A Wells music duo who reached no 2 in the iTunes chart at Christmas 2020 with a charity single in memory of all the lives lost during the pandemic are to perform at 2022's Glastonbury Festival.

The Portraits worked with local choirs and young orchestral musicians performing virtually from lockdown to produce their slowed down seasonal arrangement of Phil Oakey and Giorgio Moroder's disco classic Together In Electric Dreams'which received widespread media and celebrity support at the end of 2020.

At the time of its release, Stephen Fry, Midge Ure and Matt Lucas heaped praise on the song on Twitter, and the band were invited onto ITV's This Morning and Channel 5's Jeremy Vine Show, with the single eventually reaching no 2 on the iTunes chart in December 2020.

The track returned to the news in November 2021 when accusations emerged on social media, later backed up by the findings of leading musicologist Guy Protheroe, that a version of the same song performed by 20-year-old London singer Lola Young on the soundtrack to John Lewis's 2021 Christmas advert, 'An Unexpected Guest', was likely to have been copied from The Portraits' 2020 version.

Whilst John Lewis denied this was the case, in late November the retailer made a 'substantial' and undisclosed donation to the two major charities - Cruse Bereavement Support and MIND – to which The Portraits had donated all the proceeds from their single.

Now, the duo have been invited to perform at next month's Glastonbury Festival as it returns after a two-year hiatus due to Covid-19, as singer Lorraine Millington explains. "It has been a truly up and down period for everyone", she says. "We've been so fortunate not to lose anyone to Covid, but through our work with bereaved families, we feel like we've had a close-up view of the pain so many have been through. Like most musicians, our work has been thrown into huge doubt - it feels strange to get back out into the world, and where better to make that happen than at Glastonbury."

The Portraits will perform on several stages at the festival, kicking off with an early evening slot on the Wednesday evening on the Toad Hall stage in the Green Futures area. The full list of their performances is: Wednesday 22nd June, 6.30pm - Toad Hall; Wednesday 22nd June, 8.00pm - Mandala Stage; Thursday 23rd June, 5.00pm - Mandala Stage; Friday 24th June, 4.00pm - Small World Stage; Saturday 25th June, 11.00am - Avalon Café (Flying Machine Café) Stage.