Food vendor at Daisy Chain Fields shares open letter to Olivia Rodrigo over unpaid fees and poor management

A food vendor who worked at Olivia Rodrigo’s inaugural Daisy Chain Fields festival has penned an open letter to the singer, claiming that there were unpaid fees and poor management.

• READ MORE: Daisy Chain Fields 2026 review: Olivia Rodrigo’s all-women festival is a beautiful, empowering triumph.

Inspired by the Lilith Fair music festivals of the ’90s, the single-day event took place at the end of August at Great Park in Irvine, California – hosting performances from from Chappell Roan, Bikini Kill, Doechii, Garbage and more, and raising money for charities and community-focused organisations.

These included Baby2Baby, Black Mamas Matter Alliance, Center For Reproductive Rights, FreeFrom, Johns Hopkins Center For Indigenous Health, National Women’s Law Center and Planned Parenthood, and you can find out more about the work of the organisations here.

Agora, após o evento de um dia que terminou no início deste verão, um dos vendedores de comida que trabalhou no festival escreveu uma carta aberta a Rodrigo, alegando que enfrentou má gestão e ficou com taxas não pagas.

Ela também compartilhou que, embora tenha sido “hesitante em compartilhar” os problemas publicamente por temer que isso pudesse prejudicar a reputação de sua empresa, agora estava fazendo isso na esperança de obter uma resposta.

In her open letter, she began by thanking the singer for “organising such a safe and historic event”, and said that it was a “privilege” to be involved – especially as Rodrigo’s music “has gotten me through some of my hardest days”.

Examples of poor management Chacon detailed included being told about big purchases they had to make at the “last minute” for the appearance at the festival to go ahead, as well as not receiving “setup information until a few hours before we were supposed to arrive”; meaning that they struggled to get on-site.

At the event, the letter claimed, they “did not see a lot customers” and ended up hearing from some concertgoers that they were unaware that there was food available in that section of the festival site.

NME has reached out to a spokesperson for Daisy Chain Fields and for Olivia Rodrigo for comment about the claims made by Chacon.

Durante o set principal de Olivia Rodrigo no festival, ela foi acompanhada por Stevie Nicks, Alanis Morissette e Sarah McLachlan, interpretando 'Landslide', 'Ironic', 'Building A Mystery' e 'Angel.

NME gave the festival a four-and-a-half star review, celebrating it as “a beautiful, empowering triumph”.

Desde que o festival terminou, Rodrigo iniciou sua enorme turnê mundial 'Unraveled' em Connecticut – que contou com apresentações ao vivo de músicas de seu terceiro álbum, 'You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love.

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