John Bell
John Bell first came to Greenbelt expecting it to be an advanced judo course where he might learn some new moves. He has been moving ever since. During the pandemic he learned how to right click and...
Tom McRae
British singer-songwriter, Tom McRae, 56, has released 9 solo studio albums to date, and 3 live albums. Tom's debut album was nominated for The Mercury Prize, a Brit Award, and Q Magazine Award....
Carla Denyer
Carla is co-leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, elected along with Adrian Ramsay in October 2021. Carla is the Green Party's MP for Bristol Central and was one of four Green MPs...
Flo + The Escape Lane Trio
Flo + The Escape Lane Trio are a Bristol-based group, playing semi-acoustic versions of Flo's indie-folk-rock songs, lyrical story-telling against a backdrop of artful piano and ambient lead guitar.
Laura Laker
Laura Laker is a freelance journalist with more than a decade's experience covering cycling, walking and wheeling (and other means of transport). Beginning her career with a cycling website called...
Grace Will Lead Me Home
Grace Will Lead Me Home tells the story of two men whose lives followed astonishingly similar paths, but whose experiences were astoundingly different. Both were eleven when home-life ended. Both...
Lyndsay Rush
Lyndsay Rush is a comedy writer, cofounder of the branding agency Obedient, and the poet behind the Instagram sensation, @maryoliversdrunkcousin. Her debut book of poems, A BIT MUCH was an Instant...
Jo Musker-Sherwood
Jo has experienced multiple burnouts throughout her adult life both as an activist, and as a human who feels things deeply. After a decade of campaigning for change, both from within and outside of...
Maria Ferguson
Maria Ferguson is a writer and performer. Her poetry has been widely anthologised and published in literary magazines such as Magma, The Rialto, The North and The Poetry Review. She was a finalist of...
Beth Allison Barr
Beth Allison Barr (PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) is James Vardaman Endowed Chair of History at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, where she specializes in medieval history,...
Some things old. Lots of things new.
Our Creative Director Paul gives us a whistle-stop round-up to the latest May bookings for this year's Greenbelt Festival. Some favourites. Some newbies. Some surprises. All adding to the richness...
Stewart Home
Stewart Home was born and lives in London (UK). He has been working as an artist and writer since the early 1980s and had a mid-career retrospective at White Columns in New York in 2011. He is the...
Virginia’s Wolves
Virginia's Wolves are a fierce female punk band born out of Leicester's Unglamorous music project in 2022. With raw energy and unapologetic honesty, the band quickly carved out their place in the...
Twat Union
Theatrical-feminist-punk-pop 6 piece Twat Union are known for their wild, immersive gigs and trademark provocative humour. Part punk gig, part comedy show, the twats don't shy away from topics...
Them There Cowboys
Them There Cowboys bring you something the likes of which you ain't never seen or heard before; call us cowpunk, call us folk, call us country, or call us queer, all you need to know is we will have...