Glastonbury Festival 2014 Glastonbury Festival 2014 The 2014 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts was held between 25 and 29 June 2014. Initially a small selection of tickets were sold for people who wished to travel by coach. A few days later the standard tickets were released where ticket sales sold out in record time of one hour and 27 minutes. On 19 December 2013, it was announced that Arcade Fire would headline the Pyramid Stage on Friday 27 June 2014. Kasabian will headline on Sunday 29 June. In early March 2014, Glastonbury announced that Dolly Parton would perform at the festival via
Glastonbury Festival (1914–25) Glastonbury Festival (1914–25) The first Glastonbury Festivals were a series of cultural events held in summer, from 1914 to 1925 in Glastonbury, Somerset, England. The festivals were founded by English socialist composer Rutland Boughton and his librettist Reginald Buckley. Apart from the founding of a national theatre, they envisaged a summer school and music festival based on utopian principles. With strong Arthurian connections and historic and prehistoric associations, Glastonbury was chosen to host the festivals. Among the supporters were Sir Edward Elgar and George Bernard Shaw, while financial support was received from the Clark family, shoemakers in nearby Street. The