Maggie Rogers: “A friend of mine said that festivals are an awesome excuse to be the loudest version of yourself”

Maggie Rogers has never played a festival before, which is no surprise given that she’s only 23 and is barely out of music school. The freckled, flaxen-haired singer-songwriter from Maryland is about to break her duck in spectacular fashion, though, when she plays Glastonbury on Saturday. Whatever happened to building up slowly?

You’d think that she might be quaking a little at the prospect of facing the Pilton hordes but this is a woman whose bewitching electronic folk has been endorsed by Pharrell Williams, Lorde and Mumford and Sons. She clearly can’t wait for Glastonbury, and a mark of her confidence is that she’ll be taking the stage dressed like a hippy superhero.

Rogers lays down her knife and fork at a hipster restaurant in