Olivia Rodrigo's Daisy Chain Fields puts an all-women bill in Irvine, and everyone's playing for free

Olivia Rodrigo announced a one-day festival called Daisy Chain Fields on Monday night, and the pitch is unusual enough to lead with the money. Every act on the bill is playing for free, and 100% of the net proceeds go to charity. The show lands August 29 at Great Park in Irvine, California.

Rodrigo laid it out in an Instagram post Monday and then on "Good Morning America" with Diane Sawyer the next morning. "100% of the net proceeds of the festival go to charity, and all the incredible artists who are on the bill are doing it for free for charity," she told Sawyer.

The lineup

This is where it gets interesting. The bill is all women and women-fronted bands, and it reaches across about four decades of scenes instead of just stacking up current radio. Across two stages: Bikini Kill, Chappell Roan, Die Spitz, Doechii, Eli, Garbage, KATSEYE, Mitski, Not For Radio, Quiet Light, Rachel Chinouriri, Santigold, The Breeders, and Rodrigo herself. Special guests Karen O, Sarah McLachlan, and Stevie Nicks fill out the day.

Read it by scene and the curation shows. Bikini Kill is riot grrrl source code, Kathleen Hanna's band. The Breeders, Garbage, and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover the '90s and early-2000s alt run. Nicks and McLachlan are the legacy anchors. Then the current end: Chappell Roan and Doechii coming off enormous years, Mitski, the K-pop-built KATSEYE, plus newer names like Rachel Chinouriri and the Austin punk trio Die Spitz. Rodrigo called Hanna "a huge hero of mine" to Sawyer.

The Lilith Fair line

Rodrigo has been open that the model is Lilith Fair, the all-women touring festival Sarah McLachlan ran in the late '90s. "The first person that I called when I decided that I wanted to do this festival was Sarah McLachlan," she said. McLachlan is on the bill as a special guest. When Sawyer floated a Nicks and Rodrigo duet on "Landslide," Rodrigo did not rule it out: "We might make that happen for you, Diane. We'll see."

Where the money goes

The charity piece is the centerpiece, not a footnote. Net proceeds go to a slate of nonprofits focused on women and girls, including 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. The festival is produced by C3 Presents and Live Nation, and the day will fold in nonprofit activations and on-site resources around the music.

Tickets

Presale opened June 24 at 10 a.m. PT through the festival site. Demand was immediate. Rolling Stone reported the festival sold out in about 30 minutes.

Context

The festival arrives on the back of Rodrigo's third album, "you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love," out via Geffen. It moved 485,000 units in its first week, the biggest solo debut of 2026. A one-off charity festival is a different swing from a stadium tour, and the economics are the actual headline: 17 acts, two stages, one day, nobody collecting a fee. Short sets are the trade-off when you pack a bill that deep into a single date. Whether the daisy chain holds for a second year is the open question.