Music & Gigs

Glastonbury Festival

Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4BY

🕐Annual festival — typically late June (Wednesday to Sunday, 5 days)

About

Step through the gates of Worthy Farm and into the world's largest greenfield festival — a magnificent, mud-soaked city under canvas sprawling across 900 acres of Somerset's mythic Vale of Avalon. For five days each June, over 200,000 souls gather beneath the shadow of the Pyramid Stage for a kaleidoscopic collision of music, theatre, circus, comedy, and countercultural spirit. Founded in 1970 by farmer Michael Eavis, Glastonbury is not merely a festival but a living British institution — part ritual, part revolution, part homecoming.

Heritage

World's Largest Greenfield Festival

Founded on 19 September 1970 by Somerset dairy farmer Michael Eavis — inspired by the Bath Festival and held the day after Jimi Hendrix's death — Glastonbury has grown from a 1,500-person gathering charging £1 into the world's largest greenfield music and performing arts festival. Held on 900 acres of Worthy Farm in the Vale of Avalon, the site carries deep mythological resonance: said to be the burial place of King Arthur and where ancient ley lines converge. The iconic Pyramid Stage — originally a one-tenth scale replica of the Great Pyramid of Giza, built from scaffolding in 1971 — remains the festival's spiritual centrepiece and one of the most recognisable stages in the world. Each year the festival donates millions to charity partners including Oxfam, Greenpeace, and WaterAid, cementing its identity as a force for culture and conscience.