Artists including rapper Mos Def, Specials legend Jerry Dammers and Devendra Banhart are to head up a new stage at this year’s Glastonbury Festival, it’s organiser Michael Eavis announced today.
Called the ‘West Holts‘ stage it will be held instead of the Jazz World stage, which has been replaced to highlight the history of the site at Worthy Farm. “We’re going back to the real roots of Worthy Farm and its history with the name change for the stage,” Eavis told GlastonburyFestivals.co.uk. “West Holts was a ‘halt’ originally; one of the two places where we had to open the level crossing gates across the old railway line to get the cattle through for milking. It was a fair walk up to the farm, just as it is now, and those cows took some driving!”
Rock heavyweights U2 and Muse are set to headline this year’s Pyramid Stage, along with Motown legend Stevie Wonder.
West Holts stage line-up:
June 25th
Mos Def
Femi Kuti
TBC
Breakestra with Charli 2na
Mariachi El Bronx
Tune-Yards
Matthew Herbert Big Band
June 26th
George Clinton with Parliament/Funkadelic
Jerry Dammers Spacial AKA Orchestra
Os Mutantes
Devendra Banhart
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba
Phenomenal Handclap Band
Brother Ali
Troy Ellis & the Longshots
June 27th
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Toots & the Maytals
Quantic & His Combo Barbaro
Staff Benda Bilili
Dr John
Tunng
The Bees
Dizraeli