Glastonbury Festival cancelled
Glastonbury Festival 2020 is cancelled.
Organisers Michael and Emily Eavis released a statement on Twitter this morning.
It begins: 'We are so sorry to announce this, but Glastonbury 2020 will have to be cancelled and this will be an enforced fallow year for the Festival.
We are so sorry to announce this, but we are going to have to cancel Glastonbury 2020. Tickets for this year will roll over to next year. Full statement below and on our website. Michael & Emily pic.twitter.com/ox8kcQ0HoB
— Glastonbury Festival (@glastonbury) March 18, 2020
The Eavis' went on to say that, 'clearly this was not a course of action' they hoped to take for the festival's 50th birthday.
They hope the situation will have improved by the end of June.
However, they couldn't continue to safely put the festival together with, 'thousands of crew here on the farm, helping us with the enormous job of building the infrastructure.'
Tickets
Emily and Michael offered a sincere apology to the 135,000 ticket holders.
Those tickets will remain valid for next year's festival.
While balance payments were due during the first week of April this is now no longer the case.
Deposits placed in October will secure tickets for 2021.
Those choosing to go to next year's event will place their deposit next April.
However, those who cannot go next year can get a refund of their £50 deposit.
This will be organised with See Tickets in the coming days with the option remaining available until September this year.
All ticket holders will be contacted via email from Glastonbury festival shortly.
