Iain Archer
Mainstage Friday
Ivor Novello award winner and Greenbelt inspiration to many a wannabe acoustic genius, Iain Archer is back with his lyrical witticisms and honey-soaked vocals.
Estelle
Mainstage Saturday
Queen of British Hip-hop and Mobo award-winner, Estelle is one of the hottest urban rap artists in the UK.
The Proclaimers
Mainstage Sunday
Do you remember hollering the global anthem ‘I’m Gonna be’ along with The Proclaimers as part of Greenbelt 1988? Well, with a sixth studio album under their belt they’re back and ever-more persevering.
Gilles Peterson
Mainstage Monday
Time Out magazine says he’s a "funky, jazzy, Latin-flavoured extremely groovy thing." Join Radio One DJ Gilles Peterson in his search for the perfect beat.
Jazz Jamaica
Mainstage Monday
For 2005, Gary Crosby has launched a brand new project, a new band and new album! The project, Motorcity Roots, embraces the legacy of the Motown label and its enormous contribution to the world of great music.
Emmanuel Jal
Mainstage Monday
After his storming set at Nelson Mandela's Birthday Party bash in Hyde Park and with the release of an acclaimed new album, Emmanuel Jal is back to play Greenbelt again on the same bill as Michael Franti. Dynamite. And his story is every bit as amazing as his performances ...
Emiliana Torrini
Mainstage Friday
One Little Indian prodigy Emiliana Torrini has written for Kylie Monogue and been produced by Tears for Fears’ Roland Orzabal. Half-Italian and half-Icelandic, she’s a melting pot of diva and dilettante.
Kendall Payne
Mainstage Saturday
She’s been courted by tinsel town, with songs from her debut album being featured on the soundtracks for blockbuster films Never Been Kissed starring Drew Barrymore and Beautiful, starring Minnie Driver. And she’s also toured with the likes of Dido and Lilith Fair.
Carleen Anderson
Mainstage Sunday
With a host of relatives saturated in the gospel-blues genes, it’s inevitable that Carleen Anderson went on to be the lead singer of the ‘R’n’B funk band the Brand New Heavies.
Duke Special
Mainstage Monday
He’s not a Duke but he more than makes up for it in specialness. Dynamic, musically ambitious and charmingly eccentric, Duke Special is wowing the world with his lush but intimate musicality. Hailing from Belfast he can, and does, rhyme the words clown and Frankenstein. He calls his sound “hobo-chic”; we say once you’ve heard it you’ll never forget it.
Tree63
Mainstage Saturday
Originally hailing from Durban, South Africa, Tree63 have scored major hits in their homeland.
Classical Music
Around the site / TBC
Another breath-takingly varied and participatory programme, including...
Jim Moray 4
Mainstage Friday
Twenty-one year old Jim Moray is churning up the English folk music scene.
Superhero
Mainstage Saturday
Superhero’s straight-ahead passionate rock sticks unswervingly to the straight and narrow.
Pure Reason Revolution
Mainstage Monday
Spacey astro-folk has been one unique phrase that music critics have used to try to capture a sense of Pure Reason Revolution.
John Davis
Mainstage Saturday
From Tennessee, singer-songwriter and mutli-instrumentalist John Davis employs the lyrical language of traditional gospel and gospel-blues.
Ben Castle
Mainstage Sunday
At age seven he was playing the piano and clarinet and by the age of nine he’d discovered the sax and Deep Purple, now Ben Castle no longer has to be introduced as the "son of much-loved, Record-Breaking Roy…" But we’ll mention it anyway…
Daby Touré
Mainstage Monday
Music stole the life of Daby Touré, the Paris-based, Mauritanian-born virtual one-man band who has supported Peter Gabriel and been a hit mainstage act at Womad.
Martha Tilston
Mainstage Friday
She’s supported Damien Rice on tour around Ireland, has appeared on Radio 4’s Loose Ends programme, and has a song on the Big Issue’s Peace Not War CD. And all this before Martha has even recorded her debut solo album.
Ella Guru
Centaur Friday
Liverpudlians Ella Guru are all "soft stealth and harmony snuggled under a winter duvet," says Uncut Magazine .
