Beyonce to Headline Glastonbury Festival

GLOBAL SUPERSTAR BRINGS HER ELECTRIFYING STAGE SHOW TO WORLD'S BIGGEST FESTIVAL THIS SUMMER IN SOUTH WEST ENGLAND

TAKES PYRAMID STAGE ON CLOSING NIGHT

SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 2011


NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Beyonce is set to be a headliner at England's Glastonbury Festival this summer. The five-day festival, billed as the largest green-field music and performing arts festival in the world, will play to an expected audience of 200,000, on Worthy Farm, Pilton in South West England at the end of June. The global superstar will be the headliner on the last day of the festival on Sunday, June 26, for an electrifying 90-minute set on the Pyramid Stage.

Music fans around the world last saw Beyonce live on stage during her yearlong I AM...WORLD TOUR, which ended in February 2010. The tour played 108 shows in 78 cities in 32 countries on six continents to 1.1 millions fans in Europe, Asia, South America and the US.

Beyonce, who is currently in the studio working on new music, attended Glastonbury Festival in 2008 as a fan and is excited to return as a headliner. "This really is the biggest festival in the world and I cannot wait to perform there. Everyone who attends is really appreciative of music and is in such a good mood that entire weekend," she said. "I'm pumped just thinking about that huge audience and soaking up their energy."

The recently-released, I AM...WORLD TOUR full-length concert DVD, with its never-before-seen, intimate footage of the star around the world, quickly became the best selling concert DVD of 2010 in the US.

Beyonce has been nominated for two GRAMMY ® awards, including Best Pop Female Vocal Performance ("Halo" (Live)) and Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals ("Telephone" with Lady Gaga.)

The 53rd Annual Grammy ® Awards, airs live on February 13th on CBS, 8pm ET/PT.


SOURCE Columbia Records

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First woman to do it.

First pop act to do it.

Who is IRATE?

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Sounds shit.

Dewrede said:

I agree with Jimi

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Beyonshit please be gone!

she's the only female artists to perform there?

Dewrede said:

I've never seen that emoticon before. Hillarious.

Dewrede said:

Glastonbury?

Will Noel Gallagher join her on stage or something?

HAPPYPERSON said:

she's the only female artists to perform there?

Apart from the thousands of others.....yeah.

this sounds like a mud-throwing massacre waiting to happen.

HAPPYPERSON said:

she's the only female artists to perform there?

No, but she is the first female headliner.

Gunsnhalen said:

Dewrede said:

I agree with Jimi

cool

Cinnamon234 said:

Dewrede said:

I've never seen that emoticon before. Hillarious.

i agree

TotalAlisa said:

Dewrede said:

I wish Bey luck and much success. She has the voice, talent and charisma to make it happen.

RnBAmbassador said:

Queen of ????

Glastonbury's credibility instantly lost and uhhh, irreplaceable.

PurpleRain2010 said:

HAPPYPERSON said:

she's the only female artists to perform there?

No, but she is the first female headliner.

Kylie was slated to be the headliner in 2005, but than she got cancer and Coldplay took her slot