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Michael and Emily Eavis have confirmed that there will not be a Glastonbury Festival in 2021 as details for a new festival to be held elsewhere were clarified.

In an interview with Music Week earlier this week, Emily Eavis confirmed that the Glastonbury Festival would take a break next year, before returning to the Worthy Farm site for the following two years.

But in 2021, the festival will take another break, being replaced by the Variety Bazaar which will be held at a separate location.

Ms Eavis said: "The plan is we’ll do another event in 2021, which will be called The Variety Bazaar, and that will be somewhere else.

"It’s not going to be an average Glastonbury but it will be produced by the team behind Glastonbury. We’re looking at three different sites elsewhere at the moment.

"The Variety Bazaar will probably be instead of Glastonbury that year. But it’s a long way off and plans can definitely change."

Music Week added that Eavis confirmed that the event will "most likely take place instead of Glastonbury 2021, rather than in addition to it".

And further details, along with the anticipated timeline which was revealed by Somerset Live earlier this year, emerged in an interview with Michael and Emily Eavis by ITV Westcountry today.

During the interview, Michael, who said he still fundamentally considers himself a farmer, said: "We've got three sites at the moment and we'll choose one of them. Emily and I have got to decide if we have the courage and gumption to do it somewhere else."

So what is happening?

Next year (2018) will be a fallow year - there will be no festival that year, to allow the Worthy Farm site to rest

Ms Eavis said: "The farm needs a rest, the land gets battered obviously. Because we’re in a very small local community, it is good to have a little bit of a break from that side of things."

The festival will be back as normal in 2019.

In 2020, the festival will celebrate its 50th anniversary - so expect big things in terms of the line-up.

Then in 2021, the Variety Bazaar will be held - but NOT at the Glastonbury site. There will be no Glastonbury Festival in 2021.

What shape will the Variety Bazaar take?

Ms Eavis has not confirmed the precise location where the Variety Bazaar will be held, stating only that they are looking at three different sites at the moment and that it will not be held at Worthy Farm.

It will also be "slightly smaller" and will have more of a fringe-y character than the main festival.

But it will still have the same mix of music, ideas and installations which have characterised the main festival for years.

Will Glastonbury be back after 2021?

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Yes - the festival is expected to return to the normal site in 2022.

Ms Eavis told Music Week: "We want to keep it going. It’s in a really good place, there’s an amazing team behind it and the atmosphere this year is so brilliant.

"There’s no reason why we would want it to stop, everybody wants to keep it going. While the public want to come and there’s so much positivity about it, then there’s no reason not to.

"We’ll keep it going for as long as we can, for sure."