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It was scorching – and nearly every artist commented on the intense heat. From Rachel Chinouriri stating, “it’s f—ing hot, Jesus…the U.K. ain’t like this” during her 12:30 p.m. set to Chappell Roan introducing her hit “HOT TO GO!” near the end of her 7 p.m. by saying, “this next song is very fitting, I feel.” Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna, Mitski and Doechii were among those who reminded fans to hydrate – with Hanna herself taking long sips from her reusable bottle boasting an “f–k ice” sticker.
Such was the ethos of the day: stand for something, and look out for one another.
It was just two months ago that Olivia Rodrigo announced Daisy Chain Fields, her very own music festival, along with its Daisy Chain Fields Fund. “Truly never felt more excited to share a piece of news with you all,” Rodrigo wrote on Instagram at the time. “I’ve had a dream of doing this festival for years and I am so ecstatic it’s finally coming true!!”
Today, Saturday (Aug. 29), fans felt firsthand that Daisy Chain Fields was always meant so much more than just a festival – and in fact, it could even change how such events operate going forward. Boasting an all women lineup of Olivia’s “heroes and friends”and with 100% of the net proceeds going to charities dedicated to advancing and advocating for women and girls, Rodrigo created something much greater than a day of music. She amplified a mission and supercharged a movement.
The day before fans flocked to Irvine, Calif. for the one-day festival (on Friday, Aug. 28), Rodrigo held a press conference to share a sizeable piece of news: ticket sales alone brought in $10 million for the fest’s 10 nonprofit partners. (Partners include Baby2Baby, Black Mamas Matter Alliance, Center for Reproductive Rights, FreeFrom, Jhpiego, Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health, National Domestic Workers Alliance, National Institute for Reproductive Health, National Women’s Law Center and Planned Parenthood.)
While speaking at the presser, Rodrigo also name-checked the iconic Lilith Fair, saying its founder, Sarah McLachlan, was one of the first people she called while in the early stages of making her dream a reality. Tonight, to cap off her own historic first fest, Rodrigo welcomed McLachlan – along with Alanis Morissette and Stevie Nicks – on stage during her stellar headlining set.
Prior to performing, Rodrigo welcomed Melinda French Gates to the stage to announce the philanthropist had doubled the $10 million in funds raised – bringing Daisy Chain Fields’ total donation amount to $20 million.
In Rodrigo’s same Instagram caption from two months ago, she had ended it by saying: “I firmly believe that joy, community and music can be the drivers of meaningful change and I’m hopeful this festival will be just that.”
In its first year, it already was. And thankfully, as Rodrigo revealed at the end of her set, it will continue to be. As she enthusiastically declared, “see you next year!”
Until then, read on for the best moments from the inaugural Daisy Chain Fields music festival.
Olivia Rodrigo turned a last-minute lineup shakeup into one of the defining moments of her inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival on Saturday (Aug. 29), calling Alanis Morissette to the stage after Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O pulled out of the all-women event at Great Park in Irvine, Calif.
Rodrigo delivered the news of the cancellation to the crowd herself, framing it gently before revealing the silver lining.
“The bad news is Karen O is not able to make it tonight, she was one of the first people who said yes to Daisy Chain but she has a personal matter that requires her to be elsewhere,” Rodrigo said.
The good news walked out moments later. Rodrigo welcomed Morissette as the fill-in, and the two launched into “Ironic,” the enduring single from Morissette’s 1995 landmark Jagged Little Pill. Then came the twist worth talking about: partway through, they reworked the song’s most-quoted scenario, flipping its “beautiful wife” to a “beautiful husband” — a small rewrite with a pointed wink at a festival built on an all-women, queer-inclusive bill that also features Chappell Roan and Doechii.
The duet doubled as a full-circle moment for Rodrigo, who has long named Jagged Little Pill as a cornerstone of her own songwriting. She inducted Morissette into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2022, and the pair previously shared a stage on Rodrigo’s Sour tour, trading verses on “You Oughta Know” in Los Angeles.
Rodrigo staged Daisy Chain Fields at a career high. Her third album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, debuted atop the Billboard 200 in June with 485,000 equivalent album units — the biggest week of her career and the largest week of 2026 for any solo artist. Lead single “drop dead” bowed at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, her fourth chart-topping debut. With the release, she became just the second artist ever, after Beyoncé, to send each of her first three studio albums to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 while landing at least one Hot 100 leader from each.
The one-day festival, which raised $10 million for nonprofits supporting women and girls, arrives just weeks before Rodrigo launches her Unraveled Tour.
Harry Styles gave a cheeky nod to ex-girlfriend Taylor Swift’s wedding during night three of his Madison Square Garden residency on Saturday (Aug. 29).
Toward the end of the set, he hyped up the venue’s recent history before pivoting to the joke: “We’re at Madison Square Garden, home of the world champion New York Knicks!” he told the crowd, before adding, “And they also do weddings.” The line, referencing Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce‘s July 3 wedding at the arena, drew loud cheers.
Styles and Swift dated from November 2012 to January 2013, a relationship widely understood to have inspired Swift’s 2014 hit “Style.” He reportedly received an invitation to the Swift-Kelce wedding but didn’t attend; sources told Variety at the time he was “currently on tour and will not make it to MSG.”
His fiancée, Zoë Kravitz, went to the ceremony without him. Styles was performing the London leg of his own Together, Together tour that same night, and fan footage from the July 3 Wembley show captured him singing 2017 track “Two Ghosts” — long rumored to be his response to “Style” — including the lines “Same lips red, same eyes blue / Same white shirt, couple more tattoos.”
The joke landed three days into a residency already drawing outsized attention. Styles’ 30-show MSG run — which makes up the entirety of his 2026 U.S. tour dates and continues through Halloween — opened Aug. 26 to 11.5 million presale ticket registrations in January, which Ticketmaster called the highest volume ever recorded for an artist presale.
It’s Styles’ first run of live shows since 2023, in support of his new album Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, released in March.
Opening night carried its own emotional weight. Styles completely overhauled his usual setlist — a departure from the largely unchanged show he’d played across 33 prior tour dates — and paused late in the set to honor Dolly Parton, who had died the day before.
“I just wanna give a proper thank you to all the musicians who have inspired me over the years,” he told the crowd. “Dolly, we love you. Thank you so much.” Her 1974 recording of “I Will Always Love You” then played over the PA as the crowd sang along, with Zoë Kravitz, Gayle King and Drew Barrymore among those in attendance. Styles closed that show with “Sign of the Times” and set-closer “Aperture.”
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