Fort Worth’s Leon Bridges shows Panther City pride to massive Glastonbury crowd in UK
Leon Bridges is a proud goodwill ambassador for Fort Worth wherever he’s performing around the world.
That included perhaps his biggest stage to date when the hometown star played in front of more than 100,000 Saturday at the Glastonbury Festival in the United Kingdom.
Bridges and his band’s hourlong set on the West Holts stage included the song “Beyond” from his 2018 album Good Thing. The performance was posted by BBC Music on YouTube. Paul McCartney was Saturday night’s headliner.
His stage backdrop includes a massive black panther with Fort Worth stamped in the middle.
Fort Worth residents have long embraced the nickname Panther City after a Dallasite famously joked in 1875 that the town was so dead, somebody saw a panther asleep on a downtown street.
This story was originally published June 27, 2022 at 10:23 PM.
