Glastonbury Festival

Month : June
Place : Glastonbury, England
Famous For : Arts Festival
Attractions : Contemporary Music & Arts, Dance, comedy, Theatre, Circus, Cabaret.

The Glastonbury Festival is world's most enormous outdoor performing arts festival. It's a popular festival of Contemporary Performing Arts held in South West England. The actual venue for this festival is at Worthy Farm between the small villages of Pilton and Pylle, six miles east of the town of Glastonbury. The main highlight of this festival is contemporary music, but also other features like dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts add to the variety of this frolic event.

Major Attractions

The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is also famous as Glastonbury or Glasto. Comprising 900 acres of euphoric partying and chilled-out fun in its many forms, The Glastonbury Festival offers all crammed annually into the last weekend in June. This three day event includes headlining rock bands surrounded by worshipful crowds of teenage fans at the pyramid stage, whole fields of nostalgic, flower power-fuelled proponents of alternative therapies and everything imaginable in between. At Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts , high-profile bands, celebrities in their best sloppy outfits and camping alongside 150,000 other dedicated music lovers are the major highlights which cast a spell on you. This festival traces its origin back in between 1914 and 1926. During those days, a series of concerts, lectures and recitals called the Glastonbury Festivals were established with a summer school in the town of Glastonbury by classical composer Rutland Boughton (1878"1960). This location attracted a bohemian audience by the passage of time featuring works by then-contemporary composers, as well as a wide range of traditional works, from Everyman to James Shirley's Cupid and Death