Field of Avalon line-up revealed for Glastonbury Festival

Newton Faulkner, Show of Hands, Turin Brakes, Will Young, Corinne Bailey Rae, and more

By Scott Williams | Published: Wed 4th May 2016

around the festival site (Avalon Field)

Wednesday 22nd to Sunday 26th June 2016
Worthy Farm, Pilton, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4 4AZ, England MAP
£228 - SOLD OUT
Daily capacity: 203,000
Last updated: Mon 20th Jun 2016

More acts have been announced for Glastonbury Festival this time for the Festival's Field of Avalon.

Confirmed for Avalon’s main stage big top are Beans on Toast, Ben Miller Band, Blackberry Smoke, Corinne Bailey Rae, Edward II, Foy Vance, Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs, Holy Moly & the Crackers, Joanne Shaw Taylor, King Eider, KT Tunstall, Larkin Poe, Mitch Benn, Newton Faulkner, Police Dog Hogan, Rob Heron and the Tea Pad Orchestra, Seafret, Show of Hands, The Destroyers, The Drystones, The Elephant Sessions, The Feeling, This Is The Kit, Treacherous Orchestra, Turin Brakes, and Will Young.

The 24 hour vegetarian café will be home to 3 Daft Monkeys, Akasha, Andrew Maxwell Morris, Back Before Breakfast, Ben Russell and The Charmers, Captain Cactus & The Screaming Harlots, Dana Immanuel, The Drystones, Fat 45, Flipron, Gecko, Hobo Jones & The Junkyard Dogs, Hodmadoddery, Holy Moly & the Crackers, India Electric Co., JS & The Lockerbillies, Keston Cobblers Club, King Eider, Lekan Babalola, LEKIDDO - Lord of The Lobsters!, Little Hours, The New Forbidden, Malojian, Martin Creed, Matuki, Mik Artistik's Ego Trip, Orla Gartland, RSVP, The Sea Kings, Show of Hands, Sound of the Sirens, Stella Martyr, Tell Tale Tusk, The Buffalo Skinners, The Curious Little Big Band, The Listening Device, The Schmoozenbergs, The Waffle Machine Orchestra, Thirsty Jenny, Athene Roberts & Tim Ashton, The Vodka Jellies Karaoke Band, and World Government.

The field is also home to the Avalon Inn, selling real ale and a large selection of wines, cider and cocktails, caterers, fairground attractions, and a plethora of stalls selling books, vintage clothes, and circus paraphernalia.


Tickets for Glastonbury Festival have sold out. This year's full line-up is yet to be announced.

The Friday headliners are Muse, Adele tops the bill on Saturday and Coldplay on Sunday, plus PJ Harvey, Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra, Art Garfunkel, Cyndi Lauper, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Last Shadow Puppets, Sigur Ros, Ronnie Spector, Ellie Goulding, Explosions In The Sky, Foals, Beck, LCD Soundsystem, ZZ Top, Disclosure, New Order, Skepta, The 1975, Grimes, Annie Mac, Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music, Underworld, James Blake, Chvrches, Savages, Floating Points, Laura Mvula, Stormzy, Daughter, Little Simz, Vince Staples, John Grant, Band of Horses, Jess Glynne, Carl Cox, Nao, Fatboy Slim, Bring Me The Horizon, Richard Hawley, The Lumineers, Lady Leshurr, Rokia Traore, Guy Garvey, Kamasi Washington, Jack Garratt, AlunaGeorge, Hinds, Ezra Furman, M83, Kurt Vile (solo), Mercury Rev, Gregory Porter, Madness, Wolf Alice, Baaba Maal, Ernest Ranglin, Bastille, Roisin Murphy, Santigold, Years And Years, Dua Lipa, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Bat For Lashes, Protoje, Two Door Cinema Club, Jake Bugg, Mac DeMarco, St Etienne, Blossoms, Of Monsters and Men, and Lapsley.. Plus the entrants for the Emerging Talent competition Bossy Love, Early Ghost, Gillbanks, Hattie Whitehead, Henry Green, Lady Sanity, Marcus McCoan, and She Drew The Gun.

The line-up for areas of Glastonbury Festival announced so far are:
Silver Hayes Dance Area
The Common Area
Leftfield
Kidz Field

Expect something like 2,000 performances at over 100 venues including music, cabaret, theatre, circus, a fantastic Kidz area, poetry, green crafts and information, site art, decor, and loads, loads more ... much more than just the music, so make sure you check it all out!

As usual eFestivals will bring you the very best-sourced rumours - keep your eyes on the Glastonbury 2016 line-up & rumours, updated as we receive information.

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