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Glastonbury Festival　 09外5 　　 In Britain music has a long history. People are so crazy about music that there are a lot of music festivals in Britain to share and enjoy the charming music. Among the music festivals, Glastonbury Festival is one of the most out-standing music festivals.　　　 The Origin 　 Glastonbury was heavily affected by hippie ethics and free festival movement in the early 1970s, and began with the Isle of Wight Festival that features performances by The Who, among other artists. It was right this inspired Michael Eavis to host the first festival here which then called Glastonbury Festival. The festival took place in the open-air on the green fields because of the inspiration from Led Zeppelin concert happening in an open air, and retained vestiges of this tradition such as the Green Fields area which includes the Green Futures and Healing Field.　 Simple Introduction　　 The festival takes place in South West England at Worthy Farm, a dairy farm for most of the year, which locates between the small villages of Pilton and Pylle, six miles east of the town of Glastonbury. The area has a number of legends and spiritual traditions and also is a “New Age” site of interest.　 From 1970, Glastonbury Festival is held on the last weekend of June which lasts three days every year except some exceptions which make the Festival cancelled. 　　 Every year when it comes to the hot summer, many colorful touring buses will fill the narrow road leading to the Worthy Farm covering about several kilometers length. However, people just can’t wait to get off the buses and straightly go to the farm burdened the heavy baggage but with the excitement on their faces. When you reach the farm, just look around and you will found the fields have been covered by a variety of beautiful and strange tents---camping tents, Indian type tents, yurt, also some similar to the tree houses ---which serve as their home for the coming four or five days.