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Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis says he’s optimistic that the iconic festival will be able to return in 2022
Lauren Heath-Jones | Planet Attractions | 24 Aug 2021
Michael Eavis founded the world-famous festival in 1970
The founder of Glastonbury Festival has revealed that he is optimistic about the festival’s future, despite having been forced to cancel both its 2020 and 2021 events due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Speaking to the official Glastonbury website, Michael Eavis – who runs the world-famous festival, which has been held at Worthy Farm in Somerset, UK, since 1970, with his daughter; Emily Eavis – said that he felt positive about the festival’s return in 2022.
After axeing the 2021 event earlier this year, organisers were granted permission to hold a limited-capacity mini-festival, called Equinox, in September 2021. The event was later scrapped, with co-organiser Emily Eavis announcing its cancellation on Instagram.
Since then, the site, which has previously hosted iconic artists such as David Bowie and Dolly Parton, has been transformed into Worthy Pastures, a family-friendly campsite offering food stalls, bars and a local shop with local produce. The success of Worthy Pastures seems to have inspired Michael Eavis’ optimism for the future.
“The campsite has been so encouraging for me personally, to see how much people enjoy coming here. After 51 years, the enthusiasm from people to actually want to come is still there, which is very reassuring to me. You’d think by now people would be beginning to get fed up with the idea but they’re definitely not,” he said.
“Psychologically we’re feeling so good and so high at the moment [...] in spite of there being no festival, it’s been a wonderful year.”
Glastonbury’s 2020 and 2021 events were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic CREDIT: AP
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