Glastonbury Festival 2009

The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury, is a British performing arts festival, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts. For 2005, the enclosed area of the festival was over 900 acres (3.6 km²), had over 385 live performances, and was attended by around 150,000 people. In 2007, over 700 acts played on over 80 stages and the capacity expanded by 20,000 to 177,000. In 2011 UK Music published a report stating that Glastonbury Festival contributes over £100 million annually to the UK economy.