Greenbelt Through the Decades: The 1990s
To celebrate our 50th anniversary, we've asked some of the folk who've helped bring Greenbelt Festival to life over the last 50 years to write a little something about their festival experiences....
Martha Sprackland
Martha Sprackland is an editor, writer and translator. Citadel (Pavilion, 2020) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Costa Poetry Award; a new collection is...
Martín Espada
Martín Espada has published more than twenty books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator. His latest book of poems is called Jailbreak of Sparrows (2025). His previous...
Yaz Jenkins
Yaz Jenkins is a trained performer, writer and workshop facilitator originally from Oxford, having studied at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Her spoken word poetry has a strong focus on...
Sue Parfitt
Sue was ordained an Anglican priest with the first women to be made priests in 1994. Her earlier professional career was as a family therapist. She helped set up the first Family Therapy Institute...
Penguin Cafe
If you music for the head and the heart, you will love Penguin Cafe. Arthur Jeffes brought together a talented and disparate group of musicians to perform the music of the world-renowned Penguin Cafe...
Nick Lowles
Nick Lowles has spent a lifetime fighting racism, fascism and extremism – first with the antifascist magazine Searchlight and then with HOPE not hate, the organisation he founded back in 2004 in...
Martyn Joseph
Greenbelt legend Martyn Joseph shows no sign of tiring after the release of his 28th studio album Troubled Horses. Concerned with making music that is relevant and vital to his audience, he engages...
Mina Smallman
Mina Smallman MBE is an activist and the former Archdeacon of Southend. Prior to becoming the first woman of colour to be an Archdeacon in the Church of England, Mina worked as a schoolteacher for...
Lucy Winkett
Lucy Winkett is Rector of St James's Piccadilly, and Priest in Charge of St Pancras Euston Road, a writer, broadcaster and musician. One of the first generation of women to be ordained priest in...
Laughter Yoga with Anna Semlyen
Laughter fills your cup with giggles. Play short drama scenarios aimed to get you chuckling with laughter leader Anna Semlyen. Come be silly and loud. We initiate laughter. Be willing to play along...
Ann Pettifor
Sovereign debt expert Ann is director of the PRIME economics network and a member of Labour's Economic Advisory Committee.
Arrested Development
True hip-hop trailblazers since the early 90s – Rolling Stone named them Band of The Year in 1992 – Arrested Development are cultural champions of consciousness and empowerment across the planet....
The Long Saturday
Easter Saturday. That in-between time. Liminal. Now and not yet. Emotionally, psychologically and spiritually, it's perhaps where most of us live, most of the time. Somewhere between despair and...
Meet the second slice of names for this year’s lineup
Just to further whet your appetites and give you a little more of a flavour for how the bill is shaping up, and what to expect at this year's Greenbelt Festival, we're pleased to announce another...