Sarah McLachlan

And that is the environment that I wanted to create.

for everybody there it's like this is an extension of me of my of my hospitality of my ethos yes you know this is how you want to work be respectful treat treat everybody the way you want to be treated yourself yeah you know like live and let live let people be and let's just I know sounds very woo-woo and utopian I'm still like that though I mean I just man it's like

Yeah.

I mean, we, the, the big adjustment was very early on, which was like, you know, white chick folk fest.

And I mean, I, I knew that was coming and I was, I agreed with that.

I, you know, and I was frustrated by it because we asked everybody, we asked all these different artists from all different genres of music.

But,

you know, to, to be fair, their management teams would look at the lineup so far and go, I'm not sure where the place is for my artists in this.

Yeah.

And you know, in my head, my naive head, I'm like, I listened to all different kinds of music.

I know that most of my friends who are fans of music, they don't listen to just one genre.

They, it just depends on their mood they have.

So why are we being so, um, you know, uh,

And minimizing of the, you know, and sort of looking at our fans and going, oh, they can't handle this.

Of course they can handle it.

They want it.

They're hungry for it.

And so to create that opportunity that, you know, for all of us to showcase our unique talents, which is, again, it just, it felt like the most natural thing in the world.

And so it was, but it was a struggle to get those, get a lot of, you know, black and brown artists for sure.

Like, I don't know where my place is.