The decision to repeat a horse race from the original celebration the following year led to the establishment of the annual festival at which beer halls and carnival stalls soon began to dominate.
Organised by dairy farmer Michael Eavis, the event was billed as the Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival and attracted 1,500 people who paid a pound each to see a number of bands on a single stage and drink unlimited quantities of milk.
On the 19th September 1970 the first Glastonbury Festival took place at Worthy Farm in Somerset.
HistoryPod is proud to be able to celebrate #WorldFringeDay, and the foundation of the Fringe movement, in this special live recording from the Buxton Festival Fringe in the wonderful English spa town of Buxton in Derbyshire.
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