Origins of the Glastonbury Festival explained

Colloquially knows as Glasto, it is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts held in Somerset most summers.

It is regarded as a major event in British culture.

The festival is inspired by the counterculture of the 1960s and the free-festival movement.

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