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The first Glastonbury Festivals, most notable for being the forerunners of Glastonbury Festival, were a series of cultural events founded by communist activist and composer Rutland Boughton, which were held in summer from 1914 to 1925 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England.
Both pressures are captured in the 1992 Channel 4 documentary Showdown at Glastonbury. [36] NME stage at the 1993 festival. An expanded festival returned in 1992, and this proved a great success. [37] 1992 was the first year that the new age travellers were not initially allowed onto the site free, and a sturdier fence was designed. [38]
The founder of the world-famous Glastonbury Festival has been made a Freeman of Glastonbury. Born in 1935, the celebrated dairy farmer held his first Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton in 1970. 52 years later, Mr. Eavis has been listed by Time magazine as one of the top 100 most influential people in the world. [196]
This year is the first in Glastonbury’s 54-year history where there are more female-fronted headline acts than male. Dua Lipa is headlining Glastonbury Festival on Friday 28 June (AFP via Getty)
Festival mainstay Coldplay—Chris Martin and his bandmates have headlined Glastonbury five times—will return to the Pyramid Stage on Saturday night for the first time since 2016. British rapper ...
St. Edgar's and St. Mary's Chapels, Glastonbury Abbey, c. 1860, by Frank M Good Suggestions that Glastonbury may have been a site of religious importance in Celtic or pre-Celtic times are considered dubious by the historian Ronald Hutton, [1] but archaeological investigations by the University of Reading have demonstrated Roman and Saxon occupation of the site.
Music fans still have a chance to purchase standard tickets which go on sale at 09:00 GMT on Sunday.
The first teases of the 2024 line-up came in October 2023 prior to the ticket sale, when festival organizer Emily Eavis confirmed that the Legends slot performer was a female artist, and hinted that there could be two female headliners, after she had initially booked a female artist for the 2023 festival who pulled out and had to be replaced by Guns N' Roses. [2]