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The
Glastonbury Festival of
Contemporary Performing Arts is
scheduled to be held in June
. Tickets for the festival went
on sale from 9 am on Sunday 7
October , over 37 weeks before
the festival was set to begin.
The
Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary
Performing Arts is a performing arts
festival that takes place near
Pilton, Somerset, England, best
known for its contemporary music,
but also for dance, comedy, theatre,
circus, cabaret and other arts. The
festival organiser Michael Eavis, a
farmer in a Somerset valley stated
that he decided to host the first
festival, then called Pilton
Festival, after seeing an open air
Led Zeppelin concert at the Bath
Festival of Blues and Progressive
Music 1970. Fourteen people,
including John Hoare, invested
everything they had to build the
stage.
The
first festivals in the 1970s were
influenced by hippie ethics and the
free festival movement. The festival
retains vestiges of this tradition
such as the Green Fields area which
includes the Green Futures and
Healing Field. After the 1970s the
festival took place almost every
year and grew in size, with the
number of attendees sometimes being
swollen by gate-crashers.
Pilton
is a village and civil parish in
Somerset, England, situated on the
A361 road in the Mendip district, 3
miles (5 km) south-west of Shepton
Mallet and 6 miles (10 km) east of
Glastonbury. The village has a
population of 935. The parish
includes the hamlets of West
Compton, East Compton, Westholme,
Beardly Batch and Cannards Grave.
Pilton is famous as the location of
the Glastonbury Festival, which is
run by Pilton farmer Michael Eavis
and his daughter Emily Eavis. Being
the village at which the festival is
held, all villagers get a free
ticket.
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