Glastonbury ‘cancelled’ for 2026

Glastonbury Festival has been cancelled for 2026.

Event organisers at Worthy Farm in Somerset confirmed on Sunday (30.06.24) that it will not take place next summer as it will be one of its traditional ‘fallow’ years to allow the land to recover from the thousands of fans who descend on it for the musical extravaganza.

Festival organiser Emily Eavis, 44, whose father Michael, 88, is a farmer and started the festival in 1970, told The Sun: “It will give the land a rest. The festival before a fallow year is always fun to organise because you’re almost trying to fit two years into one.”

“We are already in talks with some artists for this project. It’s exciting!”

Glastonbury’s fallow years typically occur every five summers, with the last one in 2018 before returning the following year.

Sunday (30.06.24) saw the final day of this year’s event – with Shania Twain, 58, performing in her coveted Legends Slot before a closing act from SZA, 34 – born Solána Imani Rowe – on the Pyramid Stage.

Emily added of this year’s event: “I would really like to thank everyone who made this year so special.

“This will undoubtedly be the best event in history. Each and every member of our vast and incredible team is essential to the success of this event.

“And, of course, it simply wouldn’t exist without the participation of the festival-goers, who are kind, brilliant and respectful.

“I think the people here show a better way of life and they bring some of that back to the outside world.

“It truly restores your faith in humanity.”

At Coldplay’s concert on Saturday night (29/06/24), they invited wheelchair-bound Michael J Fox, 63, who has Parkinson’s disease, to tell him, while holding a guitar, that he was the reason they became a band – in an apparent reference to his guitar playing in ‘Back to the Future’.

Dua Lipa performed on the Pyramid Stage the night before and revealed to a crowd of 100,000: “I wrote this moment, I wished for it, I dreamed for it and I worked really hard for it.”