Glastonbury Festival, Task 1 Research

The first example of a show I researched into, was Glastonbury. The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, is the largest music and arts festival in the world. The festival presents arts of different forms to audiences of more than a hundred thousand. The art-forms it puts on show features dance, comedy, theatre, circus and of course a wide variety of music. However, Glastonbury hasn't always been the major event it's established itself as today. The first Glastonbury show, which was in the September of 1970 (the day after Jimmy Hendrix died), put on 5 acts to an audience of 1,500 and at the cost of just 1 pound. In the year of 2007, over 700 acts played on more than 80 stages. The cost of the tickets have also rocketed up to more than 100 pounds; a hundred times more than the price 40 years ago. Another interesting note is that when tickets went on sale last October, they sold out within just 12 hours.

This picture shows Glastonbury this year, on its 40th anniversary.