Emily Eavis

Following her mother's death in 1999, Eavis began assisting her father in running the festival and became co-organiser of the event.[6] She is now responsible for overseeing the line-up of the festival.[7] In 2007, Eavis created The Park area with her partner, music manager Nick Dewey.[8] In 2008, Eavis booked the festival's first hip hop headliner, Jay-Z.[9] Eavis married Dewey in August 2009; the couple have three children, sons born in 2011 and 2013 and a daughter born in 2016.[10][11][12] The couple is responsible for booking all of Glastonbury's main stages, with Dewey now the festival's Head of Music Programming.[13] Other headliners Eavis and Dewey have booked include The Rolling Stones, Adele, Bruce Springsteen, Beyoncé, Stevie Wonder, Dolly Parton, Kanye West, Neil Young, Lionel Richie, Blur, Paul Simon, Arctic Monkeys, Electric Light Orchestra, Radiohead, Foo Fighters and Ed Sheeran.[14] Eavis has also booked African and Middle Eastern artists on the Pyramid Stage. including Amadou & Mariam, Rokia Traore, Bassekou Kouyate, Songhoy Blues, Baaba Maal and Syrian National Orchestra for Arabic Music.[14]

Eavis has organised several fundraising concerts for Oxfam, including a Make Trade Fair concert at London's Astoria in October 2002 with Coldplay, Noel Gallagher and Ms Dynamite[15] and a show at the Hammersmith Apollo in September 2004 headlined by REM.[16] Eavis also organised a concert opposing the Iraq war at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in 2003, featuring Coldplay, Paul Weller, Faithless and Ronan Keating.[17]