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\n\tAll mysteries aside, you could say that, this summer, together, Sarah McLachlan and Allison Russell are building a sister-y road show. McLachlan is touring behind her 2025 \u201cBetter Broken\u201d album, as a followup to her successful \u201cFumbling Towards Ecstasy\u201d 30th Anniversary Tour, with plenty of the commemorative aspects of that setlist staying intact alongside the newer material. This year, she has a particularly potent opener, in the form of the acclaimed Allison Russell, who has become more widely known over the past couple of years through opening for Hozier and appearing in a lead role on Broadway in \u201cHadestown.\u201d Between them, there will be a lot of joint Canadian pride but, more significantly, a shared sense of music as a healing force, where, in amphitheaters from coast to coast, audiences can (as McLachlan says) \u201cforget madness\u201d and remember the joy of melting into connection.<\/p>\n

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\nVariety<\/em> spoke with the two singer-songwriters together on a Zoom as they geared up for their mutual outing \u2014 McLachlan at home in Vancouver, British Columbia, and Russell in New York, where she was taking a momentary retreat from her Nashville home to finish up work on a long-planned memoir. (Scroll down for a full itinerary of their dates together, which just began and continue through Aug. 9.)<\/p>\n

\nAllison Russell:<\/strong> Because I\u2019ve been just running all the time, Sarah, I just finally, finally watched the Lilith Fair documentary (\u201cLilith Fair: Building a Mystery,\u201d available on Hulu). Oh my God.<\/p>\n

\nSarah McLachlan:<\/strong> Isn\u2019t it so good?<\/p>\n

\nRussell:<\/strong> I was like a puddle, crying. My daughter called me in the middle of it, because we FaceTime every day, and she was like, \u201cWhat is wrong with you?\u201d I was like, \u201cYou have to go watch Sarah\u2019s documentary right now.\u201d I\u2019m sure it\u2019s the same with your daughter, but our babies are so wrapped up in the \u201990s right now \u2014 with good reason. They\u2019re so tired of the psychological assault of AI and constant surveillance and weird digital spaces that can be manipulated. It\u2019s just so cool the way they\u2019re going back to zines and physical things. Last night my kid cut the call short because she was like, \u201cI\u2019m going to play D&D with my friends at Bongo Java\u201d (a Nashville coffeehouse). I was like, \u201cWhat year is it? It\u2019s 1995 again.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nMcLachlan:<\/strong> I think \u201cStranger Things,\u201d too, really kind of hugely brought a lot of that culture back.<\/p>\n

\nLilith Fair awareness is heightened again because of the documentary. It\u2019s difficult to compare a two-woman tour with an entire festival. But for people who are coming to the tour being excited about both of you, maybe they will be thinking, \u201cWe don\u2019t have to have a whole festival. Where two or more of us are gathered, we can have that feeling, again.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nMcLachlan:<\/strong> We\u2019re just carrying on the work \u2014 what we were doing before Lilith and what we continued to do at Lilith and after Lilith.<\/p>\n

\nRussell:<\/strong> The work that has never, ever stopped and never will stop.<\/p>\n

\nHow long have you two known each other now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nMcLachlan:<\/strong> It\u2019s been a couple years. When was the first Joni Jam?<\/p>\n

\nRussell:<\/strong> Well, the first (public) one was Newport (Folk Festival in 2022), but I didn\u2019t get to meet you there because you weren\u2019t at Newport. So Joni Jam at the Gorge in 2023 was when we met in real life for the first time.<\/p>\n

\nMcLachlan:<\/strong> We basically met on stage. There was a whole great circle of these incredible musicians. Allison and Annie Lennox and I sat on the couch right behind Joni and sang backups for her, and Allison and I kept looking at each other because Annie\u2019s in between the two of us\u2026<\/p>\n

\nRussell:<\/strong> \u201cHoly shit. How did we get here?\u201d Totally freaking out. Especially me. I got there the day before the Joni Jam Band, before y\u2019all, just for the technical setup. This was the second day of rehearsals before the show because we always really prep before Joni gets there, so that it sounds great and there\u2019s no obstacle to her just being brilliant and having the best time. And Brandi says to me, \u201cOK, you\u2019re gonna sit on this green velvet\u2026\u201d Like, it\u2019s basically a green velvet loveseat or couch\u2026<\/p>\n

