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Engaged with culture, inspired by the arts, sustained by faith, Greenbelt aspires to be an open generous community with four days of music, arts, ideas and faith in country house grounds.
For its 42nd consecutive year, Greenbelt Festival is inspired by R S Thomas’s poem The Bright Field. Settling into its second residency in the idyllic grounds of Boughton House, the festival will reflect the poem’s call for pause, exploration, discovery, and finding the treasure in the everyday. Focussed on building for a sustainable future, this year the festival reflects and celebrates the grassroots.
The programme introduces a rich and diverse array of thinkers, poets, musicians, theologians, covering themes including peace, ecology, climate change, community, forgiveness, immigration, fashion, mental health, interfaith, sexuality, and media.
Visit www.greenbelt.org.uk/festival/2015/ for more information.
Music
- Duke Special
- Josephine
- Marcus Bonfanti
- Kari
- The Coopers
- Marc O'Reilly
- Worry Dolls
- Speak Brother
- Joni Fuller
- The Polyphonic Spree
- King Porter Stomp
- Pascuala Ilabaca And Fauna
- Zara McFarlane
- Scott Matthews
- Shlomo
- The Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus
- Ciaran Lavery
- The Unthanks
- Kiran Ahluwalia
- This Is The Kit
- Sam Brookes
- Tom Butler
- Bert Miller & The Animal Folk
- Ella and the Blisters
- Danni Nicholls
- Miriam Jones
- Martyn Joseph
- Grace Petrie
- Burning Codes
- King Kool
- CoCo And The Butterfields
- Folk On
- Matt Sellors
- The Homegrown Collective
- Garth Hewitt
Performing Arts
- Ockham's Razor
- Acrojou Circus Theatre
- Half Moon
- M Is For Media
- Christian Lee
- Ockham's Razor
- Trash Dollys
- Le Navet Bete
- Testament
- Racheal Ofori
- Caroline Horton
- Andrew Harrison
- Blunderbus Theatre Company
Comedy
- Vince Atta
- Brian Damage & Krysstal
- Rosalind Peters
- Mrs Barbara Nice (Janice Connolly)
- Ava Vidal
- Paul Kerensa
- Jason Patterson
- Mrs Barbara Nice (Janice Connolly)
- Wes Zaruruk
- Andy Kind
Talks & Ideas
- Giles Fraser
- Maya Evans
- Madeleine Bunting
- Paul Vallely
- Richard Reynolds
- David Barclay
- Tom Mcleish
- Joanna Jepson
- Mona Siddiqui
- Marina Cantacuzino
- Katherine Welby-Roberts
- Anjum Anwar
- Steve Chalke
- Jeremy Moodey
- Peter Stanford
- Marika Rose
- Orit Azaz
- Catherine Ogle
Literature & Spoken Word
- Patience Agbabi
- Carys Bray
- El Gruer
- A L Kennedy
- Holly McNish
- Vanessa Kisuule
Also Appearing
- John Bell
- Abdul-Rehman Malik
- Kate Bottley
- Jeff Halper
- Ruth Hunt
- Paula Gooder
- Peterson Toscano
- Bidisha
- Dave Andrews
Duke Special
A singer and songwriter from Belfast. He has a unique live show that mixes an old gramophone with passionate vocals, piano playing and the occasional…
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The Polyphonic Spree
As big bands go, you won't get much bigger then this choral rock ensemble from Austin, Texas. Fluctuating between 15-26 members in matching robes…
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The Unthanks
Tyneside sisters Rachel and Becky Unthank with Niopha Keegan (violin), Adrian McNally (piano) plus string quartet, brass, percussion and bass. Rachel…
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Martyn Joseph
Cardiff's acclaimed singer songwriter is an incomparable performer with an uncanny knack of fusing fearless, full-bodied 'songs with a message' with…
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Vamos Theatre
UK-based Vamos Theatre creates innovative full mask theatre that brims with visual inventiveness, music, puppetry, dexterity and hilarity.
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Ockham's Razor
Award winning aerial artists combining circus, dance and visual theatre. Ockham's Razor is an Artistic Associate of artsdepot. 'There is something so…
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Ockham's Razor
Award winning aerial artists combining circus, dance and visual theatre. Ockham's Razor is an Artistic Associate of artsdepot. 'There is something so…
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Vince Atta
Hot comedy talent from Manchester. It's fair to say that everything Vince Atta touches turns to gold. His high-octane performances, stunning delivery…
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Jason Patterson
Comedian from MTV Base's comedy funhouse. His strong performances have led to him being nominated for Best Newcomer at the Black Entertainment Comedy…
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Steve Chalke
Steve Chalke MBE, author, speaker, TV and radio presenter, businessman, social entrepreneur, husband and father, began public life as a Baptist…
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Patience Agbabi
Performance poet and lecturer, born in London in 1965 to Nigerian parents, and whose debut poetry collection won the 1997 Excelle Literary Award.
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Matt Haig
Matt Haig is the number one, bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and six highly acclaimed novels for adults, including How to Stop Time, The…
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A L Kennedy
Award-winning Scottish writer. She is the author of the fiction 'Original Bliss', So I Am Glad' and 'Indelible Acts' and numerous TV, stage and film…
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Josephine
Manchester-born Josephine combines a wide variety of influences, including her mixed African and Jamaican heritage, to create songs that span various…
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Marcus Bonfanti
The London-born Blues guitarist was born and raised in a tiny flat to an English mother and an Italian father. Despite picking up the guitar for the…
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The Coopers
Happy folk sung by happy folk, with a twist of pop thrown in for good measure. Having only crossed paths little over a year ago, The Coopers have…
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Boughton House
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Boughton House
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