Blues Music Festivals

The first modern 'rock' festival in Britain.

Raised funds for anti-war political candidates in the early 1970s. The 25th anniversary of the US first use of an atomic weapon in the bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. ...

The first festival in Europe where jazz and pop music were brought together. Therefore sometimes called the "mother of all European festivals". 

The first Glastonbury festival at Worthy Farm was held on the day after Jimi Hendrix died. It was the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music 1970 that had...