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
Trowbridge Village Pump Festival allow the festival to be held in 2012. The Weekender was held at the Village pump after hearing of the demise of the Village pump Ltd. Many of the original members of the festival decided to resurrect the festival under the new name Village Pump Folk Festival, with the Blessing of Mr Pat Drinkwater, the founder of the name. The 2012 Village Pump Folk Festival took take place at White Horse Country Park, Westbury on 20–22 July 2012 with Show of Hands as festival Patrons. It was also covered by FromeFM. Following disappointing ticket sales in 2015 and 2016, the