Matt Fidler and Ben Beaumont-Thomas; photography by David Levene, Jonny Weeks and Alecsandra Raluca Drăgoi 

Shangri-La, stetsons and SZA: Sunday at Glastonbury – a photo essay

The Guardian’s visuals team wrapped things up at Worthy Farm in style, capturing Shania Twain, Nia Archives, intimate family photos with Burna Boy – and a certain football game
  
  

Burna Boy plays the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury Festival.
Burna Boy plays the Pyramid stage on Sunday at Glastonbury. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

As the festival entered its final day, Guardian photographer David Levene was up in a cherry picker to catch the crowds as they partied into the night in Shangri-La in the south-east corner of the site.

The hugely imaginative space is like a vast open-air art gallery, presenting satirical, anti-authoritarian, anticapitalist visual art alongside high-energy DJ sets and punkish live shows – set amid repurposed buses, Tube trains and more.

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England’s progress in the Euros feels a world away here at Glastonbury, but there were plenty of fans on site determined to watch the game and show their support for the lads.

  • George Fox and Gilly Makepeace before Shania Twain’s concert and the football match. George bought a Vodafone sim to watch the game ‘in case he doesn’t find a pub’.

Paloma Faith was third up on the Pyramid stage, just after lunchtime.

  • Paloma Faith on the Pyramid stage. Photographs by Jonny Weeks

Shania Twain brought country and camp, and was the biggest draw of the afternoon on the Pyramid stage.

  • Shania Twain on the Pyramid Stage. Photograph by Alecsandra Raluca Drăgoi

But amid all the quality music, the football understandably continued to be a distraction for many festival goers.

  • Lorraine and Shaw watching football while listening to Avril Lavigne at the Other stage.

Later on, David Levene was granted exclusive stage access to photograph Burna Boy’s Pyramid stage show.

  • Burna Boy speaks with his mum just before he goes out on stage at the Pyramid stage.

Our photographer Alecsandra found a position high up the hill facing the Pyramid stage, and met fans waiting for SZA’s festival-closing performance.

  • Aron and Arneil at the Pyramid stage for SZA.

  • Natasha Mutungi and Dimenji Adesanya

  • Lucia in pink with friend.

  • Charlotte and Stefan, with Corey and Clea at SZA.

Another Guardian photographer, Jonny Weeks, was over at the Other stage photographing the final performance there: the National.

  • The National at the Other stage, with frontman Matt Berninger getting up close to fans at the front.

And finally, SZA closed out three nights of magnificently high-production Pyramid stage action, with a fantasia blending natural and technological imagery, a half-toppled tree – and a fair bit of twerking.

  • SZA performing on the Pyramid. stage. Photographs by Alecsandra Raluca Drăgoi

  • The End: SZA’s finale on the Pyramid stage

 

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