Glastonbury Festival Facts for Kids

Glastonbury Festival in 2003

The Glastonbury Festival is a very big music festival. It is held at Worthy Farm near Glastonbury, Somerset, England, most years, during the last weekend in June. About 100,000 people come to the festival every time. The festival is hosted and organized by local farmer Michael Eavis. It is a widely known festival with many big and popular bands playing there every year.

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Michael Eavis in 2010
The Pyramid Stage in 1985. A large area of mud covered this area.
NME stage at the 1993 festival
4 Goes to Glastonbury, first live TV coverage in 1994
Techno music is played on a sound system at dawn, Glastonbury 2000.
Pennard Hill, 2004
The view from the stone circle on Thursday afternoon, 2004
A stream runs through a tent after two inches of rain fell in an hour on Friday morning of the 2005 festival.
Mud at the "Other Stage" 2007
Jazz World field on the opening afternoon of the 2007 festival
View over the Glastonbury Festival, 2009
Beyoncé performing during Glastonbury Festival in 2011
The new bridge dedicated to Arabella Churchill, which was built in 2010
Glastonbury in 2011
Coldplay performing "Adventure of a Lifetime", during their headline setlist at Glastonbury 2016. The performance was their fifth at the festival, and a record-setting fourth as headliners.
Actor Bradley Cooper appeared onstage at the 2017 Glastonbury Festival and was filmed for what would later be a scene used for his 2018 film A Star Is Born.
Jeremy Corbyn and Michael Eavis together on the Pyramid Stage at the 2017 Glastonbury Festival
The festival site in 2002
Glastonbury Festival's "Other Stage" in 2004 with tents in the foreground

Glastonbury Festival facts for kids

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