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Emily Eavis confirms Glastonbury is likely to take a year off in 2026

Glastonbury’s co-organiser Emily Eavis has confirmed that the festival will most likely take its next fallow year in 2026.

Traditionally the UK’s biggest music festival takes a year off roughly every five years; it is held on working dairy farm Worthy Farm, and the breaks allow the land time to recover from the huge number of visitors that come to the event each summer.

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