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Notting Hill Carnival and Glastonbury team up for new collaboration

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Notting Hill Carnival and Glastonbury have teamed up together for a new collaboration in the Block9 area of the festival.Block9, the legendary “late-night” area of Glastonbury are creating a ‘home base’ for the Notting Hill carnival crew in their Block9 East field.

Carnival processions will tour the Festival site and feature acts including The Mangrove Steelband.A statement about the collaboration added: “DJ’s from Carnival bands also join the troupe to play on the world’s first 100% green electric carnival float.

Masqueraders and Moko Jumbie from several long standing British Mas bands will come together for the procession and the parade will end with cooldown sessions at the Block9 East home base.”Matthew Phillip, CEO of Notting Hill Carnival, said: “This is a collaboration we have been working on for a while now and are delighted to finally be making it happen.

The heritage and history of Notting Hill Carnival is hugely important to the British cultural landscape in many of the same ways as Glastonbury Festival is, and they hold many of the same beliefs and represent the country on a global scale.“Block9’s vision to make this possible is incredible – they are famed for creating grand and unique experiences that I see are akin to many of the performers of Carnival in their scale and ambition.

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