This list includes The Alarm, U2, Moby, Cliff Richard,[2] Ed Sheeran, Martyn Joseph, Steve Taylor,[3] Midnight Oil, Amy Grant,[4] Kevin Max, Lambchop, Goldie, Jamelia, After the Fire, The Proclaimers,[5] Daniel Bedingfield, Eden Burning, Duke Special, Athlete and Sixpence None the Richer.

However, the festival also welcomes anyone who the organisers believe 'speaks for justice', and has had Anita Roddick, Peter Tatchell, Bill Drummond, and Billy Bragg sharing their thoughts.

More recently with its links to the NGO Christian Aid,[8] Greenbelt has become heavily involved in campaigns for trade justice.

While the venue has changed, the core event has remained the same: a celebration of faith, justice and arts with a particular Christian perspective.

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.

Following a downturn in audience figures and rising production costs, Greenbelt faced up to the inevitable in 1998: it was no longer financially viable to continue using the Deene Park site.

Since the move the festival has been scaled back after a drop in numbers and possibly due to the related loss of finances.

Expecting to be turned off from the outset she mellowed to the point of admitting she became almost "quite tolerant of 'post-evangelism'" [sic] but finally finding that the evangelism "lurked" under the surface, she left.

[13] A Huffington Post report said, "How progressive politics, music and religion combine to make a festival where the loos are lovely and the people properly nice".