Sarah’s Charity Work 1999
Sheryl Crow & Friends live at Central Park
September 14th 1999
The most improbable sight in rock & roll? How about Keith Richards flirting onstage with a Dixie Chick during a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Tombstone Blues”? Sheryl Crow’s concert in Central Park provided that spectacle and other uncommon pleasures. Shilling for American Express (and donating $50,000 to a pediatric AIDS organization), Crow got heavyweight friends (and one ex-boyfriend) to show, including Sarah McLachlan, Stevie Nicks, Chrissie Hynde and Eric Clapton. The audience, limited to 25,000, comprised Lilith Fair devotees, sedate financial planners and a confused kid in a Among Crow’s “friends” at the AIDS benefit were Sarah McLachlan, Stevie Nicks, Chrissie Hynde and Eric Clapton.
Album : Live from Central Park / Sheryl Crow and friends, Los Angeles : A&M Records, 1999). Sarah sings on that album.
Donation to the Library and Archives Canada
List of Donors of 1999-2000
The Library also received installment of several important music manuscript fonds, those of singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, the Vancouver rock band Trooper, and Toronto composer Harry Somers (1925-1999).
Official website: collectionscanada.ca
Benefit for the women in Afghanistan
March 26th 1999
Hollywood’s best and brightest stars come out for the Feminist Majority Foundation’s Campaign to Stop Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan, chaired by FMF Board Member Mavis Leno, in a major public education event to help expose human rights abuses against women and girls in Afghanistan. The event features performances by Melissa Etheridge, Vince Gill, Jay Leno, Sarah McLachlan, Sidney Poitier, Lionel Richie, and Wynonna. Event attendees include Marlo Thomas, Geena Davis, Kathy Bates, Gillian Anderson, Lily Tomlin, Laura Dern, Brandy, Lisa Leslie, Sharon Gless, Tyne Daly, Margaret Cho, Linda Ellerbee, Ashely Judd, Naomi Judd, Lucy Lawless, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (granddaughter of Eleanor Roosevelt), Gabrielle Reese, Mary Steenburgen, Alfre Woodard, Abigail Van Buren, FMF Board Chair Peg Yorkin, President Eleanor Smeal and National Coordinator Katherine Spillar, and FMF Board Members Lorraine Sheinberg, Ina Coleman, Judith Meuli, Helen Cho, and Dolores Huerta . Voice of America broadcasts the event live to Afghanistan.
Lithographs auctions
April 1999
Bid on 10 signed color lithographs of McLachlan’s original artwork, available exclusively at Amazon.com Auctions. All proceeds will go to McLachlan’s chosen charity, LIFEbeat, a non-profit AIDS resource and awareness organization.
Official website: lifebeat.org
PETA Concert
Though benefit concerts are usually musically uneven, this 1999 show for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is an exception. Following an amusing Laugh-In-style intro and brief stand-up by Ellen DeGeneres and Margaret Cho, Sarah McLachlan performs her wistful “Angel” accompanied by stills of Sir Paul McCartney and his late wife (and avid PETA advocate), Linda. The B- 52s follow, bopping their way through “Love Shack,” “Roam,” and “Rock Lobster,” then are joined by Chrissie Hynde, who dedicates her powerful ballad “I’ll Stand by You” to mistreated animals. Climaxing this 65-minute concert is Sir Paul and his crack band (including Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour), cranking out a half-dozen back-to-basics rock & roll tunes from his album Run Devil Run.
First Ladies Of Songs Album
Album released in October 1999
Deborah Cox, Toni Braxton, Sarah McLachlan and Whitney Houston are among the artists who appear on “First Ladies Of Song,” a limited edition CD that is available exclusively at Ann Taylor and Ann Taylor Loft stores across the country. The CD’s October (1999) release comes in conjunction with National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and net proceeds from the compilation, which features all previously released tracks, will be donated to the National Breast Cancer Coalition Fund. The track list for “First Ladies Of Song” includes: “Possession” – Sarah McLachlan
Austism Benefit
September 17th 1999
Sarah McLachlan, along with special guest DJ Perry Farrell, the Flys, Remy Zero, Leah Andreone, Jaded, the Frias Brothers, the Toledo Show, and other “special guests” are set to perform tonight at the Key Club in West Hollywood, Calif. at a special event benefiting Surfer’s Healing and Cure Autism Now (C.A.N.). The event, which starts at 7 p.m., is intended to raise money to support autism education, rehabilitation, and research, as well as increase public awareness about autism and the challenges facing the individuals and families affected by this disease. The benefit is sponsored by Tommy Hilfiger and includes a silent auction. Features on Sarah McLachlan, Jane’s Addiction, the Flys, and Remy Zero are available on LAUNCH.com.
Lilith Fair
1998-1999
Each day of the Lilith Fair tour, there was three special events in addition to the concert and the Lilith Village. The first, of course, is the donation of $1 per ticket to a women’s shelter in each market. The second is the community arts project, called Mosaic. It also gives you a chance to participate in a nationwide art project. Lastly, we have Literary Lilith with a national literacy program, local independent bookstore and various authors.
