[1/3] The Master Musicians of Joujouka perform at the Glastonbury Festival site in Somerset, Britain, June 23, 2023. REUTERS/Jason CairnduffGLASTONBURY, England, June 23 (Reuters) - Glastonbury Festival's main Pyramid Stage opened on Friday to the sounds of The Master Musicians of Joujouka, a trance music collective from Morocco, as tens of thousands of fans kicked off three days of music and merrymaking under a blazing English sun. Fellow headliners Arctic Monkeys' Friday evening performance will go ahead, organisers confirmed, following doubts after frontman Alex Turner contracted laryngitis. They're on," organiser Emily Eavis, whose father Michael started Glastonbury Festival on his farm 53 years ago, told BBC Radio. Asked about the opening performance from the Moroccan collective, she replied with a chuckle: "It was different.

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Persons: Joujouka, Jason Cairnduff GLASTONBURY, Elton John, Alex Turner, laryngitis, Emily Eavis, Michael, Brian Jones, Leslie Mills, Coke, Sachin Ravikumar, William James Our Organizations: REUTERS, Joujouka, Glastonbury Festival, BBC Radio, Glastonbury, Fighters, Thomson Locations: Glastonbury, Somerset, Britain, England, Morocco, British, Moroccan