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The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts held near Pilton, Somerset, England, in most summers.
2016 Glastonbury Festival
Michael Eavis, co-creator of the festival, at Glastonbury Festival 2010
The Pyramid Stage in 1985. Due to heavy rainfall, a large area of mud covered this area.
NME stage at the 1993 festival
Michael Eavis
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Sir Athelstan Joseph Michael Eavis is an English dairy farmer and the co-creator of the Glastonbury Festival, which takes place at his farm in Pilton, Somerset.
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…of these traditions are retained in the Green Fields area, which includes sections known as the Green Futures, the Stone Circle and Healing Field. Michael Eavis hosted the first festival, then called the Pilton Festival, after seeing an open-air Led Zeppelin concert in 1970 at the Bath Festival of Blues and…
Eavis in 2024
Eavis in 2005
Jeremy Corbyn and Eavis together on the Pyramid Stage at the 2017 Glastonbury Festival
A pair of Eavis's Wellington boots on display at the Museum of English Rural Life in Reading