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    The document provides information about the Glastonbury music festival in the UK. It discusses how the festival began on a farm in 1970 with 2000 people and has grown significantly over the years. It now hosts over 150,000 people annually and features performances across 25 stages. The festival takes place in June each year in Somerset, UK, but occasionally takes years off to allow the land to recover.

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    The document provides information about the Glastonbury music festival in the UK. It discusses how the festival began on a farm in 1970 with 2000 people and has grown significantly over the years. It now hosts over 150,000 people annually and features performances across 25 stages. The festival takes place in June each year in Somerset, UK, but occasionally takes years off to allow the land to recover.

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    Glastonbury

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    Abby Ioerger-Héraud
    The document provides information about the Glastonbury music festival in the UK. It discusses how the festival began on a farm in 1970 with 2000 people and has grown significantly over the years. It now hosts over 150,000 people annually and features performances across 25 stages. The festival takes place in June each year in Somerset, UK, but occasionally takes years off to allow the land to recover.

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    Music Festivals

    Discussion questions : 1. Do you like music ? What kind ? 2. Have you ever been to a music festival ? Where ? Did you enjoy it ? 3. Have you heard of the Glastonbury Festival ? What do you think it is ? Where do you think it is ?

    Read the text : http://www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk/ http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/glastonbury_2009.html People travel from all over the world to experience this 33-year-old event. The first festival took place on a farm in a small village called Pilton, which is near the town of Glastonbury in Somerset, UK. It was held in September of 1970 and was called Pilton Festival - approximately 2,000 people attended. The man who created the festival, Michael Eavis, was inspired by a nearby festival he had visited. The following year, a man named Andrew Kerr wanted to organize a "fair in the medieval tradition" around the summer solstice. Michael Eavis was happy to host the event. A stage shaped like a pyramid was built and 12,000 people attended. There was not another festival until 1979. There have been festivals held on most years since 1981 and all the profits are given to charities. It is now formally known as the Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts and is set in 700 acres of farmland. There are around 25 different stages, fields, and tents where music, theatre, comedy, dance and lots more is all performed. In 2006, people had to travel to Ibiza in Spain. The site at Pilton in Somerset wss having a break so that the land could recover. These breaks are called fallow years and 2012 is also a fallow year for the festival. Comprehension Questions : 1. When did the Glastonbury Festival begin ? 2. What time of year does the festival occur ? 3. Is there a festival every year ? Justify your answer. 4. True or False the festival takes place in the city. 5. True or False the next Glastonbury Festival will be in 2013.

    Find Glastonbury on the map.

    There are fifteen English words and phrases connected with the Glastonbury Festival in this word search puzzle. Can you find and translate them all? All the words go across from left to right and down from top to bottom. There are no backwards or diagonal words. GLASTONBURY SUMMER CAMPERS STAGE MUD WELLINGTONS JUNE ROCK FESTIVAL MUSIC EVENT CROWDS TENT SUN RAIN
    M H Z W E I Y B Q T X G K K Y S F M Z I B S U N W E I T J D T O

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    News about Britain 2005 UK summer music festivals What's your idea of a good time? What about dancing in a rainy field with one hundred and fifty thousand other people while a famous rock band plays on a stage so far away that the performers look like ants? It may sound strange but that is what many hundreds of thousands of young people in the UK do every summer. Why? Because summer is the time for outdoor music festivals. Held on a farm, the Glastonbury Festival is the most well-known and popular festival in the UK. It began in 1970 and was attended by one thousand five hundred people each paying an admission price of 1 the ticket included free milk from the farm. Since then the Glastonbury Festival has gone from strength to strength - in 2004 one hundred and fifty thousand fans attended, paying 112 for tickets to the three-day event. Tickets last year for the event sold out within three hours. Acts included veteran superstars, such as Paul McCartney and James Brown, as well as new talent, like Franz Ferdinand and Joss Stone. Although many summer festivals are run on a profit-making basis, Glastonbury is a charity event, donating millions of pounds to local and international charities. Glastonbury is not unique in using live music to raise money for global poverty. In July of this year, the Live 8 concerts will be held simultaneously in London, Paris, Rome and Berlin. Superstars, such as Madonna, Sir Elton John and Stevie Wonder will perform in order to highlight international poverty and debt. Vocabulary stage the raised floor on which artists play outdoor happening outside from strength to strength with continuing and growing success sold out if something is sold out, all of it is gone (bought) new talent here: successful artists who only just started their careers charity generosity towards people who are poor or in difficulties simultaneously at the same time perform to act or play debt something owed to someone else acts here : artists profit-making bringing money global poverty lack of money in various parts of the world

    fans very keen supporters or followers of a famous person, group or team three-day event a thing (here: a series of concerts) that takes place over three days admission price the amount of money you pay to enter a place, for example a concert hall veteran a person who has had long experience in some form of activity live music music performed by the artists (not played from the tape, CD, etc.)

    The Boston Globe's wonderful Big Picture site has a photo gallery on last weekend's Glastonbury Festival. There are some amazing images. As usual, it rained.

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