Animal Byproducts
'Placid pals peddling power pop parps' - tuneful, trumpet-led folk-punk-emo harmonies infused with a DIY spirit.
Bruce Cockburn
“My job is to try and trap the spirit of things in the scratches of pen on paper and the pulling of notes out of metal.” One of Canada's finest artists, Bruce Cockburn has enjoyed an...
Carrie and David Grant
Carrie and David Grant are BAFTA award-winning broadcasters, vocal coaches, leadership coaches and campaigners. Their TV and music career has spanned over 40 years and they have been awarded a MOBO...
Andrew Copson
Andrew Copson was appointed Chief Executive of Humanists UK in 2009, having previously been its Director of Education and Public Affairs. He is also the current President of Humanists International,...
Bringing the magic
We're making a few changes to our site layout for the 50th which we think you'll love. This won't mean much if you've never been to Greenbelt at Boughton House before, of course (you're very welcome...
Can we talk about tickets for 2023?
When we first dreamed up our brand new approach to ticket prices, we knew it wasn't without some real challenges. After all, there's a reason that festivals use the familiar, deadline-driven...
Sam Pittam-Smith
Chair of Trustees Sam has been coming to the festival for over 30 years and is passionate about Greenbelt and what it stands for; a place to explore and relax, to be challenged and share our...
In the Bleak Midwinter
This episode of Greenbelt's ‘Somewhere To Believe In' comes in the form of a one-off Christmas reflection; brought to you by our friend Beloved Sara Zaltash, a ‘non-denominational...
Speaker(s): Beloved Sara ZaltashGreenbelt welcomes its new Chair of Trustees – Sam Pittam-Smith
Longterm Greenbelter Sam Pittam-Smith is the new Chair of the Greenbelt Trustee Board. Sam takes over from Steve Baker, who has stepped down after seven years at the helm. Sam has been coming to the...
…and now, the weather…
For our 2022 festival communion, we met to express the planet's fear and distress, to give words to creation's grief, and to ask for God's mercy. It was a service about climate care and climate...
Life begins at 50
Greenbelt turns 50 next year: a landmark moment that offers us a chance to reflect. To take stock but also to glimpse the future ahead. So in 2023 we'll be making two changes to Greenbelt that...
g-books: your official #GB22 bookshop
Our lovely friends at Church House Bookshop/Hymns A&M are back at Greenbelt once again, bringing our pop-up bookshop – g-books – to the festival site. Here's a guest blog post from them about...
Aislinn Evans
Aislinn Evans is an artist, writer, and educator. Their practice exists at the peripheries between art and writing, encompassing publication, performance, and video. Their top priority is making...
Beloved Sara Zaltash
I am a British-Iranian artist, musician, astrologer, spiritual practitioner and public mystic. I live to serve god(S) of all disciplines, ideologies and theologies. In any other moment in history,...
Grace with Nadia Bolz-Weber
It's the final episode in series three of our podcast *cries*, and some might say we've saved the best ‘til last. We get to it with festival friend and everyone's favourite Lutheran minister,...
Speaker(s): Nadia Bolz-Weber