WE INTERVIEWED SARAH MCLACHLAN

Right Answers Mostly

Claire Donald & Tess Bellomo

History, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.3 • 634 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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A PINCH US MOMENT for Right Answers Mostly, we got the honor to talk to the iconic Sarah McLachlan, who has been a constant and powerful pioneer for female singer/songwriters and continues to champion for musicians today. We got to ask Sarah all about the experience and legacy of Lilith Fair, challenges she has faced in the music industry, what she is working on now, and re-visiting her Fumbling Towards Ecstasy Album for a BRAND new tour 30 years later. She was an absolute delight and we are more than honored we got to meet her! Make sure to follow Sarah @officialsarahmclachlan, and get tickets to her Fumbling Towards Ecstasy 30th Anniversary Tour HERE Created and produced by Tess Bellomo and Claire Donald. Go here for more on RAM, our premium subscription with two bonus episodes a month, merch, and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back to Write Answers Mostly, a podcast on what you didn't learn in history
0:26.8	class, but really wanted to.
0:28.3	My name is Tess Falomo.
0:29.6	And my name is Claire Dzano.
0:31.3	And you guys, we are, we are starstruck.
0:34.6	We are ecstatic today to have the one, the only Sarah McLaughlin joining us.
0:41.1	Sarah, we know that you need no introduction, but we're going to just highlight a few of your
0:44.9	accomplishments before diving in today. Sarah is one of the most celebrated singer-songwriters
0:51.2	with over 40 million albums sold worldwide and two Grammy Awards.
0:56.7	Sarah founded the Lilith Fair tour, which showcased female musicians and brought over two million people together during its three-year run.
1:04.4	Lilith Fair raised over $7 million for local and national charities and was the most successful all-female music event, which is amazing.
1:12.1	Amazing.
1:13.0	In 2002, she founded her nonprofit Sarah McLaughlin's School of Music, which provides high-quality music education and mentorship, free to children and youth facing various barriers to access.
1:22.8	Sarah will embark on her fumbling towards ecstasy, 30th anniversary tour next month, making her way across
1:28.9	North America with 30 upcoming shows, which we will be at at the Hollywood Ball. Catch us there.
1:34.2	Yes, we cannot wait. Hi, Sarah. Sarah, if your dogs bark in the background, we welcome it. We
1:40.8	always love a dog third co-host. Yes, always. Well, they are quite vocal,
1:46.3	these two. The drug, you know, a squirrel or anything, everybody, they lose their minds.
1:50.8	That's how we like it. Yeah. Hi, Sarah. Thank you so much for joining us on Right Answers mostly.
1:57.0	My pleasure. Nice to be here. It's so nice to meet you. Well, just a little, a little backstory. You've always, you've always been a dream guest of ours. We grew up listening to you. We have two amazing mothers who absolutely adore you. So this is just like a pinch, pinch me moment for for both of us very special to both of our families
2:18.3	yes and we did an episode about a year ago um on the chicks and Claire hosted it and was you know
2:27.5	it was one of my favorite research processes and in that we found out that they were the first country headliners of Lilith Fair.
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