Sound CheckBaby girl born shortly after Rolling Stones concert at Glastonbury Festival
“Oh Baby.” The Rolling Stones played The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts for the first time on June 29 and after their set came to a close, a woman gave birth to a baby girl.
Festivalgoer Heidi Wesson, 33, went into labour two weeks prematurely at the concert and delivered a daughter at 3 a.m. on June 30. Wesson named her daughter Ivy, after the site’s Ivy Mead Medical Centre where she gave birth.
"Thanks to everyone for looking after us,” Wesson wrote on Facebook after the event, reports Metro. “We are over the moon and a little shattered ;-) xxx ps: sorry for interrupting your night off Nana bloody love you xxx.”
In a statement to The Independent, a spokesperson for The Glastonbury Festival extended their well wishes to Wesson and her partner Sean Crothers: “We’d like to send our congratulations to the family.”
They continued, “We look forward to welcoming them back in future years. We’ve had babies born here that are now grown-ups. They still come every year. That’s a beautiful thing.”
Prior to the show, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards expressed that he was looking forward to performing during the festival, saying, “It’s almost as if [we] were finally destined to play Glastonbury.”
He also said, “There were many years where we were offered it and turned it own. I look upon it as a culmination of our British heritage. It had to be done and it’s going to be done.”
The iconic rock band performed hits like “Paint It Black,” “Gimme Shelter,” “Wild Horses,” “Sympathy For The Devil,” “Brown Sugar,” “Start Me Up,” and more, including a special rendition of “Factory Girl,” which they tailored for the festival, calling it “Glastonbury Girl.”
