The good people at Glastonbury's Orchestra in a Field event has announced free entry for kids under the age of 13, and weekend tickets for £40 for teenagers. Adults can expect to shell out £55 for weekend tickets, with free camping at Worthy Farm - home of the hallowed (but not very close to Glastonbury) Glastonbury Festival.
No worries, though. They've also put on a shuttle-bus.
Orchestra in
a Field is being held in the grounds of Glastonbury Abbey and will boasts a huge Kids Area with helter skelter, vintage market, local food, a Talk Tent and a programme featuring everything
from Carmen to Mussorgsky to Tubular Bells and The Hip Hop Shakespeare Company.
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| Beeeyootiful Glastonbury Abbey |
“Kids can run about and be themselves
– they don’t have to behave in a certain way,” says organiser Charles Hazlewood. “But
we don’t want them sitting passively either – we want them to get involved and
have a go!”
This year’s
main concerts will be Mussorgsky’s magical ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ on June
30th, and Bizet’s ‘Carmen’ on July 1st. A distinctive feature of the Mussorgsky piece
will be the improvised replies to the orchestra supplied by Charles Hazlewood’s
All Star Collective, a musical ‘supergroup’ featuring Will Gregory from
Goldfrapp, and Adrian Utley from Portishead.
Aside from this, each day of the festival will feature
a range of one-off musical experiences, including a performance of
Mike Oldfield’s seminal 70s classic Tubular Bells on June 30, Adrian
Utley’s “gargantuan” Guitar Orchestra on July 1, and a
performance of Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture by the Scrapheap Orchestra.
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