Moving Heaven and Earth for Live Music.

5^th March 2021 In January Emily Eavis made an announcement on Twitter, “It is with great regret, we must announce that this year’s Glastonbury Festival will not take place, and that this will be another fallow year for us.”

Emily Eavis has had a tough year. As organiser of The Glastonbury Festival she has now had to announce the event will not go ahead for the second year running due to Covid-19 lockdown restrictions.

Emily is well known in the world of live music as she has the final decision on which bands get booked for the festival. She knows how important it is to book musicians that will appeal to a wide audience, as well as the majority of festivalgoers aged between 18-30. She also feels responsible for carrying on the event year after year, not only because it is landmark on calendar for the live music industry and fans, but because it is also a family tradition. Emily is the daughter of Michael Eavis who founded the Glastonbury Festival in 1970. She began helping her father in 1999 and has now taken over organising the event, assisted by her husband Nick Dewey who used to manage The Chemical Brothers, but is now Head of Music Programming for the festival. She also has three children.

(Eavis in-front of the Glastonbury pyramid stage, that's under construction.)

She is passionate about her work supporting good causes and activism and has said, "The heart of it really for me is probably the charity side” and that charity is the “spirit of Glastonbury”. She has helped to organise fund raising concerts for Oxfam, Make Trade Fair, as well as an event opposing the Iraq War in 2003. In support of Greenpeace’s ecology and sustainability campaign, in 2019 the festival banned the sale of single-use plastic bottles and instead encouraged people to refill their reusable bottles free of charge at water-stations.

In January 2020 the New Musical Express (NME) gave her an award for her "outstanding contribution" to the festival. Her father won the same award 24 years ago. But the excitement of winning the prize was soon gone after she had to cancel the 2020 Glastonbury Festival due to the Covid-19 restrictions just 11 days before it was due to start. This was a blow as 2020 was the festival’s 50^th birthday.

(Eavis receiving NME award in 2020.)

She was planning 2021 to be extra special and Paul McCartney, Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift were to headline the Pyramid Stage, but on 21^st January she decided the future of live music was still too uncertain and it was better to put Glastonbury on hold for another year. But it she is determined that the festival will be back and bigger than ever in 2022.