Emily Rose Eavis (born July 1979) is co-organiser of the annual Glastonbury Festival, and the youngest daughter of the festival's founder and organiser Michael Eavis and his second wife Jean.[1][2]
Eavis married music manager Nick Dewey in August 2009; the couple have three children, sons born in 2011 and 2013 and a daughter born in 2016.[6][7][8]
Following her mother's death in 1999, Eavis began assisting her father in running the festival and became co-organiser of the event.[9] Since then, she has steadily taken over the running of the festival from her father.[10]
In 2007, Eavis created The Park area with her partner, Dewey[11] and in 2008, Eavis booked the festival's first hip hop headliner, Jay-Z.[12] Eavis and Dewey are now responsible for booking all of Glastonbury's main stages, with Dewey officially the festival's Head of Music Programming.[13]
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]
Eavis has advocated female equality in music and equal representation across stages at Glastonbury.[18] In 2019, Eavis was behind Glastonbury's decision to ban the sale of single-use plastic bottles at that year's festival in a bid to cut waste.[19]
She is an ambassador for Oxfam,[20] gender equality movement Keychange,[21] music charity the PRS Foundation[22] and Visit Somerset,[23] as well as a patron for the childhood bereavement charity Winston's Wish[24] and Frome's not-for-profit music and arts venue the Cheese and Grain.[25]
In 2016, Eavis and her father Michael were awarded honorary fellowships from Goldsmiths University of London.[26] In 2019, she was awarded the Outstanding Contribution honour at the Music Week Women In Music Awards.[27] She was also named the Godlike Genius at the NME Awards 2020.[28]
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