Acoustic Stage

The Acoustic Stage is a festival within a festival. For the last thirty years or so, people have been trooping up the hill to the haven of the Acoustic field. The crowds visit the Acoustic Stage to either avoid the rain and, maybe even, the sun – in the sanctuary of a super-duper circus tent – and, to hear acoustic, song-based music.  Mostly it’s blues, folk, contemporary or country music, but…it’s not always played on acoustic instruments.

It looks like 2025 is going to be a vintage year at the Acoustic Stage. We’ve been trying to get Nick Lowe back for years, but he had always been so busy… he must have a great agent. And then there’s the living legend, that is Roy Harper and that is all before we even get to our Friday night headliner, Ani DiFranco. And as Jimmy Cricket used to say: Come’ere come’ere… there’s more… two of our stage’s favourite acts, The Hothouse Flowers and The Bootleg Beatles are also booked to appear. Talking about The Beatles we have the immensely talented Mr Dhani Harrison making his debut on the Acoustic Stage’s hallowed boards. Long Ryders Sid Griffin has kindly agreed to host our Bob Dylan tribute. Look there is so much more… don’t you dare miss Henry Grace, the truly stunning Oisin Leech, or Our Man in The Field. We’re so excited that the incredible Jeremy Loops is bringing his magic music to us. In fact, we really do have a complete bill which shouldn’t be missed. Please check out the poster on the website.  We know we are so lucky that so many of our audience come up to the Acoustic Stage and stay for the entire weekend. We don’t complain, we join them.

It’s well known from Magherafelt to Milano, from Toronto to Timbuktu that the Glastonbury Acoustic Stage have the best singing audience in the world. Their most successful achievement being how brilliantly they filled in all of Paul Simon’s parts the night Art Garfunkel appeared in 2016. We mention them here only because we’re very proud of them and we imagine they’ll be in fine voice once again as they accompany The Searchers on their final ever appearance on Friday night and The London Community Gospel Choir on Sunday afternoon. 

We hope you enjoy.     

FRIDAY
Ani DiFranco
The Searchers
Dhani Harrison
Billie Marten
Skerryvore
Hugh Cornwell
Gabrielle Aplin
Tift Merritt
Nadia Reid
Our Man in the Field

SATURDAY
Nick Lowe
Hothouse Flowers
Jeremy Loops
The Coronas
The Bluebells
Not Completely Unknown A Celebration of the Songs of Bob Dylan with special guests
Sophie B. Hawkins
Oisin Leech
Lorraine Nash
Henry Grace

SUNDAY
Roy Harper
The Bootleg Beatles
Rhiannon Giddens with Dirk Powell
London Community Gospel Choir
PP Arnold
The Riptide Movement
Michele Stodart
The Henry Girls
Dawn Landes & Friends Perform The Liberated Woman’s Songbook