Karine Polwart
Mainstage Sunday
Have we got room to list all of Karine Polwart’s accolades and awards? Just. At this year’s BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards she scooped 'Best Album', 'Best Original Song' and the 'Horizon Award' for 'Best Emerging Artist'.
Duncan Senyatso
Mainstage Monday
As lead singer with Botswana’s most popular band, The Kgwanyape Band, Duncan Senyatso has opened for UB40, Eric Clapton and Paul Simon.
John Davis
Centaur Friday
From Tennessee, singer-songwriter and mutli-instrumentalist John Davis employs the lyrical language of traditional gospel and gospel-blues.
Corinne Bailey Rae
Mainstage Sunday
Rare discovery Corrine Bailey Rae has co-written and performed with Craig David's producer Mark Hill and with the New Mastersounds. Make sure you reserve a front seat to enjoy her unadulterated talent and soothing soul voice.
Aradhna
Centaur Saturday
Bored of the same old, same old worship music? Then let Aradhna bring you songs of devotion and complete surrender – in a style that will wake up all your senses.
Ricky Ross
Centaur Sunday
On his first solo tour for several year Ricky Ross, Deacon Blue frontman, brings Greenbelt with songs from his newly released solo album Pale Rider, and a host of classics from his back catalogue.
People’s Christian Fellowship Choir
Mainstage Monday
London-based People’s Christian Fellowship Choir inspire us to keep reaching up to the Tree of Life with their powerful blend of gospel praise and worship.
Four Kornerz
Mainstage Sunday
Scooping 'Best Newcomers' at last year's Gospel Entertainment Music Awards, Four Kornerz are an independent success story.
Twisted Folk : Hem, , The Memory Band, , Martha Tilston,
Centaur Saturday
Stop Press: Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to cancel the Twisted Folk billing for this Greenbelt.
The Works
Centaur Saturday
Collective improvisation forms the heart of the Works’ approach. They’ve toured internationally and recorded with artists of surprisingly different genres – Nigel Kennedy, Annie Lennox, June Tabor and Radiohead.
Juliet Turner
Centaur Sunday
A guitar left mysteriously on her front porch on the day of her fifteenth birthday gave Juliet Turner her first strum into making music.
Matt Redman
Centaur Sunday
"When we face up to the glory of God, we find ourselves facedown in worship."
Tim Hughes
Centaur Sunday
Injecting a fresh longing and lyrically authenticity into worship songs, Tim Hughes is one of the UK and Ireland’s favourite worship songwriters.
Johnny Parks
Centaur Sunday
For the good and the great, Belfast-based worship leader Johnny Parks has led worship for thousands of people at Spring Harvest, Cross Rhythms, Summer Madness and Worship Together events.
The Amazing Pilots
Stage 2 Saturday
The Amazing Pilots play it quiet and intelligent. Phil is all subtle accents on the drums, allowing brother Paul to let the melodies veer and shimmy, finding a deal of joy, surprise and rapture.
The Cinematic Underground
Stage 2 Saturday
Fusing film, illustration, horns and abstract theatre into a live stage show, The Cinematic Underground continue to turn the idea of musical narrative on its head. This international collective truly stretches the boundaries of a band.
One Nation
Stage 2 Friday
Described as “one of the most exciting crossover funk acts in Britain today” One Nation return to Greenbelt with their global funk sound, blending Latin and jazz with funk and world rhythms.
Rivertribe
Stage 2 Friday
Rivertribe combines instruments from around the world to create music that leads listeners on a journey that extends from the earth to the heavens and back.
Miss Black America
Stage 2 Sunday
Miss Black America don't lend themselves to the usual crop of vacuum-headed PR platitudes.
Replenish
Stage 2 Monday
Replenish are a three-piece guitar-based rock band from the south coast of England who mix fat riffs, gutsy lyrics and hooky melodies. Jam Magazine says "you may have heard this type of music before, you just may have never heard it sound so good", and who are we to argue?
