The first Greenbelt Festival was held on a pig farm just outside the village of Charsfield near Woodbridge, Suffolk over the August 1974 bank holiday weekend, begun by Jim Palosaari, Kenneth Frampton, and James Holloway. While the venue has changed, the core event has remained the same: a celebration of faith, justice and arts with a particular Christian perspective.
Greenbelt is a nomadic festival which has so far been held at seven different locations in England. Greenbelt is also a Christian showcase for performing arts, visual arts and alternative worship. The festival was one of the main catalysts for the huge Jubilee 2000 movement. More recently with its links to the NGO Christian Aid, Greenbelt has become heavily involved in campaigns for trade justice. However, the festival also welcomes anyone who the organisers believe 'speaks for justice', and has recently had Anita Roddick, Peter Tatchell, Bill Drummond, and Billy Bragg sharing their thoughts. Greenbelt is also a venue for teaching and discussion about (but not exclusively within) the Christian faith, and has attracted number of Christian speakers, including Rowan Williams (the former archbishop of Canterbury) who is currently the festival's patron. This list encompasses The Alarm, U2, Moby, Pussy Riot, Cliff Richard, Bruce Cockburn, Ed Sheeran, Martyn Joseph, Steve Taylor, Daniel Amos, Phatfish, Servant, Midnight Oil, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Over the Rhine, Iona, Amy Grant, Miles Cain, Lamb, Kevin Max, Lambchop, Goldie, Jamelia, After the Fire, Larry Norman, Randy Stonehill, Asian Dub Foundation, The Polyphonic Spree, Aqualung, Dum Dums, The Proclaimers, Daniel Bedingfield, Eden Burning, Duke Special, Why?, Athlete, Sixpence None the Richer, The Choir, and Delirious?. Those that have played the festival in the past include both new and established musicians, mostly playing rock, folk and pop music. The festival regularly attracts the biggest names of Christian music and many mainstream musicians. Greenbelt has grown out of an evangelical Christian music festival with an audience of 1,500 young people into its current form, a more inclusive festival attended at its peak around 2010 by around 20,000, including Christians and those from other faiths. Greenbelt Festival is a festival of arts, faith and justice held annually in England since 1974.
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