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Olivia Rodrigo’s Daisy Chain Fields Sells Out and Pledges $10 Million to Women’s Charities

The one-day, women- and gender-diverse festival will direct 100% of net proceeds to ten nonprofit partners as a model for music-driven funding of reproductive and maternal services.

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Overview

  • Organizers announced that Daisy Chain Fields, which ran at Great Park in Irvine and sold out for its Aug. 29 date, generated $10 million to be distributed across ten named nonprofits serving women and girls.
  • The grants will be split among groups focused on reproductive health, maternal care, domestic-worker protections and services for survivors of gender-based violence, including Planned Parenthood, the Center for Reproductive Rights, Black Mamas Matter Alliance and Baby2Baby.
  • Rodrigo and many artists waived performance fees and producers secured sponsor support to reach the fundraising total, while last-minute lineup changes replaced KATSEYE with Devon Again and Santigold.
  • The festival built civic engagement into its footprint with a ‘Daisy Chain Reaction’ philanthropy village, volunteer drives through L.A. Works and HeadCount-driven civic actions that aimed to connect fans to services and advocacy.
  • Organizers ran the event at scale—two non-overlapping stages for about 45,000 attendees—with strict no-official-resale rules, warnings about counterfeit wristbands, heat and cooling plans, and added Metrolink post-event trains for transit.