SARAH MCLACHLAN: Returning to Music on My Terms

AFTER TAKING A BREAK TO RAISE HER DAUGHTERS, THE SINGER IS BACK WITH NEW MUSIC-AND REFLECTING ON HER LEGACY

- By ILANA KAPLAN

Happy to Pass the Baton McLachlan (performing in 2022) has no plans to revive Lilith Fair but says she'd "come and perform" if someone else did.

For the past three months, any mention of becoming an “empty nester” would move Sarah McLachlan to tears. “I would just start leaking!” the Canadian singer-songwriter, 57, says from her home in British Columbia. “Like, ‘Oh my God, what’s happening to me?’” Mom to daughters India, 23, and Taja, 18, McLachlan says she's gradually been “learning to let go” as her youngest heads to college. “I want her to go out in the world, make her own way and figure things out,” she says, adding that she plans to keep "really busy" to soften the blow of the transition.