The organizers of the Glastonbury Festival, canceled for the second year in a row, announced Wednesday that a big concert will be held on May 22, without an audience but broadcast live, with a host of artists including Coldplay.
Damon Albarn, Jorja Smith, Haim, Wolf Alice, Michael Kiwanuka and others also star in the 5-hour virtual show, said organizer Emily Eavis.
“
It's going to be like the festival but without the audience,
” she told the BBC.
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Dubbed
Live At Worthy Farm
, the event will be filmed at the festival's usual venue, a farm in the Somerset region of southwest England.
Despite its online migration, the formula will remain paying: it will therefore be necessary to split a digital ticket, sold 20 books - 23 euros - the unit to follow the concerts live, which will include several "
surprise guests
".
As for the outlook for 2022, Emily Eavis is however optimistic that the next edition will finally be the right one: "
We will be back next year, that's the plan, we are working on it and we are crossing our fingers to find you there
".
Held at the end of June, the Glastonbury Festival usually welcomes more than 200,000 people.
The organizers announced in January its cancellation, for the second year in a row, due to the pandemic.
Very hard hit by the pandemic, which has killed more than 126,000 there, the United Kingdom is gradually coming out of long months of restrictions after a drop in the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths, linked to containment and its massive campaign vaccination.