Onehundredhours
Saturday
Faith, hope, and rock 'n' roll. With Onehundredhours, they merge into one story, one sound.
One Step Beyond
Var. Music
One Step beyond is Greenbelt's grassroots hip hop, jazz and world music venue. Run late and lazy, last year it proved a real hit and this year it's back with another stellar lineup.
The Race
Stage 2 Saturday
Reading-based band The Race can already boast support slots on the Supergrass spring tour and were the first unsigned band to record a hub session for BBC 6Music.
The Restless Horizon
Saturday, Monday
Songs and writers that scour the crannies of the soul to bring you a peep into your own.
Stage 2 acts
Stage 2
Performance Cafe
Performance Cafe
The Performance Cafe has been called "the best venue at Greenbelt". Admittedly by the man who runs it, but it's a start. A fabulously intimate space where you can chill out, eat a falafel from Nuts - the adjoining veggie cafe - and enjoy unplugged music of the highest calibre. A chance to see mainstage acts up close and personal, as well as some exclusive sets. The 2005 line-up looks like this:
Isaac Slade
Performance Cafe Saturday, Monday
From the sleepy sprawl of America's Mile-High City, Isaac Slade comes to Greenbelt fresh from supporting Weezer and Ben Folds on their US tours this summer, with his band The Fray.
Beth Rowley
Performance Cafe Sunday
With sales of her debut album Little Dreamer now approaching 100 thousand, Beth Rowley makes a triumphant return to Greenbelt. Fusing her vintage sound and sensibility with a joyous, contemporary edge, Beth Rowley has this year become essential listening.
LDL
Performance Cafe Saturday
The artists formerly known as Lies Damned Lies, Greenbelt stalwarts LDL have been making music together since 1989. Steve, Charlie and Dot cite influences as wide as Arvo Pärt and Prince and produce a sound which is deep, warm, beautiful and often deceptively simple. After Virtue is their fifth album on their own Sticky Music label, which has also been home to Juliet Turner, Ricky Ross and Iain Archer.
Cathy Burton
Performance Cafe Monday
A firm fixture on the list of Greenbelt favourites, Cathy Burton has a voice of emotional resonance and tender fragility that recalls pop goddess Harriet Wheeler of The Sundays.
Ben Christophers
Performance Cafe Sunday
The Independent gave Cooking Vinyl artist Ben Christophers’ latest offering - The Spaces In Between - 4 stars and waxed lyrical about its “eerie spaced-out folk songs of the purest longing, wrapped up in enigmatic samples and dipped in honey melodies”.
Brant Christopher
Stage 2 Saturday
Singer/songwriter Brant Christopher returns for his third Greenbelt to showcase the new the material he's been touring across the USA at concerts and festivals throughout 2005. He fuses the intimacy of Folk with elements of Ben Folds, John Mayer, (and even classic U2) to create a familiar sound that is uniquely his own.
infuenced : Modeste
Gallery Saturday
After grabbing headlines at the WOMAD festival the BBC Africa Lives season now brings Modeste to Greenbelt for the first time. Appearances on BBC radio and a string of recording contracts guarantee that this will be a highly entertaining and high quality experience. Modeste's music is instantly appealing and is modern and dance orientated. The strong Madagascan influence can be instantly recognised. Modeste performs in the BBC Africa Lives exhibition surrounded by images and sculptures created by African artists living or working in the Uk. Evocative and gripping.
Linos Magaya
Monday
A star of the BBC World Music project on BBC Radio 3 and the BBC Africa on Your Street series Linos is a talented African musician . His music is influenced by his Zimbabwean background and the Negombwe tribe. He is a talented player of the mbira -a traditional African instrument- and has an extraordinary voice to match making this a very special experience for anyone interested in Africa. Hear Linos in the atmospheric setting of the BBC Africa Lives exhibition surrounded by images and sculptures created by African artists living in the UK.
After The Fire
Saturday
The make-up of the band is different, the charts have moved on, but the band who toured with ELO, Queen, Van Halen and U2 are back and ready to start a new chapter in their history.
Steve
Saturday
Formed over eight years ago, relative old hands Steve have played all over the world.
