What is Variety Bazaar? There’s a new festival from the organisers of Glastonbury, but will it replace Glasto? – all you need to know
Father and daughter team Michael and Emily Eavis have lifted the lid on their latest live music project - which will run in the same year as his iconic Glastonbury
THE iconic Glastonbury Festival now has a spin-off little sister music extravaganza dubbed Variety Bazaar.
The fresh outdoor music extravaganza comes courtesy of the same organisers, Michael Eavis and his youngest daughter Emily.
Yet just what do we know about the fresh new concert hitting the gig scene?
What is Variety Bazaar?
Variety Bazaar is a new festival by Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis and his daughter Emily.
The name was inspired by a shop the family loved in Shepton Mallet in Somerset, where the main Glastonbury festival takes place.
Michael has officially registered the new event name and he is looking to host the live gig at a separate unnamed location, which is 100 miles away in a "beautiful valley."
The festival creator revealed his new project on Glastonbury FM and confessed: "I've been a risk taker all my life. I mean 47 years of taking risks really and so far touch wood, I haven't come unstuck so far.
"This might be one risk too far, I don't know."
When will Variety Bazaar happen?
Michael's daughter Emily said to the that Variety Bazaar could take place in 2021, with the main Glastonbury returning in 2019 after a year off in 2018.
She explained: "2020 is our 50th anniversary, and 2021 we may then do a show somewhere else, which we’re calling the Variety Bazaar. But none of this is set in stone."
Michael added that it would take place "the same weekend as we do Glastonbury, around the summer solstice."
The pair said that they wouldn't run both festivals in the same year, and expect to hold Variety Bazaar every fifth year, during the typical fallow year for Glastonbury.
So is this the new Glastonbury?
Absolutely not.
Michael’s daughter, Emily, previously confirmed it would not be a replacement and took to Twitter to write: “We’re still planning an event in the future at a different location – which we are calling Variety Bazaar.
"Glastonbury Festival will always be called Glastonbury and will remain at Worthy Farm! (sic)”
Speaking to Music Week, Emily revelaed the new festival will be "smaller" and although planned by the same people, it "won't be your average Glastonbury".
She further explained to the Guardian that it will be a stand alone event.
She said: "It’s not going to be exactly the same. It will be unique. With the same team, but crafted into a new event. Like a sister festival. We’re not going to just try to roll out Glastonbury 100 miles away."
Who is playing Glastonbury 2017?
At the beginning of 2017 The Sun exclusively revealed that Ed Sheeran is headlining the festival this year alongside the Foo Fighters.
Others stars who will be taking to the stage include: The National, Katy Perry, Craig David, Biffy Clyro, Lorde, George Ezra, Stormzy, Wiley, Emeli Sande, Rag and Bone Man and Clean Bandit among others.
Noel Gallagher will also introduce a screening of Oasis documentary, Supersonic.
What about Glastonbury 2018?
Here's where things change - organisers have cancelled next year's music-fest at Worthy Farm to give the well-trodden land a break.
A statement posted on the festival website read: "We will be taking our next fallow year in 2018, in order to give the farm, the village and the festival team the traditional year off."
Yet don't fear festival fans, as Michael hinted he would still have "something special" in store.
Emily Eavis reassured fans of Glastonbury's future, she said:
“We want to keep it going. It’s in a really good place, there’s an amazing team behind it and the atmosphere this year is so brilliant. There’s no reason why we would want it to stop, everybody wants to keep it going. While the public want to come and there’s so much positivity about it, then there’s no reason not to. We’ll keep it going for as long as we can, for sure.”
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Is there a future for Glastonbury at its age-old home?
Organiser Micheal has suggested it could shift "towards the Midlands" to help protect the green land.
The exact location, which has not been disclosed, could be up to 100 miles away.
Yet it is all for the good of the site and would only be used every five years to help the farm land replenish.
However daughter Emily said that there’s no current plan to move Glastonbury festival away from Worthy Farm.
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