New York, Sep 22 : The ladies of Lilith Fair are standing with Jimmy Kimmel amid the premiere of their ABC News documentary on Hulu.

Following ABC News Studios‘ cancelation of Sunday’s red carpet for the Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery premiere, music fest founder Sarah McLachlan announced that she and the rest of the evening’s scheduled talents would not be performing amid widespread backlash to Disney‘s announcement that Jimmy Kimmel Live! will be “preempted indefinitely.“

“It’s a gift for all of us to see [this film], but also I’ve grappled with being here tonight and around what to say about the present situation that we are all faced with, the stark contraction to the many advances we’ve made watching the insidious erosion of women’s rights, of trans and queer rights, the muzzling of free speech,” she said in her introduction. “I think we’re all fearful for what comes next, and none of us know, but what I do know is that I have to keep pushing forward as an artist, as a woman to find a way through, and though I don’t begin to know what the answer is, I believe we all need to work towards a softening to let in the possibility of a better way, because I see music as a bridge to our shared humanity, to finding common ground.”