Glastonbury won’t go bankrupt after 2021 cancellation

Organiser Emily Eavis says that cancelling the festival now would limit losses and that Glastonbury will return in 2022

News By IQ | 25 January 2021

Glastonbury Festival's Pyramid Stage
Organiser, Emily Eavis, says that the 2022 event will be an "enormous high" © Wikimedia Common/Guy Hurst

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