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A (very*) brief history of Greenbelt Festival.
🏕️ 1974: Greenbelt, an evangelical (mostly music) festival was founded in Suffolk, by a bunch of restless creatives in the fields at Prospect Farm. The Sun newspaper billed the first festival as ‘The Nice People’s Pop Festival’.
✊🏽 1980s: Greenbelt broadened from being celebration of the arts into a festival of activism, too. Significant new voices heard at the festival included Nicaraguan minister Gustavo Parajon, South African anti-apartheid activist Caesar Molebatsi, and Elias Chacour, a Palestinian Melkite priest from Nazareth. The festival moved from Hertfordshire to Northamptonshire.
💾 1990s: As the evangelical musical subculture slowly dried up, the heart and mind of Greenbelt broadened and strengthened. artists and activists were invited not just because they were believers, but because their vision overlapped with one of global justice (Bob Geldof) or engaging with the political powers and environmental breakdown (Midnight Oil) or was simply fuelled by a divine sense of wonder (the Waterboys).
🕊 2000s: After a near-death experience, Greenbelt spent time at Cheltenham Racecourse – rebuilding, reshaping, and rediscovering. Propped up by our wonderful regular givers – called Greenbelt ‘Angels’ for good reason. The escalation of discrimination against Muslims in the wake of 9/11 emboldened Greenbelt to create a festival for everyone – where those of all faiths and none were welcome.
📢 2010s: Greenbelt ‘Travelled Light’ to its current home, Boughton House, back in Northamptonshire. With an ever-expanding vision and ambition to be a festival of artistry, activism and belief, it welcomed the likes of Pussy Riot, Russell Brand, Brass Against, Jack Monroe, and amazing Negrito – among many, many others.
⭐️ 2020s: Join us this August bank holiday weekend for the first festival of a new decade and to be part of Greenbelt’s next chapter.
* very, very, very, very, very. Every history is always partial. We will have undoubtedly left out huge swathes of the Greenbelt story in this social post. But we hope it gives you a hint, a flavour at least.
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26–29 August 2022, Boughton House
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That was a good year…