LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts) The 2014 Glastonbury Festival got under way at Worthy Farm in Pilton, UK, earlier this week and continues through the weekend, featuring performances from a number of artists!
Thousands of festival-goers have descended on a damp and muddy Glastonbury for this weekend's festival, with
Arcade Fire and
Blondie set to headline the Pyramid Stage.
The UK's own
Robert Plant and his Sensational Space Shifters band take the festival's main Pyramid Stage on Saturday at 5:30 PM. This set, which the BBC will be streaming live for UK fans at bbc.co.uk, is part of Plant's European summer tour, which continues in France, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, and the Czech Republic in the weeks ahead. He and his band will tour the UK in November (general on-sale begins today) and the US this fall in support of the forthcoming albumlullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar, due
September 9 on Warner Bros. Records. Pre-orders are available now at robertplant.com and include a limited-edition print and an instant download of an album track.
Sunday night, The
Black Keys perform the penultimate set of the whole festival on the Pyramid Stage at 7:45 PM. The Keys, who kicked off a world tour in support of their highly acclaimed new album,Turn Blue, last week, headline two more European festivals this weekend: the sold-out Open Air St. Gallen on the Sitterbühne stage in St. Gallen, Switzerland, tonight, and the Down the Rabbit Hold Festival, on De Groene Heuvels park's Hotot stage in Beuningen, the Netherlands, on Saturday. The European summer festival dates continue through the end of July, and an extensive tour of North
America begins this fall with special guests Cage The Elephant, Jake Bugg, and St. Vincent.
Earlier Sunday afternoon, Malian kora master Toumani Diabaté and his eldest son, Sidiki, perform duets on the main stage at 1:30 PM. The set features songs from their new father-and-son duo album,Toumani & Sidiki. The record was recently named one of the Best Albums of 2014 So Far by Los Angeles Times music critic Randall Roberts. "It's a beguiling sound, and when two geniuses bridge generations, you can hear echoes of a continuum stretching back centuries," says Roberts. Toumani and Sidiki Diabaté tour the United States this fall.
