Glastonbury Extravaganza
Year Date Headline Artist
2001 Saturday 18 August 2001
2003 Saturday 2 August 2003 Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra
2004 Friday 30 July 2004 Van Morrison
Saturday 31 July 2004 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sunday 1 August 2004 Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra
2005 Friday 5 August 2005 Joss Stone
Saturday 6 August 2005 Nigel Kennedy , and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sunday 7 August 2005 The Rat Pack 'Live from Las Vegas '
2006 Friday 4 August 2006 Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra
Saturday 5 August 2006 The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sunday 6 August 2006 The Rat Pack 'Live from Las Vegas '
2007 Friday 10 August 2007 Van Morrison
Saturday 11 August 2007 Charles Hazlewood conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Sunday 12 August 2007 Ray Davies of The Kinks
Performers
The Glastonbury Extravaganza (also known as the Glastonbury Abbey Extravaganza and the Glastonbury Classical Extravaganza) is one of three events organised by Michael Eavis and the Glastonbury Festival each year. The other events are the major Glastonbury Festival and the local Pilton Party. It has been held in the grounds of the ruined medieval Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset since 1996. The Extravaganza is held every year as a thank you to local people from Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis
The event started life as a Classical concert - expanding out to three days and moving more into a mixture of classic, pop and rock. Since 2013 it has returned to the single Saturday night format but retained a popular music theme. The current format of the event is that the grounds open at 16:30, a local choir opens the proceedings at around 17:00 followed by a number of acts leading up to the headliner, followed by a firework display to close the evening at around 22:00. People bring their own food and drink and picnic or even fetch take-away food from Glastonbury high street, a short walk away.