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Sarah McLachlan to receive the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Visionary Award from New York Governor, George E. Pataki, on July 14

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Three time Grammy Award winning recording artist and Lilith Fair founder Sarah McLachlan was to receive the Elizabeth Cady Stanton Visionary Award from New York Governor, George E. Pataki on July 14.

This award marks the 150th anniversary of the first women's rights convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a visionary who penned the Declaration of Sentiments which laid the foundation for women's equality. The Governor's Commission Honoring the Achievements of Women felt that Sarah McLachlan's creation of Lilith Fair was a visionary venture, that promoted fellow female artists making her the epitome for this prestigious award.

Lilith Fair was the first ever all women concert event tour that provided a forum for female performers to share audiences, collaborate musically and raise contemporary issues effecting all generations of women. The festival tour flourished into one of the most successful concert tours of the last two years. Lilith Fair is currently on a nationwide 56 date festival tour featuring some of the top and up and coming contemporary female artists.

Later that same evening, Arista Records President, Clive Davis was to host a party for Sarah and present her with a plaque commemorating sales exceeding three million albums of Surfacing. The Surfacing album produced three Grammy awards for McLachlan earlier this year. Sarah McLachlan born in Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada in 1968 has amassed career album records sales exceeding seven million units.

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