Glastonbury Festival 2020 Canceled Due to Coronavirus

Festival, set to take place June 24th-28th on Worthy Farm in Somerset, U.K., has been canceled by the promoters.

“We are so sorry to announce this, but Glastonbury 2020 will have to be canceled, and this will be an enforced fallow year for the festival,” the festival wrote in a statement on Twitter from organizers Michael Eavis and Emily Eavis. “Clearly this was not a course of action we hoped to take for our 50th anniversary event, but following the new government measures announced this week – and in times of such unprecedented uncertainty – this is now our only viable option.

“We very much hope that the situation in the U.K. will have improved enormously by the end of June,” the statement continued. “But even if it has, we are no longer able to spend the next three months with thousands of crew here on the farm, helping us with the enormous job of building the infrastructure and attractions needed to welcome more than 200,000 people to a temporary city in these fields.

We are so sorry to announce this, but we are going to have to cancel Glastonbury 2020. Tickets for this year will roll over to next year. Full statement below and on our website. Michael & Emily

I never got to see it live, but I always enjoy them on MTV. It would really be cool to experience the festival once before I depart.

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damilne1 Keeping Sir Paul safe x

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