Glastonbury Festival Festival of Blues and Progressive Music at the nearby Bath and West Showground in 1970. The festival retains vestiges of this tradition such as the Green Fields area, encompassing the Green Futures and Healing Field. The first festival at Worthy Farm was the "Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival", mounted by Michael Eavis on Saturday 19 September 1970, and attended by 1,500 people. The original headline acts were The Kinks and Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders but these acts were replaced at short notice by Tyrannosaurus Rex, later known as T. Rex. Tickets were £1. Other billed acts of note
Glastonbury Festival 2017 to whom Dave Grohl dedicated the song "My Hero". Glastonbury Festival 2017 The 2017 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts took place between 21 and 25 June. General Admission Tickets for the festival cost £238 for the full weekend. The weather was around 30°C on 21 June with temperatures potentially reaching 10°C higher than usual for the festival. Headlining the festival were Radiohead, Foo Fighters and Ed Sheeran on the Friday, Saturday and Sunday respectively. Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn also made an appearance on the Pyramid Stage on the Saturday. The set by Foo Fighters was notable for the