\nMcLachlan:<\/strong> Settee!<\/p>\n

\nRussell:<\/strong> Settee<\/em>. Brandi sits me there, and she\u2019s like, \u201cOkay, so I\u2019m gonna put Sarah and Annie with you over here.\u201d I was like, \u201cCool.\u201d I\u2019m assuming these are Joni\u2019s occupational therapists or friends, because you know how it is at Joni Jam. Friends and family come, and we make it as much like Joni\u2019s living room as we can. Sarah and Annie were big surprises. And I walk in and I hear, \u201c\u2026and Sarah McLachlan.\u201d In my memory, we\u2019re arm in arm, laughing together, walking up the ramp to the stage. \u2026 I was so shocked and just trying to have a normal face if at all possible, which I don\u2019t think it was possible. I was probably looking at y\u2019all like a guppy flopping on the land or something. That was our first meeting. And it was, for me, shocking and kind of overwhelming at first. But then within five minutes, we\u2019re all just huge Joni Mitchell fans, and we\u2019re all just people, talking together, and then we get to sing our favorite songs with our favorite artist on the planet, who was foundational and formational to all of us as writers and artists.<\/p>\n

\nSo, not occupational-therapist Sarah, but musical-goddess-since-your-teens Sarah. That\u2019s a nice surprise, whether it was intentional on Brandi\u2019s part or not.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nMcLachlan:<\/strong> There was such instant kinship and sisterhood. This is a strange job that we have, and so to get those kind of experiences where right away I feel completely safe, held and supported, and we\u2019re all in this together, it was this instant bond and instant connection that was created.<\/p>\n

\nRussell:<\/strong> And the fact that it was at the Gorge, which was this triumphant moment where Lilith Fair showed her power \u2014 where you showed the power of circle work, Sarah\u2026<\/p>\n

\nMcLachlan:<\/strong> It was the first show (of the first Lilith Fair tour, on July 5, 1997).<\/p>\n

\nRussell:<\/strong> It wasn\u2019t an accident that that\u2019s where Brandi wanted to do the first real Joni Jam. Because the one at Newport was a surprise, and no one was sure if Joni would be up to it really. There was every possibility that it would just be mainly the guest artists, the jammers singing songs, and that she wouldn\u2019t feel up to it physically. And nobody could have predicted the way that she just seemed to gain strength from every note she sings with an audience and that circle work being so healing for her as well. So it was so special that the Gorge was where the first Lilith Fair was, and I could tell for Brandi how emotional that connection was. I remember Annie talking about how disillusioned she had gotten with the industry, and she was so sick of the toxic boys\u2019 club aspect of it, and it was healing for Annie \u2014 she\u2019s talked about it a lot since then \u2014 to be in that atmosphere that was matriarchal, that was woman-led, where men are totally welcome, but it\u2019s not about dominance or false hierarchies or competition. It\u2019s about community and mutual care and lifting each other up. And, Sarah, you modeled that with Lilith Fair, and Brandi took that torch, and then now we all get to bask in the light of it. And Joni and Annie, who blazed the trails before us through much more toxic times for women, certainly in the industry, got to be there\u2026 There\u2019s something so beautiful about how they got to be lifted up by the ones that they formed with their art and their bravery and their courage.<\/p>\n

\nMcLachlan:<\/strong> That multi-generational thing is really, really powerful.<\/p>\n

\nRussell:<\/strong> To be sitting with you and Annie through that and feeling that sense of intergenerational bonds, kinship, mitochondrial connection and healing \u2014 I\u2019ll never get over it as long as I live. And now I\u2019m so lucky because you\u2019re bringing me on your tour. The Rainbow Coalition (Russell\u2019s band) and I can\u2019t believe it. We\u2019re all pinching ourselves. This is as close as we\u2019re gonna get to Lilith Fair. We\u2019re so grateful.<\/p>\n

\nMcLachlan:<\/strong> Well, you\u2019re carrying that torch forward. I\u2019m super excited about the tour. I can\u2019t wait to meet you every night and hang out with you. These little mini-connections that we\u2019ve had create more of a stronger bond, and I\u2019m excited about that.<\/p>\n

\nRussell:<\/strong> Also, congrats to Sarah who just won her 14th Juno Award, by the way. There\u2019s something very auspicious to me about the twice-seven.<\/p>\n

\nIs that something that binds you, that figures into the spirit of this at all? There\u2019s so many clear points of connection that occur to me first, before I remember, \u201cOh, yes, both Canadian, too.\u201d Maybe that\u2019s not the least of them.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nMcLachlan:<\/strong> Yeah, there is a Canadian sisterhood going. I think that was a secondary. I didn\u2019t choose Allison because she\u2019s Canadian, but at the same time it\u2019s like\u2026 yeah, you are, right on!<\/p>\n

