Gordon Gano, Gungor, Beth Rowley for Greenbelt 2011
THE LINEUP of music acts for 2011's Greenbelt Festival, Dreams Of
Home, to be held at Cheltenham Racecourse from 26th to 29th August,
has now been announced. It is: Politically engaged rock and roots man
Billy Bragg, eccentric singer/songwriter Get Cape Wear Cape Fly,
mainstream melodic rock band Idlewild, gospel matriarch Mavis Staples,
critically acclaimed songsmith Ron Sexsmith, Mojo Folk Album Of The
year winners The Unthanks, roots reggae outfit Gentlemen's Dub Club,
Greenbelt favourite Martyn Joseph, Irish singer/songwriter Duke
Special, the band fronted by one-time Violent Femmes man Gordon Gano
& The Ryan Brothers, acclaimed folk singer Kate Rusby, acoustic
roots duo Show Of Hands, jazz alto saxophonist Soweto Kinch, folk
orientated songsmith Dizraeli And The Small Gods, renowned film maker
and musician Don Letts, Leicester-based singer/songwriter Grace
Petrie, Irish songsmith Iain Archer, Atlanta-based band Listener,
country flavoured rock band Ahab, Christian rock iconoclasts [dweeb],
hip-hop and soul act Extra Curricular, Manchester's urban evangelists
LZ7, American rock worship team Gungor, popular alternative rock band
from Leeds Hope And Social, Sheffield-based chorister-turned-folkster
Joe Rose, radical worship ensemble Rend Collective Experience,
American "dirty gospel" practitioner Rev Vince Anderson, British Asian
clarinettist Arun Ghosh, dance music MC Ad-Apt, folk and Afro beat
fusion outfit Adrian Roye And The Exiles, Swedish singer/songwriter
Andreas Sandlund, one-time Bodixa singer Anna Elias And The Forlorn
Hope, Northampton-based band Archives, modern music man and novelist
Atlum Schema, heavy metal outfit Back Pocket Prophet, seven-piece
indie folk group Band Of Hope, acclaimed singer/songwriter Beth
Rowley, veteran broadcaster Bob Harris, Edinburgh-based folk outfit
Chasing Owls, one-time thebandwithnoname member Chip Kendall,
Coventry's hardcore four-piece Conduit, British singer/songwriter
Edwina Hayes, Sheffield's soft rockers Eskimo Fires, Bath-based soft
rock group Fallen Tide, Filipino-British hard music outfit
Firefalldown, Hampshire-based outfit Flight Brigade, Swedish-born
soloist Foreign Slippers, modern gospel man Freddie Kofi, South
Georgia songsmith Gentry Morris, British pop singer Hannah Atkins,
travelling folksters Harry Bird & The Rubber Wellies, guitar
virtuoso Jason Carter, hip-hop and electro man Jax Walker, tru skool
veterans Judah & Secret, singer/songwriter Karen Grace, Yorkshire
MCs Knew Jeru'slum, one-time GK Real member Lanre, ska funk five-piece
Largo Embargo, pop folk singer Liam Blake, American singer/songwriter
Lobelia, Cheltenham-based rock band Loftbeat, pop singer/songwriter
Luke Leighfield, Liverpool-based pop rockers Major Major, punk
evangelists MaLoKai, Canadian singer Miriam Jones & The Red Sea,
Manchester-based R&B gospel singer Ni-Cola, rapper P.I.C.A.S.So
(Pursuing In Christ And Seeking Souls), traditional folk act Peter
& The Wolf, UK pop singer Philippa Hanna with rock band Empire
Nation, Philadelphia-based rock team Reilly, award-winning
singer/songwriter Rob Halligan, punk rap band Saving Strike, one-man
fuzzpop explosion Sleepy Vole, ska 10-piece SOS (Sounds Of Salvation),
Manchester-based alt indie band Spokes, zany acoustic hip-hop outfit
The Austin Frances Connection, folk group The Coopers, punk rockers
The Cut Ups, Cheltenham indie rock group The Dirty Tricks, Devon-based
family band The Jellicle Cats, female-fronted Somerset band The
Origin, acoustic four-piece The Ronaldos, alternative rock band The
Suspectors, rock band The Vapour Trails, Derby-based rockers Toxic
Federation and Scottish singer/songwriter Yvonne Lyon.