Glastonbury organisers clarify plans for sister festival Variety Bazaar
It might not happen until 2021
Last week reports emerged that Glastonbury organisers would be holding a new festival called Variety Bazaar.
The proposed date for this new festival was originally reported as 2019, but in a recent interview festival organiser Michael Eavis said "it could well be 2021."
Talking to The Guardian Michael and his daughter Emily explained that they expect to be returning to Worthy Farm (Glastonbury's usual site) in 2019 after a fallow year in 2018.
"Then 2020 is our 50th anniversary, " explained Emily, "And 2021, we may then do a show somewhere else, which we’re calling the Variety Bazaar. But none of this is set in stone."
Emily tweeted last week saying that Glastonbury Festival will always remain at Worthy Farm and while they are planning another event it will be a different festival, explaining to The Guardian,
"It’s not going to be exactly the same. It will be unique. With the same team, but crafted into a new event. Like a sister festival. We’re not going to just try to roll out Glastonbury 100 miles away."
Michael added it would be "The same weekend as we do Glastonbury, around the summer solstice."
Glastonbury Festival started on the 19th September 1970 and was known as Pilton Festival.