The Glade Area was spawned from the Avalon Field back in the late ’90s. The Avalon stage music was broadening from its pure English folk music. We mixed up traditional folk like the Peat Bog Faeries, Roy harper, John Martyn and the Martin Carthy, with Afro Celt Sound System, Ozric Tentacles, System Seven, Squarepusher and […]

1989 was a pivotal year at the at Glastonbury Festival. Fresh from the Kingston Green Fair in a borrowed Playbus from Merton Council, it was the year that the concept of a green future in a festival was launched by Kim McGavin and David Taylor with a crescent of small marquees. This was also the […]

The information we have gathered is to give a tiny glimpse into the changes this tree has seen. We hope to find out more about the land around it, the changes over the years to the farm and families that lived nearby, the railway coming and going, the festival coming and growing, to maybe give […]

Welcome to the History pages, which chart the events at the Festival since it began the day after Jimi Hendrix died, in 1970. To begin your wander down memory lane, select a year from the list on the right… (Image above from 1971, by Peter Ball)

  SPEAKERS FORUM, GREEN FUTURES FIELD 2023 PROGRAMME Click here for talk descriptions Wednesday 21st  1pm Ocean Protection – Will McCallum 2pm Living and working like the climate is changing. – Rebecca Gibbs 3pm Adventures in Democracy – Jamie Kelsey Fry 4pm Progressive Alliances and Climate -Frances Foley 5pm  Activists Masterclass Jamie Kelsey Fry 6pm […]

Ticket price: £280 Capacity: 210,000 After a two year Covid break, Glastonbury Festival returned at full strength in ’22. ‘It’s great to be back!’, a quote from a delighted Emily Eavis during the build, became the headline for the first issue of the Glastonbury Free Press, the official site newspaper. And the world’s media were […]

The Atchin Tan / Stopping Place Found in the Theatre And Circus field, The Stopping Place, or ‘Atchin Tan’ in Romanes, is named after the now virtually non-existent traditional stopping places across the country, where Gypsies and Travellers would stop to rest for a few days. The Atchin Tan is the focal point for a […]

From the very beginning, Glastonbury Festival was established to celebrate music, culture and togetherness – inspiring a respect for both our environment and each other. This passion for the arts and all people still underpins the Festival today, and we continue to strive towards a culturally rich, inclusive and accepting world both at Glastonbury Festival […]

And in collaboration Alejandra Cuesta Alejandra Cuesta, director and founder of ExpressArte London. International cultural promoter with extensive experience in marketing, massive event management and community projects in Mexico and the United Kingdom for more than 20 consecutive years. She has been part of The Common team since 2011, introducing Latino bands and DJs into […]

With our history firmly rooted in activism and our profound connection with our rural heritage, all of us at Glastonbury Festival are passionately committed to creating a cleaner, more fair, sustainable future for all. Here are a few things we’re proud to have achieved on our journey so far. We will continue to embrace new, […]