts by several decades.
The Lilith Fair comparison around Olivia Rodrigo’s new festival
Especially given Sarah McLachlan’s involvement, it’s hard not to draw comparisons between Daisy Chain Fields and Lilith Fair, the touring all-women festival founded by McLachlan herself in 1997. Lilith Fair ran for three consecutive summers in the late 1990s and became one of the highest-grossing tours of its era before a brief revival attempt in 2010.
The difference would be that Lilith Fair moved through dozens of cities across North America each summer it ran while Daisy Chain Fields (or Liv-ith Fair, if you might) at least in its first year, is a single-day event at one location. But there is still time.
Interestingly, Rodrigo appeared in a 2025 documentary about Lilith Fair, saying that “all of her favourite artists had played at this event”.
Why Olivia Rodrigo started Daisy Chain Fields
In the festival’s mission statement, Olivia Rodrigo described Daisy Chain Fields as a project built on the idea that joy, community and creativity can drive meaningful change, and said she hoped the event could function as a place where curiosity leads to knowledge and action.
The festival is structured as a benefit, with all net proceeds going to organizations focused on advancing the interests of women and girls. According to the official website, the named beneficiaries include Baby2Baby, the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, the Center for Reproductive Rights, FreeFrom, Jhpiego, the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the National Institute for Reproductive Health, the National Women’s Law Center and Planned Parenthood.
Daisy Chain Fields is not Rodrigo’s first move into organized philanthropy. In 2024, she launched Fund 4 Good, an initiative supporting reproductive rights, education, and efforts against domestic violence, and has said proceeds from the Guts World Tour generated more than $2 million in donations to related charities. In 2025, Planned Parenthood gave her its Catalyst of Change award.
What comes next for Olivia Rodrigo
Tickets for Daisy Chain Fields go on presale June 24 at 10 a.m. Pacific time. The festival comes roughly two and a half months after the release of You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, whose lead single, “Drop Dead,” debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in April.With that, every lead single from Olivia Rodrigo’s three studio albums has now opened at number one on the Hot 100 — a first for any artist, according to Billboard.