Piano-pop maestro, friend of Greenbelt, and Last Orders 2011 house band Luke Leighfield has a triple recommendation for Greenbelt. You can see Luke himself in the Underground on Greenbelt Monday at 8pm. — Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly Entertaining us on the Mainstage on Saturday night will be Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly, aka Sam [...]

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Greenbelt sponsors Traidcraft are pioneers in fair trade. Here's a bit from Traidcraft HQ about what to expect in their G-Source presence, opposite Prue's Cafe, throughout the weekend… Explore with us what it means to promote not just fair trade but ‘flourishing trade’ – bring/send your photos to us in G-Source during Greenbelt as we [...]

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Here's Sarah Goodman, who will be on the Greenbelt Blogging team this year, with why she's excited about Adrian Plass… — This will be my first year at Greenbelt, so I'm excited about pretty much everything. Except perhaps sharing my husband's ultra-high tech but absolutely miniscule tent. (You can only just squeeze two human beings [...]

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Here's Greenbelter Revd Simon Marshall from Solihull on looking forward to Kate Rusby… — It's been a few years since I ventured to Greenbelt, but the last time I was there I was overjoyed to enjoy a live set by the wonderful Kate Rusby. I had begun to love Kate's music several years before when [...]

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Here's Ian Braithwaite, who is excited about the Greenbelt Photo Flash Swap – an event rather close to his heart… — Greetings. I am running the Greenbelt Photo Flash Swap. Here's why I'm excited. The Photo Flash Swap is a photographic exhibition in The Hub. It's an exhibition that is populated by anyone and everyone [...]

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Here's Ben Whitehouse's third Why I'm Excited post – this time featuring novelist, writer and theatremaker Stella Duffy… — Hello. Me again. Still terribly excited about you lot and Jari. I’m clearly using the Greenbelt Blog in the same way a valve on a pressure cooker works so my excitement about the festival doesn’t overheat my [...]

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Here's James Stewart on the Economics Editor for Channel 4 News Faisal Islam, who will be speaking at the festival… — Shortly after Greenbelt explored the idea of the Long Now two years ago, I found myself at an event in central London exploring the idea of Long Finance. Organised around a UK visit by [...]

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Here's Peter Graystone on a bold and brilliant item on the Greenbelt programme, "Operation Greenfield" by Little Bulb Theatre… — Truth to tell, I didn’t think Greenbelt could ever improve on last year’s performing arts programme. I was wrong. This year’s line-up is superb from beginning to end. But the company I am most excited [...]

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Another in our series of Why I'm Excited posts, here's Greenbelt intern Caitlin Kobrak on the Where The Wild Things Are events at Greenbelt… — The amazing thing about Greenbelt is the vast array of different things there is to go and see, from the wonderful music acts to the stunning performing arts that will [...]

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Here's Programme Co-ordinator Eleanor Mottram on Candoco Dance Company… — In my role, it's very difficult to choose just one thing to be excited about. Having seen the programme develop, and the challenges of each booking, it takes something really special to deserve a blog post. Candoco Dance Company, however, deserve one. I love dance, [...]

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