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...No one in recent pop memory has been a greater enemy to the authentic than Lady Gaga... Not long ago she was playing confessional piano music in tiny New York rooms... Lady Gaga has become successful by adhering to the belief that there’s no inner truth to be advertised, or salvaged: all one can do is invent anew. It wasn’t that long ago when artifice appeared to be on its last leg. In the mid-to-late-1990s female performers especially were in a confessional place, a movement captured and branded by Lilith Fair... ...About one-third of the original dates have been canceled,...

The concert business is supposed to be the music industry's one sure thing. But not this summer. The Eagles, Rihanna and Maxwell have canceled tour dates. A wobbling "American Idol" tour has flooded the market with discounted tickets, and the resurrected Lilith Fair tour has called off concerts from Dallas to Salt Lake City. Even teen idols the Jonas Brothers announced this week that they're scrapping some shows. * * * With the continued evaporation of recorded music sales, acts at all levels of the talent pool must lean heavily on their live-performance earnings. That's forcing artists to tour more,...

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...

Lilith Fair Drops Pregnancy Centers From Charity List, Keeps Abortion Biz Washington, DC -- Four days after it first received national attention for including crisis pregnancy centers in its list of potential charity recipients, organizers of the typically pro-abortion Lilith Fair dropped them from consideration. Officials also dropped a pro-abortion group but kept another and kept a group of maternity homes. http://LifeNews.com/nat6217.html

Recently revived woman-centric traveling music festival Lilith Fair announced yesterday that in each of its 36 host cities it would donate a dollar from every ticket sold to a women's charity. After becoming a fan of the fest on its official Facebook page, people can vote for which organization in their town they want Lilith's bucks to benefit. The pulldown menu includes about ten choices for most cities, most of them women's shelters or health centers for the underserved, with a synopsis of the services each offers. Minneapolis and Indianapolis fans are given the option of supporting Metro Women's Center...