Glastonbury Festival Announces Full Acoustic Stage Line-Up For 2025

by | Mar 22, 2025

Following the first line-up announcement for Glastonbury Festival 2025 dropping just a couple of weeks back and announcing all three Pyramid Stage headliners and boasting a line-up that really is a who’s who of contemporary music talent, today comes the news of the Acoustic Stage’s line-up!

The enigmatic American-Canadian musician Ani DiFranco tops the bill on Friday while Merseybeat band The Searchers will play their final ever show just before. Joining them on the day are Dhani Harrison, Billie Marten, Celtic rockers Skerryvore and the wonderful Gabrielle Aplin among others.

Gabrielle Aplin @ Village Underground

Gabrielle Aplin @ Village Underground (Kalpesh Patel)
Gabrielle Aplin @ Village Underground (Kalpesh Patel)

Saturday sees Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover hitmaker Sophie B. Hawkins gracing the stage alongside The Bluebells, Jeremy Loops and Hothouse Flowers before the night is closed out by power pop and new wave innovator Nick Lowe!

The final day of music at Glastonbury Festival 2025 will see The Magic Numbers alum Michele Stodart (might we see some glockenspiel?) appearing on The Acoustic Stage before the London Community Gospel Choir, Carolina Chocolate Drops founder Rhiannon Giddens and the always fun Bootleg Beatles appear. The stage will then be closed out by English folk rock singer Roy Harper.

Billie Marten @ Crystal Palace Park

Billie Marten @ Crystal Palace Park (Lauren Patel)
Billie Marten @ Crystal Palace Park (Lauren Patel)

Say Glastonbury Festival:

The Acoustic Stage is a festival within a festival. For the last thirty years or so, people have been trooping up the hill to the haven of the Acoustic field. The crowds visit the Acoustic Stage to either avoid the rain and, maybe even, the sun – in the sanctuary of a super-duper circus tent – and, to hear acoustic, song-based music. Mostly it’s blues, folk, contemporary or country music, but…it’s not always played on acoustic instruments.

It looks like 2025 is going to be a vintage year at the Acoustic Stage. We’ve been trying to get Nick Lowe back for years, but he had always been so busy… he must have a great agent. And then there’s the living legend, that is Roy Harper and that is all before we even get to our Friday night headliner, Ani DiFranco. And as Jimmy Cricket used to say: Come’ere come’ere… there’s more… two of our stage’s favourite acts, The Hothouse Flowers and The Bootleg Beatles are also booked to appear. Talking about The Beatles we have the immensely talented Mr Dhani Harrison making his debut on the Acoustic Stage’s hallowed boards. Long Ryders Sid Griffin has kindly agreed to host our Bob Dylan tribute. Look there is so much more… don’t you dare miss Henry Grace, the truly stunning Oisin Leech, or Our Man in The Field. We’re so excited that the incredible Jeremy Loops is bringing his magic music to us. In fact, we really do have a complete bill which shouldn’t be missed. We know we are so lucky that so many of our audience come up to the Acoustic Stage and stay for the entire weekend. We don’t complain, we join them.

It’s well known from Magherafelt to Milano, from Toronto to Timbuktu that the Glastonbury Acoustic Stage have the best singing audience in the world. Their most successful achievement being how brilliantly they filled in all of Paul Simon’s parts the night Art Garfunkel appeared in 2016. We mention them here only because we’re very proud of them and we imagine they’ll be in fine voice once again as they accompany The Searchers on their final ever appearance on Friday night and The London Community Gospel Choir on Sunday afternoon.

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