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Lilith, Sarah McLachlan's all-female concert tour, has cancelled yet another date - but says this will be the final cancellation.

The show scheduled for Atlanta has been cut, joining 12 other previously-announced cancellations, including the Montreal concert.

A Lilith posting on Twitter reads: "Today's cancellation of the August 8 Atlanta show is the last. There will be no further cancellations." McLachlan will perform a solo show with a yet-to-be-announced special guest at another Atlanta venue on August 5 instead.

At Lilith's show in West Vancouver on Thursday, the day 10 Lilith cancellations were announced, festival co-founder Terry McBride said it's been a difficult summer for live music, period and that Lilith in fact was doing better than other concert tours.

"Guess what? The summer sucks. It's sucking for everybody else."

McBride also blamed media reports that concentrated on poor ticket sales as opposed to the positive aspects of Lilith for exacerbating the problem.

"It sucks," said McLachlan, about Lilith's cancellations.

"It's a bummer for everybody," added Sheryl Crow, one of the tour's headliners.

The original Lilith Fair ran from 1997 to 1999, and was a commercial and critical success. It also raised millions of dollars for women's charities.

"What I brought away from [the original Lilith Fair]the most was a sense of community that was created for me as a musician, as a woman," McLachlan, who lives in West Vancouver, said on Thursday. "Hurtling along in our little microcosms as we do, we rarely get the opportunity to be with each other, to spend time together, to get to know each other, to share stories, to share our music. And for me, I miss that. I came to really miss it. And the older I get, I recognize the need for tribe, for community, for sisterhood."

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