An all-women lineup, one day, in the Orange County sun.
August 29, 2026
This is the Daisy Chain Fields 2026 lineup. For dates, tickets and trip planning for the next edition, see the current Daisy Chain Fields guide.
Venue: Great Park, 8000 Great Park Blvd, Irvine, CA, 92618, Irvine, CA
Olivia Rodrigo built the festival she'd been dreaming about for years and then stacked it with her heroes. Daisy Chain Fields is one day, two stages, and an all-women lineup that runs from Stevie Nicks and Sarah McLachlan to Chappell Roan, Doechii, and Rodrigo herself — fourteen acts plus special guests, with 100% of net proceeds going to nonprofits advancing the rights of women and girls.
The framing isn't subtle, and it isn't meant to be: this is the Lilith Fair idea rebuilt for 2026 — a bill where the whole point is that every name on it is a woman, spanning punk (Bikini Kill, Die Spitz), '90s alt-rock (Garbage, The Breeders), pop's current center of gravity (Rodrigo, Roan, KATSEYE), and a rap force in Doechii. As an inaugural, single-day event, this exact roster will not reassemble.
For a traveler the case is simple: one Saturday at the end of August in Orange County, a lineup you can't see anywhere else, and a ticket that funds something. The music is the headline. The reason to make a weekend of it is everything around it — which is what the rest of this guide is for.
Fans who'd travel for a single unrepeatable bill, and anyone who came up on Lilith Fair and wants to see the idea reborn. Groups building a late-summer Orange County weekend around it — beaches, Newport, and the Disneyland parks are all a short drive. Anyone who wants their ticket money to do something: net proceeds go entirely to women- and girls-focused nonprofits.
Less ideal for: anyone expecting a multi-day camping festival — this is a single Saturday at an urban park with no on-site camping. Budget travelers should note the entry point is $250 GA before travel, and a late-August Orange County weekend overlaps peak summer-tourism hotel rates.