Duke Special leads first names for Greenbelt Festival

Pascuala Ilabaca, King Porter Stomp, Worry Dolls, Bert Miller, and Tibetan monks

By Scott Williams | Published: Mon 16th Feb 2015

Greenbelt Festival 2015

Friday 28th to Monday 31st August 2015
Boughton House, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN14 1BJ, England MAP
£145 for adult weekend tickets

Daily capacity: 22,000

Duke Special, with a festival exclusive performance of his Under The Dark Cloth show, leads the first taster of acts and guests announced for Greenbelt Festival which will take place once again in the grounds of Boughton House, near Kettering in Northamptonshire.

Also confirmed are Pascuala Ilabaca, King Porter Stomp, Worry Dolls, Bert Miller and the Animal Folk, Ciaran Lavery, Tom Butler, and The Monks from Tashi Lhunpo Monastery.

The all-age inclusive friendly arts festival with its roots in the Christian faith which offers a host of world music, international and home-grown acts is themed The Bright Field and takes place on the bank holiday weekend from Friday 28th to Monday 31st August 2015.

The early taster also includes the first names for the Ideas and Literature part of the festival with guests including Paula Gooder on Theology, Madeleine Bunting on Mindfulness, Joanna Jepson on Fashion, Giles Fraser on Ethics, Patience Agbabi on Poetry, Marika Rose on Cyborgs, Abdul Rehman-Malik on Faith, Bidisha on Immigration, Kate Bottley on Telly, Carys Bray on Fiction, plus more to be announced over the coming weeks and a wide range of worship, visual arts, family and children and youth programming.

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Early bird ticket prices are currently as follows Adult - £135; Concessions £95; and under 18s festival ticket (aged 5-17 years) is priced at £50. Infants aged 0-4 years can attend for free but still need a ticket.

All weekend tickets cover free camping.

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