Glastonbury Announces Worthy Farm Livestream Concert

Following the news that Glastonbury is cancelled for the second year running this year, festival organisers have announced an exclusive livestream concert from Worthy Farm on Saturday May 22.

The five-hour spectacular will feature performances from a host of artists who are giving their time to support the festival, including Coldplay, Damon Albarn, HAIM, IDLES, Jorja Smith, Kano, Michael Kiwanuka, Wolf Alice, plus DJ Honey Dijon. There will also be a number of unannounced surprise performances.

Tickets are on sale now from worthyfarm.live priced at £20, €23, $27.50 and AUD$35, with a number of timed streams available to accommodate audiences globally.

The event will be interspersed by a spoken word narrative, written and delivered by some very special guests, guiding Festival-goers on a journey through the sacred valley in Somerset.

Accessible only to ticket buyers, the online event will be broadcast in full across four separate time zones, with staggered livestreams for the UK, Europe, Africa and the Middle East, East Coast North America and Central / South America, West Coast North America, and Australia, New Zealand and Asia.

Livestream #1: UK, EUROPE, AFRICA & MIDDLE EAST: 19.00 BST / 20.00 CEST & SAST / 21.00 MSK & EEST / 22.00 GST.

Livestream #2: NORTH AMERICA (EAST COAST) & CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA: 18.00 CDT / 19.00 EDT / 20.00 ART & BRT.

Livestream #3: NORTH AMERICA (WEST COAST): 19.00 PDT.

Livestream #4: AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & ASIA (on Sunday 23rd May): 16.00 ICT / 17.00 HKT & PHST / 18.00 JST & KST/ 19.00 AEST / 21.00 NZST.

A limited edition line-up poster for the event is also available, with proceeds going to Stagehand, the live production welfare and benevolent fund which is helping crew who have fallen into the gaps in Government financial support during the pandemic.

“After two Glastonbury cancellations, it brings us great pleasure to announce our first online livestream, which will present live music performances filmed across Worthy Farm at landmarks including the Pyramid and, for the first time ever, the Stone Circle,” said Emily Eavis.

“It will feature a rolling cast of artists and performers who have all given us enormous support by agreeing to take part in this event, showing the farm as you have never seen it. There will also be some very special guest appearances and collaborations. We are hoping this will bring a bit of Glastonbury to your homes and that for one night only people all over the world will be able to join us on this journey through the farm together!”

Shot by acclaimed Grammy-nominated director Paul Dugdale, the ambitious production will take viewers on a journey of the world famous Glastonbury site, which typically greets more than 200,000 people each June.

The show will be co-promoted and produced by UK livestream business Driift, who have hosted globally successful livestreams for artists including Laura Marling, Nick Cave, Biffy Clyro, Niall Horan and Kylie Minogue, and BBC Studios Productions.