\nRussell<\/strong>: The first show we ever played together was un Toronto. And now the first show on this \u201cBetter Broken\u201d tour that I\u2019m gonna play with you is on Canada Day in Nashville, and there\u2019s something so powerful about that, symbolically, to me. There\u2019s just a beautiful, good Canadian trouble (making) in that. The idea of a bunch of powerful women making joyful noise on Canada Day in a state that is really attacking its own citizens right now is just so meaningful to me. Iit\u2019s the state that I\u2019ve called home for eight years now. Women\u2019s rights have been under direct attack in not just Tennessee, but across the U.S. and in many parts of the world. So there\u2019s just something to me so powerful and beautiful and healing about the creative matriarchy. Change and goodness happens when people can see themselves in better ways and see that there\u2019s ways to live together that don\u2019t have to be oppressive and violent and harmful and dehumanizing. That sounds grandiose, but that\u2019s what music does. That\u2019s what concerts do for us.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd the fact that a dollar from every ticket is going towards Sarah\u2019s School of Music. You probably don\u2019t know this, Sarah, but my niece is involved in a Sarah McLachlan School of Music program in Vancouver because her school didn\u2019t have a music program. Something was going on.<\/p>\n

\nMcLachlan:<\/strong> Right on.<\/p>\n

\nRussell:<\/strong> My niece loves it, so I\u2019m grateful that there\u2019s someone I know who\u2019s being directly impacted by the work you\u2019re doing too.<\/p>\n

\nMcLachlan:<\/strong> That\u2019s great. I mean, music is such an incredibly important bridge these days. And I know that\u2019s my role as a musician, as an artist, as a humanitarian, just to go out and make music and to spread love and connection as opposed to division and hatred. We get to keep building bridges and remind each other of our shared humanity, and I think that\u2019s a really important message.<\/p>\n

\nSarah, you could tour with just about anybody you want to. The opening act may or may not always be someone as high-profile as Allison. But this kind of double bill really strikes people\u2019s attention.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nRussell:<\/strong> I would stop you right there. It\u2019s definitely not a double bill. I\u2019m so proud to be opening for Sarah. As you say, she can take anybody she wants on the road.<\/p>\n

\nMcLachlan:<\/strong> Somebody has to go first. So, I mean, honestly, you know, I don\u2019t have any ego. I\u2019d be like, \u201cI\u2019ll go first so I can go to bed earlier.\u201d I\u2019m old.<\/p>\n

\nRussell:<\/strong> Oh, God. You\u2019re never gonna be old. You\u2019re timeless.<\/p>\n

\nMcLachlan:<\/strong> You know, I chose Allison because I absolutely love her energy. I love her music. It\u2019s deep soul, deep pain, transported into deep joy. And it\u2019s so beautiful, and I want to be able to listen to her every night. I just felt like her music, though it\u2019s very different and kind of in a different genre, there\u2019s a lot of commonalities that I think connect us. It goes back to that really basic we all want to be part of something bigger than ourselves. It\u2019s like church for me, and communion, and just tapping into that spirituality and that sense of connectivity to our own emotions and to everybody else around us. For a couple hours, just to forget madness and be part of something beautiful.<\/p>\n

\nRussell:<\/strong> That resonates so deeply for me, Sarah. I\u2019m someone who grew up in a broken childhood, and there\u2019s some religious trauma in there. But I call myself a hopeful agnostic. To me, music is spiritual, it is sacred, it is holy. That\u2019s my ritual. Those are my liturgies. Those are the things that I find compelling and that I return to again and again is to be in creative communion, and not just with beautiful musicians like you and and the Rainbow Coalition and your amazing band, White Horse, but with the audience too, because when they come, they complete the circle. We\u2019re one half up on the stage, and they\u2019re the other half, and it\u2019s the closest thing I know to alchemy and magic and divinity that I can access. Literally what happens to us biophysically, which is so fascinating \u2014 there\u2019s so much great science around it now too that I find so thrilling \u2014 it just confirms what we\u2019ve always known, that what happens when we\u2019re experiencing a live show together, particularly music, is that our limbic systems link up. No matter how different we think we are, our breathing starts to go into sync. Our serotonin levels are boosted. Our cortisol levels go down to almost zero. It\u2019s fascinating and literally biochemical, what happens when we\u2019re engaged in this sacred practice together. I love that, and just the fact that you are speaking of it in such a similar way reinforces to me that I\u2019m aligned, and I\u2019m where I should be, and I\u2019m so lucky to be doing this with you.<\/p>\n

\nMcLachlan:<\/strong> Thank you. I\u2019m lucky to have you come do it with me, and I feel the same way. I am much less articulate than you about it, but I just feel so incredibly lucky and blessed that this is what I get to do. It feels very purposeful on so many levels, and how lucky am I to have found that?<\/p>\n

