2010 Lilith Tour Cancels Dates, Report Says

NY Times ^ | June 25, 2010, 10:40 am | DAVE ITZKOFF

[a fool in paradise]

Two days before the resurrected Lilith tour is scheduled to begin in Calgary, Alberta, a report in The Globe and Mail newspaper of Toronto said the concert series has been canceling dates because of poor ticket sales.

The Lilith tour, which spotlights female artists and whose founders include Sarah McLachlan, is preparing for its first season since 1999, with a lineup that includes Mary J. Blige, Sheryl Crow and Erykah Badu.

But a manager for Norah Jones told The Globe and Mail that the dates Ms. Jones was scheduled to perform on, from Aug. 10 through Aug. 16, in cities including West Palm Beach and Tampa, Fla.; Birmingham, Ala.; Houston; and Dallas had been dropped.

...The Lilith tour had previously announced the cancellations of tour stops in Phoenix and Nashville.

...A press representative for the 2010 Lilith tour wrote in an e-mail message that there was “nothing to confirm right now.”

[ConservativeMind]

What a shame. Maybe they can play for 0bama all those dates, instead.

[relictele]

Next story: bad old mean conservatives quashed the Lilith Fair.

But as usual liberals pay lip service to supporting ‘their’ artists but fail to buy tickets due to apathy and/or lack of funds.

Anyway, with Hillary, Napolitano and potentially Kagan holding high office the Lilith Fair could be judged to have achieved its objective (wink wink).

[TSgt]

Sad, I enjoy the singers but not their politics.

The line-up isn’t very strong.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

[a fool in paradise]

[equalitybeforethelaw]

I guess its that time of the month? Who knew?

[Allegra]

Isn't this just some feel-good lesbi-liberal thing, anyway?

Looks like it jumped the shark.

[My Favorite Headache]

Kinda shocking here actually...some huge artists on this tour...guess their boy Obama isn’t filling their fans pockets enough. Couple this with the fact that Ticketmaster has been selling tickets for 10.00 each with no service fee to these shows all week long.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

I actually got roped into going to the 1997 Lilith show. Got a nice lawn seat, a comfortable blanket and a 4 hour power nap. I think I caught 15 minutes of Tracy Chapman’s set before passing out.

[a fool in paradise]

I think that the cancellation can be blamed on a shortage of patchouli crops this year.

[Maverick68]

Absolute beautiful karma.
These dirty Libs blindly support the people who are destroying the economy....

[Jack Hydrazine]

From Wiki:

Lilith (Hebrew: לילית‎ Līlīt) is believed to have originated as a female Mesopotamian storm demon associated with wind and was thought to be a bearer of disease, illness, and death. The figure of Lilith first appeared in a class of wind and storm demons or spirits as Lilitu, in Sumer, circa 4000 BC. The phonetic name Lilith is traditionally thought to have originated in Ancient Israel, and to have pre-dated at least 700 BC.

In Jewish folklore, Lilith is the name of Adam's first wife, who was created at the same time and from the same earth as Adam. She left Adam after she refused to become subservient to Adam and then would not return to the Garden of Eden after she mated with archangel Samael. Her story was greatly developed, during the Middle Ages, in the tradition of Aggadic midrashim, the Zohar and Jewish mysticism. The resulting Lilith legend is still commonly used as source material in modern culture, literature, occultism, fantasy and horror.

In a paper on the subject of feminist theology, Deborah J. Grenn, of the Kohenet Hebrew Priestess Institute, has argued that Lilith was a mother goddess whose demonization was designed to keep women alienated from their own 'original sources' of power and spiritual authority. The case is argued for "a reinterpretation of the divine as embodied by the Semitic goddess Lilith, she who has been represented and misrepresented in a variety of sacred texts".

[albie]

These “ladies” are has beens. Would’ve turned into a bash Bush, love the kenyan, hate oil, peace rant anyway. “Che” t-shirt vendors would’ve made a fortune.

[The Sons of Liberty]

People, out of work and floundering in the 0bama Depression, can’t spare the cash. Go complain to the marxist usurper.

[a fool in paradise]

If they “do” complain to Obamaone, they will be rewarded with a Wednesday Night taxpayer funded party at the White House.

[Interesting Times]

No, our audiences haven't gotten smaller.

They're just, ah, more selective.

[MissTed]

Aaawww...and I already shined my combat boots for the occasion.

[dfwgator]

Looks like it’s full of has-beens.

[a fool in paradise]

Obama: “Did you see ‘ow bad that President Bush was? ‘alfway through MY presidency, the public remembered ‘ow bad ‘E was and started booing ME!”