Sarah McLachlan Disbands All-Female Music Festival Lilith Fair

Sarah McLachlan, who co-founded Lilith Fair with former manager Terry McBride and two other music industry executives in the late 1990s, has announced the all-female music festival will not be revived.

“It’s done,” McLachlan told Canada’s national newspaper, The Globe and Mail, in Calgary over the weekend. “And that’s okay. It’s actually a really good thing.”

Lilith Fair garnered critical and commercial success during its initial run from 1997 to 1999, raising millions of dollars for women’s charities and packing houses with passionate fans.

The once-popular festival returned from hiatus in 2010, but abysmal attendance figures and nearly a dozen cancellations resulted in its seemingly inevitable downfall.

“In 12 years, women have changed a lot,” McLachlan said. “Their expectations have changed, the way they view the world has changed, and that was not taken into consideration, which I blame myself for.”

The “Sweet Surrender” singer insisted last summer that the tour would return the following year, but she sang a different tune while addressing its demise.

“It lived in a time and place and it probably should have stayed there,” she admitted.

With last year’s poorly conceived Lilith revival in the rearview mirror, McLaughlin may look to update the concept for future endeavors, according to Rolling Stone.

“I’m just excited about looking forward and thinking of carrying forth the ideas from Lilith and maybe doing something new and different,” she concluded.