Every festival-goer knows the pain. Two favorite artists get scheduled at the exact same time, and someone has to lose. Olivia Rodrigo just eliminated that dilemma entirely for her inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival, releasing a schedule with no overlapping sets across the entire day.
The festival, set for Saturday, August 29, at Great Park in Irvine, California, will see Olivia Rodrigo close out the night from 8:40 p.m. to 10 p.m. on the Dandelion Stage, backed by a run of “special guests” that includes Karen O, Sarah McLachlan, and Stevie Nicks. The scheduling even builds in a buffer for fans: the act before her, Not for Radio, wraps its Marigold Stage set at 8:30 p.m., leaving a clean 10-minute walk to catch Rodrigo’s opening notes.
The full day features an all-women lineup stacked with genre range rarely seen on a single bill. Chappell Roan, Doechii, Mitski, Garbage, the Breeders, Bikini Kill, and KATSEYE all perform, alongside Die Spitz, Eli, Quiet Light, Rachel Chinouriri, and Not for Radio. It’s a roster that spans riot grrrl punk, alt-rock, K-pop, and modern pop in a single afternoon, unified by Rodrigo’s insistence on a no-overlap schedule that lets fans see everyone.
The cause behind the music matters as much as the lineup itself. Every artist on the bill is performing for free, and 100% of net proceeds go to charities supporting women and girls, including Baby2Baby, Planned Parenthood, the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the National Women’s Law Center, among others. Tickets ranged across four tiers, from $255 for general admission up to $1,255 for pit viewing, and the event reportedly sold out in roughly 30 minutes when tickets first went live.
Rodrigo has talked openly about where the idea came from. In a “Good Morning America” interview, she credited Lilith Fair, the McLachlan-founded, all-women charity festival of the 1990s, as her direct inspiration, and said McLachlan was the first person she called once she committed to the idea. The festival’s name traces back to something simpler: Rodrigo has described picturing girls sitting under a tree making daisy chains and flower crowns, with each performer standing in as an individual link in something larger than themselves.
The festival arrives at a high point in Rodrigo’s career. Her third album, “You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love,” debuted atop the Billboard 200, and she’s set to kick off her sold-out Unraveled Tour on September 25, just weeks after Daisy Chain Fields wraps. In the meantime, she’s kept the festival’s momentum going with a merch collection built alongside 10 female-owned Etsy shops, featuring handmade flower crowns, beaded jewelry, and journal kits tied to the festival’s aesthetic.
For an artist barely five years into her recording career, Daisy Chain Fields represents a different kind of milestone than a chart record or an award. It’s Rodrigo using her platform to build something structural, a festival designed around fairness for both the fans in the crowd and the artists on stage, with the proceeds pointed entirely toward causes she’s chosen to champion.
