Lilith Fair stopped touring after its 1999 music festival for a combination of factors. Among these was the organizers’ exhaustion following three consecutive years of touring.
In 2010 Lilith Fair’s cofounder, Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, launched a revival of the festival. As with the original iteration, Lilith Fair toured throughout Canada and the United States, and the organizers also planned shows in Europe. However, poor ticket sales led to the cancellation of many shows, and the European leg never materialized. The less-than-successful performance of Lilith Fair and many other music festivals in 2010 has been blamed on the aftereffects of the recession of 2008.