Glastonbury Festival 2020 is cancelled

Glastonbury ticketholders will have a “guaranteed” opportunity to buy tickets for the 2021 event, as this year’s festival is called off due to “unprecedented uncertainty”

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Glastonbury Festival 2020 is no longer taking place © jaswooduk/Flickr

The organisers of Glastonbury Festival have cancelled the event’s 50th anniversary edition this summer. The festival is regarded to be the first and largest domino, which may well trigger further festival cancellations across Europe.

This year’s festival was set to feature performances by Taylor Swift, Kendrick Lamar, Paul McCartney and Diana Ross, among others.

“We are so sorry to announce this, but Glastonbury 2020 will have to be cancelled, and this will be an enforced fallow year for…

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