The popularity of the female-led ’90s-era musical festival Lilith Fair was enough to tell the story behind its origins, Ally Pankiw, director of the Hulu documentary Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery, explained at Deadline’s Contenders Television: Documentary panel, but even more importantly, “it was also the first time that someone had really stood up to some of the myths and lies that were being told to women and diverse artists in the music industry.”
Female artists, even some of the most successful ones of that decade were told “if we play two women back-to-back on the radio, they’ll change the channel,” Pankiw revealed, describing how some of the leading women in the era’s music industry banded together set out to disprove the narrative they were being told. “Even if you’re Sheryl Crow, you can’t decide to have a female opener because of the tour promoters and people funding the tours
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