One of the most inspiring aspects of Lilith Fair is it’s recognition of a local women’s shelter in each of the markets it performs in. As it has the past two years, Lilith Fair is again donating $1 per ticket to a shelter in every market. For many of these groups, the donation from Lilith Fair and the concert goers represents a huge boost to their funding allowing them to help even more women and children in their neighbourhood.
The following is a partial list of national non-profit organizations who was recipients of Lilith Fair’s contributions and/or will also have booths in the Village area on each Lilith Fair date.
– The Breast Cancer Fund is a national nonprofit organization working through research, action and policy change that support: – replacement of mammography with a safer, more reliable form of detection – discovery and promotion of non-toxic treatments – elimination of preventable causes of the disease, such as those in the environment – making the best possible medical care, support services and information available to all.
http://www.breastcancerfund.org/
– The Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) operates America’s only national hotline for survivors of sexual assault. The hotline – 800.656.HOPE – offers free, confidential counseling and support 24 hours a day, from anywhere in the country. In under five years of operation, the RAINN network of 826 local rape crisis centers has already helped more than 260,000 victims of sexual assault. RAINN representatives will be at each of the Lilith Fair shows to distribute their educational material.
http://www.rainn.org/
– LIFEbeat, a not-for-profit HIV/AIDS resource and awareness organization, is the American music industry’s response to the international HIV/AIDS crisis. Their presence on both the 1997 and 1998 Lilith Fair tours enabled LIFEbeat to perform an unprecedented level of HIV/AIDS outreach: Through partnerships with local AIDS service organizations, LIFEbeat was able to distribute condoms, brochures, hotline cards and educational information at every Lilith Fair show. LIFEbeat will again be on tour with Lilith Fair in 1999, reaching more people with even more condoms, brochures, hotline cards and educational information.
http://www.lifebeat.org/
– The oldest and largest voluntary reproductive health care organization, Planned Parenthood is dedicated to the principle that every individual has the fundamental right to choose when or whether to have children, and believes in equal access to health care. Planned Parenthood further believes that such self-determination will contribute to an enhancement of the quality of life, strong family relationships and population stability.
http://www.plannedparenthood.org/
– Global Exchange is a non-profit human rights organization that exposes economic and political injustice around the world–and then organizes for change. Founded in 1988, Global Exchange strives for social justice on a global scale by promoting people-to-people ties between citizens of the developed and developing worlds. Whether it’s US companies such as Nike abusing the women who make its shoes, the Mexican government denying basic rights to indigenous people in Chiapas, or the World Bank funding dams that displace local villages and destroy ecosystems, Global Exchange jumps into the fray. As part of its broader human rights mission, Global Exchange sponsors a Fair Trade program that works to build economic justice from the bottom up through the sale of hand-crafted goods from around the world. This summer, Global Exchange will sell its Fair Trade goods at all Lilith Fair concerts in the US. Lilith Fair will also provide space for Global Exchange to educate concertgoers about international human rights issues.”
http://www.globalexchange.org/
– Laubach Literacy is a nonprofit educational corporation dedicated to helping adults of all ages improve their lives and their communities by learning basic reading, writing and math skills. Founded in 1955, Laubach Literacy is the oldest and largest organization of its kind, with more than 1000 member programs throughout the United States and 69 partner programs in 36 countries in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean.
http://www.proliteracy.org/
– The National Organization for Women was established on June 30, 1966, in Washington, D.C. by people attending the Third National Conference of the Commission on the Status of Women. NOW is currently the largest feminist organization in the nation, with more than half a million contributing members; NOW has more than 550 chapters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. We are a non-profit organization and receive all of our operating funds from private donations and membership dues.
NOW’s official priorities are pressing for an amendment to the US Constitution that will guarantee equal rights for women; achieving equal economic opportunity for women; championing abortion rights, reproductive freedom and other women’s health issues; supporting civil rights for all and opposing racism; opposing bigotry against lesbians and gays; and ending violence against women. NOW achieves its goals through direct mass actions (including marches, rallies, pickets, counter-demonstrations and non-violent civil disobedience), intensive lobbying, grassroots political organizing and litigation (including class action lawsuits).
http://www.now.org/
In 1970 there was no such thing as a shelter for battered women. Today there are over 2,000 shelter and service programs, forming a national movement based on the belief that women and their children are entitled to a safe environment free from acts and threats of violence.
– The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence was formally organized in 1978 when over 100 battered women’s advocates from all across the country attended the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Hearing on Battered Women in Washington, D.C. NCADV remains the only national organization of grassroots shelter and service programs for battered women. NCADV serves as an information and referral center for the general public and the media; provides technical assistance to battered women’s shelters; produces national conferences and training events; sponsors Domestic Violence Awareness Month every October; and works in Washington D.C. to impact public policy and legislation which affects battered women and their children. For more information on how you can join NCADV to make Every Home a Safe Home, call (303) 839-1852; write to PO Box 18749, Denver, CO 80218
http://www.ncadv.org/
– Amnesty International is a grassroots activist organization whose one-million strong members are dedicated to freeing prisoners of conscience (people who have been detained based on their beliefs, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, color or language and who have neither used or advocated violence), to gaining fair trials for political prisoners, to ending torture, political killings and “disappearances,” and to abolishing the death penalty throughout the world. Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) is the U.S. Section of this international human rights movement
http://www.amnestyusa.org/