\nRussell:<\/strong> But how lucky are we that you do that and give us that? And who knows that I would even be doing this now if you didn\u2019t. Because, you know, Sarah\u2019s song \u201cMary\u201d was the first song that I ever sang in public. It was at my high school, which was an alternative high school in Montreal called MIND \u2014 Moving in New Directions \u2014 where we had the most amazing group of ragtag little misfits. So many of my closest circle from that school in the \u201990s have gone on to do world-shifting creative work, like my friend Jacob Tierney just wrote a show that changed the world called \u201cHeated Rivalry,\u201d and Ethan Tobman went on to design the sets for Beyonc\u00e9 and the Taylor Swift Eras Tour\u2014 wild things for these kids that were at one time considered kind of throwaway children in our particular society at that time. But at that time, I was terrified to sing. My friend Kim Waldron was learning guitar, and you were all of our favorite singer. A bunch of my friends went to Lilith Fair when it came through, and I couldn\u2019t go because I was working a terrible telemarketing job because I had left home at 15. Your music and Ani DiFranco\u2019s and Tracy Chapman\u2019s was on our tape deck 24\/7. So when my friend Kim was afraid to sing, she asked me to come sing \u201cMary\u201d while she played it on the guitar, at our little monthly school coffeehouse in the tenth grade. So you to me are foundational in my art. I\u2019m really grateful.<\/p>\n

\nYou both will have fresh material to play on the tour. Sarah, we talked about your \u201cBetter Broken\u201d album when it came out late last year, and however much of that you\u2019re able to work into the set, people will enjoy. And Allison will have a new album out by then too\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nMcLachlan:<\/strong> Yeah, I mean, I\u2019m fully aware that my fans want to hear the stuff that they know and love, and I\u2019m always really cognizant of that. So I\u2019m gonna be doing all of those songs and sort of peppering in the newer material, just to ease people into it, because I know they\u2019re not that familiar with it. It\u2019s what I\u2019m most excited about, but I sort of have to manage all the different expectations. But I\u2019m been getting excited as we\u2019ve discussed setlists and been building the visuals.<\/p>\n

\nRussell:<\/strong> I can\u2019t wait to see what you do. You remind me of Joni in that way of just how you have a visual gift as well. You\u2019re very involved in what it looks like.<\/p>\n

\nMcLachlan:<\/strong> Well, I see in pictures, and I mean, I hear in pictures too, you know. So whenever I\u2019m writing a song, I\u2019ll often have visuals attached to it, or at least colors, or this kind of parallel universe that happens visually as well. \u2026 I can\u2019t wait to hear your new material. When\u2019s your record coming out?<\/p>\n

\nRussell:<\/strong> It\u2019s called \u201cIn the Hour of Chaos,\u201d and it\u2019s gonna drop on July 10th, so right at the beginning of our tour. It\u2019s like this album release gift to us that we get to go on tour with you.<\/p>\n

\nThe McLachlan\/Russell \u201cBetter Broken\u201d 2026 tour dates:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tWed Jul 1 \u2013 Franklin, TN \u2013 FirstBank Amphitheater
Fri Jul 3 \u2013 Atlanta, GA \u2013 Synovus Bank Amphitheater at Chastain Park
Sun Jul 5 \u2013 Vienna, VA \u2013 Wolf Trap Filene Center*
Tue Jul 7 \u2013 Philadelphia, PA \u2013 TD Pavilion at Highmark Mann
Wed Jul 8 \u2013 Bridgeport, CT \u2013 Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater
Fri Jul 10 \u2013 Boston, MA \u2013 Leader Bank Pavilion
Sat Jul 11 \u2013 Forest Hills, NY \u2013 Forest Hills Stadium
Sun Jul 12 \u2013 Gilford, NH \u2013 BankNH Pavilion
Tue Jul 14 \u2013 Lewiston, NY \u2013 Artpark Outdoor Amphitheater
Wed Jul 15 \u2013 Sterling Heights, MI \u2013 Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre at Freedom Hill
Fri Jul 17 \u2013 Grand Rapids, MI \u2013 Acrisure Amphitheater
Sat Jul 18 \u2013 Chicago, IL \u2013 Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
Sun Jul 19 \u2013 Indianapolis, IN \u2013 Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park
Tue Jul 21 \u2013 Cincinnati, OH \u2013 PNC Pavilion
Thu Jul 23 \u2013 Maryland Heights, MO \u2013 Saint Louis Music Park
Fri Jul 24 \u2013 Kansas City, MO \u2013 Starlight Theatre
Sun Jul 26 \u2013 Irving, TX \u2013 The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
Tue Jul 28 \u2013 Morrison, CO \u2013 Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Thu Jul 30 \u2013 West Valley City, UT \u2013 Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre
Sat Aug 1 \u2013 Concord, CA \u2013 Toyota Pavilion at Concord
Sun Aug 2 \u2013 San Diego, CA \u2013 Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
Tue Aug 4 \u2013 Los Angeles, CA \u2013 Greek Theatre
Fri Aug 7 \u2013 Bend, OR \u2013 Hayden Homes Amphitheater
Sat Aug 8 \u2013 Woodinville, WA \u2013 Chateau Ste Michelle Winery
Sun Aug 9 \u2013 Woodinville, WA \u2013 Chateau Ste Michelle Winery<\/p>\n

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