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Glastonbury

1997–present

The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is the largest greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. The festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts. For 2005, the enclosed area of the festival was over 900 acres, had over 385 live performances and was attended by around 150,000 people. While the villagers of Pilton have been complaining about the noise generated during the weekend for many years, in 2007 over 700 acts played on over 80 stages. Glastonbury was heavily influenced by hippie ethics and the free festival movement in the 1970s, especially the Isle of Wight Festival.

First aired
27 Jun 1997
Episode length
57 min
Country
United States
Language
English
Elsewhere
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Seasons · 860 episodes

  • Glastonbury 1997

    Season 1 · 1997

    Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts returned in 1997 after 1996's fallow year. The attendance was 90,000 and tickets cost £75 including official programme. What was different this year was a a major sponsorship from The Guardian and the BBC, who had taken over televising the event from Channel 4. This was also the year of the mud, with the site suffering severe rainfalls which turned the entire site into a muddy bog.

  • Glastonbury 2014

    Season 18 · 2014

    The 2014 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts was held between 25 and 29 June 2014.

  • Glastonbury 2015

    Season 19 · 2015

  • Glastonbury 2016

    Season 20 · 2016

  • Glastonbury 2017

    Season 21 · 2017

  • Glastonbury 2019

    Season 23 · 2019

    The 2019 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts took place between 26 and 30 June. The three headlining acts were Stormzy, the Killers, and The Cure. This was the last regular edition until 2022 when the subsequent two editions were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, known as enforced "fallow" years. Kylie Minogue's much anticipated performance in the Legends time slot became the most viewed Glastonbury performance in the festival’s history with 3.9 million viewers, marking the Australian's return to the festival after being forced to pull out in 2005 after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Partway through the Killers' set the stage was swept by Jimmy Carr.

  • Glastonbury 2021 (Live at Worthy Farm)

    Season 25 · 2021

    In 2021, Glastonbury produced a film recorded on the Glastonbury site, Live at Worthy Farm, with performances by acts including Coldplay, Haim, and Damon Albarn.

  • Glastonbury 2022

    Season 26 · 2022