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Greenbelt Festival 2011 | ||
25th - 28th Aug 2011 Cheltenham Racecourse, Prestbury Park, Gloucestershire, GL50 4SH, United Kingdom |
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Billy Bragg heads up Mainstage, on Friday night headliner, with Idlewild doing the same job on Sunday night.
Also appearing are '80s alternative music legend Gordon Gano (Violent Femmes) with The Ryans, folk favourites Show of Hands and Kate Rusby, jazz-rap pioneer Soweto Kinch, festival friend Iain Archer, the always brilliant Martyn Joseph, pop-punk delights from [dweeb], worship and music from The Rend Collective, hip hop poetry from Dizraeli and the Small Gods (Glastonbury Emerging Talent finalists), and the remaining bastion of musical nobility Duke Special.
The talks programme is also filling up, with the Rob Bell, Brian McLaren, emerging church guru Phyllis Tickle, theologian and speaker Dr Anthony Reddie, Christian Aid's Loretta Minghella, Professor of Philosophical Theology at Jesus College, Cambridge Dr Janet Soskice, and Glyn Secker of Jews For Justice For Palestine.
Comedy is spearheaded by the brilliant Mark Thomas with his Extreme Rambling show about Palestine. There's also wit and wisdom from Paul Kerensa and musical comedy maverick Helen Arney.
There's also plenty to entice in the Performing Arts programme with the high-flying Ockham's Razor, and – direct from the Edinburgh Fringe – George Dillon with his production of The Gospel of Matthew.
Performances for children, youth and all-age include the return of PuppetCraft after their brilliant production of The Selfish Giant at Greenbelt 2010, and street-dance crew Flava, as seen on Britain's Got Talent, who will be performing and leading workshops.
The Festival Village will have a brand new look, including a bigger and better Big Top. There is a new Studio Theatre, which will house performances for children during the day, and smaller theatre pieces at night, and forms part of the new Children's programme, alongside an expanded Messy Space, a Children's film venue, and a new craft activity tent for kids.