Known for its huge draw, Glastonbury is promising more female headliners in 2016. The head organizer, Emily Eavis, has made it her personal mission to add more women following the controversy that occurred last year over the lack of female acts booked. The festival is slated for the weekend of June 22-26 at Worthy Farm in the UK and Muse, Adele and Coldplay have been rumored as headliners.
According to NME, a study conducted in 2014 showed that a mere 3.5 percent of festival performers that year were all-female groups in comparison to the whopping 43 percent that were all-male groups. Solo female artists ranked even lower on the scale, with just 15% women to 24% solo male acts.
"There are loads of great female MCs coming through this year which is quite exciting," Eavis said in an interview with Noisey. "Little Simz and Lady Leshurr and people like that. There's a feeling in the Silver Hayes that a lot of exciting stuff will be happening over there. This is the crunch point with all our bookings."
Eavis also expressed that the festival is aiming to include more genres in the roster at this year's event, saying, "Musically we're still keeping it as open as possible. We've got a great bill coming together. In fact, we're quite far down the line with that. Hopefully we'll be able to give you some names soon."
When asked if she could even give a hint about possible headliner names, she said, "Hmmm. Not really. But we are strong on women this year, I have to say. The Park is my, kind of, baby. We get really extremely excited about what we put on there."
There have been a number of rumored acts for Glastonbury 2016, but the whispers that Miley Cyrus, who recently released experimental pop album Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Petz, might be performing were by far, the most bizarre. Organizer Michael Eavis originally debunked reports that Cyrus would be a potential performer at Glastonbury, but did admit that "there's a place" for Cyrus at the festival recently.
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