Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis has received a knighthood in the New Year’s Honours, announced today.
Michael, 88, has received a CBE “for services to music and to charity.”
He leads the world’s biggest outdoor music festival in Glastonbury every summer and has given millions of pounds to charitable projects in Somerset, including social housing.
“We started with 500 people and we’ve finished up with millions wanting to come every year. That’s quite extraordinary, isn’t it?,” he says on the Glastonbury Festival website.
In 2013, Mr Eavis told a national newspaper interview that Burnham-On-Sea is his favourite place in Somerset, as reported here.
Michael, who has been seen many times walking along Burnham seafront with his wife over the years, says he loves the town for being “laid back and unspoilt.”
He switched on Burnham’s town centre Christmas lights in 2019 and also in 2008. Also, in 2011 Michael officially opened Burnham-On-Sea tourist information centre.
