Sarah McLachlan and Pyrrha launch Lilith talisman for music charity

Sarah McLachlan has given Lilith Fair a new form: a $400 pendant that sends $100 from every sale to the Sarah McLachlan School of Music. The Lilith talisman, made from 100 percent reclaimed sterling silver in Pyrrha’s certified zero-carbon Vancouver studio, ties a famous feminist music moment to a very concrete act of support.

The piece leans hard into symbolism. Pyrrha frames Lilith as “the ever mysterious, misrepresented feminine divine” and casts the figure as “the original feminist,” a shorthand for independence, fire and self-worth. That language matches the object’s purpose: a wearable reminder of reclaiming power, voice and autonomy, not just another inspirational charm dressed up in fine-metal packaging.

McLachlan called the collaboration a “full circle moment,” and the phrase lands because Lilith Fair itself was always bigger than a tour. Founded in 1997 and running through 1999, with a revival in 2010, the all-female festival challenged a male-dominated industry and quickly became a cultural force. It sold out many dates and grossed more than $16 million in its first summer, which explains why its iconography still resonates more than two decades later.

The charity math is unusually direct. A quarter of the retail price goes straight to the school McLachlan founded in 2002, and the school says it now serves more than 1,100 young musicians each year, with official pages describing close to 1,200 youth in British Columbia and Alberta. Pyrrha’s own product page says the school provides free music education to more than 2,000 children and youth each year who face barriers to access. In a jewelry market crowded with vague promises, that kind of line-item giving is refreshingly plain.

Danielle Papin said McLachlan approached Pyrrha with the idea of translating her original Lilith Fair artwork into jewelry and helped shape the piece from start to finish. Papin also said McLachlan was a longtime Pyrrha customer, which helps explain why the pendant reads less like a celebrity endorsement than a meeting of shared values. Pyrrha’s broader credentials, including B Corp certification, Responsible Jewellery Council membership, Living Wage employer status, 1% for the Planet participation and Positive Luxury’s Butterfly Mark, make the collaboration feel aligned rather than opportunistic.

The result is a talisman with actual weight, cultural and material: a pendant that carries the memory of a watershed festival, the ethics of a smaller studio practice and the immediate funding of music education for young people who need it most.