The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury, is a British performing arts festival, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts. The first festival was held on the 19th September 1970. Read more
The gates at the Glastonbury Festival have opened. Some 170,000 people and 40,000 vehicles are expected on the site at Worthy Farm in Pilton with about one third due to arrive by public transport. Read more
Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis has praised festival-goers' spirit after heavy rain blighted the three-day event. Mr Eavis, who began the festival on his Somerset farm in 1970, said the weekend had "gone very, very well, in spite of the rain and mud".