Glastonbury Festival 2020 – its 50th anniversary event – has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.
02.03.2020 - 18:21 / nme.com
Somerset County Council are planning to withdraw the proposal due to a lack of support from locals
Plans to improve the roads near to the site of Glastonbury Festival look set to be scrapped after the proposal failed to gain substantial local and political support.
Somerset County Council were behind the proposal that was submitted to the government in July 2019, with the plans aiming to implement major road improvements to the A39 and A361 through Glastonbury and Pilton.
The route is one of the
Glastonbury Festival 2020 – its 50th anniversary event – has been cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Organizers at the U.K.’s Glastonbury Festival have confirmed the 2020 event will no longer go ahead due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Organizers at the U.K.’s Glastonbury festival have confirmed the 2020 event will no longer go ahead due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The U.K.’s Glastonbury Music Festival has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns.
UK festival Glastonbury has been cancelled amid the coronavirus outbreak.Taylor Swift, Paul McCartney and Kendrick Lamar were due to appear, alongside Diana Ross and Dua Lipa for the 2020 event in June. But, now hopes the popular Pyramid Stage will return for another installation have been dashed, which was due to take place in its usual setting of Worthy Farm in Somerset.
The U.K.’s Glastonbury music festival has been canceled in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.
Britain’s Glastonbury festival has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Ticket-holders will be guaranteed a place for next year's event.
Glastonbury Festival 2020 has been cancelled due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
Despite festivals like SXSW and Coachella being canceled or postponed in the wake of concerns surrounding COVID-19, the 2020 Glastonbury Festival recently announced Kendrick Lamar as one of its headliner. The rapper joins Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift, Diana Ross, Burna Boy, FKA twigs, Thom Yorke and more on the festival's 50th-anniversary lineup.
The 2020 Glastonbury Festival is still moving ahead, despite tons of postponements and cancellations of tours and outdoor events amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
As the U.S. music industry reeled in the wake of the postponement of basically every major current tour for at least the next few weeks amid coronavirus concerns, the U.K.’s largest festival, Glastonbury, unveiled more than 90 additional acts for its scheduled 50 th anniversary event — including Kendrick Lamar, Dua Lipa, Pet Shop Boys and more — joining the already announced headliners Taylor Swift and Paul McCartney.