I AM LILITH, HEAR ME ROAR.Byline: Jeff Girod Staff Writer Seven days after the U.S. women's soccer team won the World Cup, Pasadena's Rose Bowl was alive once again in a celebration of all things female. Sarah McLachlan headlined a lineup of pop's hottest acts Saturday at Lilith Fair Lilith Fair was a concert tour and traveling music festival, founded by musician Sarah McLachlan, that consisted solely of female solo artists and female-led bands; it ran from 1997 to 1999. 1999, including Sheryl Crow, the Pretenders, the Dixie Chicks, Luscious Jackson This article is about a band. For a basketball player whose name inspired this band, see Lucious Jackson. Luscious Jackson is an alternative/pop-rock group formed in 1991. and Sixpence None the Richer Sixpence None the Richer was a Grammy-nominated Christian band that played pop/rock with roots in New Braunfels, Texas, eventually settling in Nashville, Tennessee. The name of the band is inspired by a passage in writer C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. . About 30,000 fans - most of them women - endured temperatures in the high '90s, armed with bottled water and clad mostly in shorts, bikini tops, cowboy hats and temporary tattoos espousing ``Girl Power.'' Lesser-known acts Cibo Matto, Beth Orton Elizabeth Caroline Orton[1], commonly known as Beth Orton, (born December 14, 1970), is a BRIT Award–winning English singer-songwriter. Known for her "folktronica" sound, which mixes elements of folk and electronica, she was initially recognized for her , Noella Hutton, Tekla and Essence kicked off the party right on two smaller stages located near the south ticket gates. Sixpence None the Richer capped the day's second stage performances, belting out their Top 40 hit ``Kiss Me'' as well as a sugary-sweet cover of the La's ``There She Goes.'' This was the last date on the Lilith Fair tour for Sixpence six·pence n. 1. A coin formerly used in Britain and worth six pennies. 2. The sum of six pennies. sixpence Noun , and spritely lead singer Leigh Nash Leigh Bingham Nash (born June 27 1976) is a singer and composer, best known as the lead vocalist for the rock band Sixpence None the Richer[1]. Leigh is a self professed Born-again Christian. Biography Nash was born Leigh Bingham in New Braunfels, Texas. thanked everybody for their support. On the main stage on the Rose Bowl field, New York's Luscious Jackson pumped up the volume in support of new album ``Electric Honey Electric Honey may refer to:
R&b artist Mya followed with her hit ``Ghetto Superstar,'' minus Pras, from the ``Bulworth'' soundtrack and a five-minute tap solo with bongo bongo (bŏng`gō), spiral-horned antelope, Boocercus eurycerus, found in jungles and thick bamboo forests of equatorial Africa. Shy, elusive animals, bongos never emerge into the open and are seldom seen; they browse singly or in small accompaniment. The Dixie Chicks added a little country flavor with several songs from their ``Wide Open Spaces'' album as well as sneak peeks from their next album, ``Fly,'' to be released Aug. 31, according to lead singer Natalie Maines. New songs included one about a wife beater, named Earl, who must die, and a ``happy divorce song.'' Maines, currently going through a divorce of her own, sang the line, ``I'll fly away on a sin wagon,'' a reference to a woman who's trying to match the past misdeeds of her philandering husband. Old-school rocker Chrissie Hynde and the rest of the Pretenders cranked up the decibels on such favorites as ``Middle of the Road,'' ``Talk of the Town,'' ``Message of Love'' and ``I'll Stand by You.'' Hynde proved she's still queen of the rockers, dressed in skin-tight black jeans and matching blazer and telling an off-color joke about the price one Madison Avenue socialite paid for her fur coat. She also stopped midsong on ``Don't Get Me Wrong,'' turning it into a swanky swank·y adj. swank·i·er, swank·i·est Swank. swank  i·ly adv.swank night club number and doing her best imitation of Frank Sinatra. The highlight of Sheryl Crow's set happened when Stevie Nicks joined her on stage for ``Strong Enough.'' Nicks seemed a little nervous in front of so many people, but she held her own with Crow. Who knows, maybe the crowd's warm response will spur Nicks to do a tour of her own. Orton, sporting a red cowboy hat, also sang an impromptu duet with Crow on ``If It Makes You Happy.'' Lilith Fair saved its best for last with McLachlan, the tour's matriarch and founder, taking the stage in teal sequined se·quin n. 1. A small shiny ornamental disk, often sewn on cloth; a spangle. 2. A gold coin of the Venetian Republic. Also called zecchino. tr.v. pants. McLachlan, as did Crow before her, played for more than an hour - about twice as long as most of the other acts. She didn't disappoint with ``Possession,'' ``I Will Remember You,'' ``Hold On'' and ``Adia.'' McLachlan stopped several times between songs to thank those in attendance and teased the crowd with a prospective move to California from her home in Vancouver, British Columbia. Crow, with her band's violinist and cellist, joined McLachlan for a haunting rendition of ``Angel'' that left Crow rubbing the goose bumps goose bumps or goose pimples: see gooseflesh. on her arms. Lilith's final surprise was a female super-friends rendition of ``Put a Little Love in Your Heart,'' with members from all of the day's groups taking the stage. (Hynde had to read her verse off a slip of paper.) Saturday was Lilith's last California show this tour, and it might be the last one for a while. McLachlan has said she wants to take some time off after this summer to raise a family. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos Photo: (1--2) The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde runs through her group's classic hits at Saturday's Rose Bowl show, which was closed out by Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan, inset. Keith Birmingham/Staff Photographer |
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