Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts announced the lineup for its 2016 edition will be held from 22 to 26 June. The four days will be headed by New Order, Pj Harvey, Beck, Muse, Adele, Coldplay, LCD Soundsystem, and The Last Shadow Puppets. Glastonbury is one of the most important and prestigious festivals worldwide known for its contemporary music and also for dance, comedy, theater, circus, cabaret and other arts.
Moreover, the poster will bring together more than 60 artists who will be spread over too sorts of musical genres such as Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Electronic, Country. Among them you can name great acts as Ellie Goulding, The 1975, Foals, Chvrches, James Blake, Bring Me The Horizon, Grimes, Fatboy Slim, Grimes, Jake Bugg, Guy Garvey, Madness, Wolf Alice and Bat For Lashes and much more are some of the bands that play at the major event, one of the most comprehensive festivals held in a long time.
Days ago, its organizers had confirmed three of its headliners: Adele, who will close Saturday night; Muse at the end of the day Friday and Coldplay for the closing on Sunday.
Coldplay, it is the band that has had greater participation in the event four times in its history, after appearing in 2002, 2005 and 2011. The British band will be accompanied by the former member of the Bee Gees, Barry Gibb.
Despite having been modified, the festival has been held since 1970, being strongly influenced by the hippie ethic and movement of free festivals, taking pioneering the Isle of Wight Festival, which featured performances by The Who, among others artists. The first festival organizer was Michael Eavis, a farmer in a Somerset valley, which decided to organize the first festival, then called Festival of Pilton, after seeing an outdoor concert of Led Zeppelin in the Festival of blues and progressive music Bath 1970.
