Object number
2009/42
Title
Glastonbury Festival 1989,
Collection
Exhibition
Description
This is an official programme for the 1989 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts. The festival ran from June 16-18 1989, in very good weather, and was attended by c.65,000 people. £100,000 was raised for CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) that year, and acts included Van Morrison and Elvis Costello. The programme consists of 52 pages, mostly in black and white, with a colour soft cover. It has a cover price of £2.
Physical description
52 page programme with colour covers front and back but otherwise primarily black and white content.
Label Text
Glastonbury programme. This is an official programme for the 1989 Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts. The festival ran from June 16-18 1989, in very good weather, and was attended by c.65,000 people. £100,000 was raised for CND (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament) that year, and acts included Van Morrison and Elvis Costello. Regarded as a major event in British culture, the festival is inspired by the ethos of the hippie, counterculture, and free festival movements. Michael Eavis hosted the first festival, then called Pilton Festival, after seeing an open-air Led Zeppelin concert at the 1970 Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music. The festival's record crowd is 300,000 people, set at the 1994 festival, when headliners the Levellers performed a set on The Pyramid Stage. Recent stars have included Beyonce, Dolly Parton and Adele.
Archival history
MERL OLIB database note – 'Official programme, cover price £2. The Festival ran from June 16-18 and enjoyed very good weather. c.65,000 people attended and £100,000 was raised for CND. Acts included Van Morrison and Elvis Costello. In addition to site information and schedules, the programme includes illustrated articles on the Theatre festival, the Circus, the Greenfield and the Children's area.', MERL 'Handwritten accession' form (Museum of English Rural Life) – '52 page official programme. Cover price £2. // Colour covers front + back but otherwise primarily black + white content. // ... Purchased as part of the Collecting Twentieth Century Rural Culture project. // References // 'Glastonbury: A very English Fair' by George McKay, 2000'
Production date
1989 - 1989
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