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Another AMAZING year at The Park with some beautiful new additions.

Welcome to the History pages, which chart the events at the Festival since it began the day after Jimi Hendrix died, in 1970. To begin your wander down memory lane, select a year from the list on the ...

The Festival moved to the time of the Summer Solstice and was known as the “Glastonbury Fair”. It had been planned by Andrew Kerr and Arabella Churchill who felt all other festivals at the time were ...

Again there were once again complications with the local council over the granting of the Festival licence. The Police were bought into the organisation and planning of the Festival for the first time ...

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2024 marked the 40th anniversary of The Green Fields and we want to say a special thank you to Liz Eliot and the fantastic Green Fields team who have kept, and continue to keep, the heart of the ...

The first Festival was held on the day after Jimi Hendrix died, over a two day period and before long “word had got around”. It was the Blues festival at the Bath & West Showground that had inspired ...

This was the first year that the donations from the profits of the Festival were made to Greenpeace and Oxfam. Michael Eavis felt that with the ending of the Cold War that people’s concerns had ...

The 25th anniversary of the first Festival was celebrated and saw the return of the two performers from the first event – Keith Christmas and Al Stewart. Demand for the tickets had never been so ...

1983 called for a licence to be obtained for the event since the introduction of the local Government Act became law, giving local authorities the power to regulate such events by stipulating the ...

Acts included: Echo & The Bunnymen, Aswad, Joe Cocker, Style Council and The Boomtown Rats. Attendance: 40,000.Tickets: £16. Programme: 90p.