Penguin Cafe
Penguin Cafe was founded by Arthur Jeffes in 2009, bringing together a talented and disparate group of musicians initially to perform his father Simon Jeffes' legacy of world-renowned Penguin Cafe...
Omar Barghouti
Omar Barghouti is a Palestinian human rights defender and a co-founder of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement for Palestinian rights. He is a co-recipient of the 2017...
Neal Jolly
Neal has been leading singing sessions in Cornwall for 8 years. His style is influenced by membership of the NVN (Natural Voice Network) and tends to be based in short form songs, rounds and chants...
Old Plough Folk Club
Nicky and Nigel Coates tell us there's scientific evidence that singing and playing together is good for you, but we don't need science to tell us that. The Old Plough is a safe and welcoming...
No Direction Home
No Direction Home is a pioneering project produced by Counterpoints Arts featuring stand-up comedians from refugee and migrant backgrounds. Since 2018 they have performed gigs around the country,...
Naomi Kelly
Naomi Kelly is a singer-songwriter with their roots firmly in Greenbelt soil. They've been attending the festival since they were a year and a half old, and they're thrilled to be performing at...
Musson+Retallick with Migration
M+R work internationally to create large scale site-specific artwork. Their projects have been reviewed as ‘groundbreaking' by the Arts Council and received high profile critical acclaim...
Nick Lowles
Nick Lowles has spent a lifetime fighting racism, fascism and extremism – first with the antifascist magazine Searchlight and then with HOPE not hate, the organisation he founded back in 2004 in...
Malak Mattar
Malak Mattar was born in 1999 in the Gaza Strip and grew up under occupation and the military siege. From a family of talented cultural practitioners, Mattar started making art as a teenager during a...
Lizzy Hardingham
Lizzy Hardingham is a highly respected English folk singer-songwriter, celebrated for her emotive vocals, instrumental versatility, and thoughtful thematic work—spanning tradition, identity,...
Martin Shaw
Dr. Martin Shaw is a writer, mythographer, and Christian thinker, and the author of 18 books. He holds a visiting position at the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge University and is a fellow of the...
Lamma Mansour
Lamma Mansour is a Christian Palestinian from Nazareth, a writer and speaker exploring the intersections of faith, justice, and imagination. Her work is shaped by questions of how hope, beauty, and...
Miranda Threlfall-Holmes
Miranda Threlfall-Holmes is a priest, writer and change-maker from the north of England. She has worked in parishes and as a university chaplain for over twenty years, and is now Archdeacon of...
Lucy Winkett
Lucy Winkett is Rector of St James's Piccadilly, and Priest in Charge of St Pancras Euston Road, a writer, broadcaster and musician. One of the first generation of women to be ordained priest in...
Lorna Aindow
Lorna is a visually impaired artist who loves explosions of colour and abstract pattern. She uses a variety of different techniques and surfaces to develop her artwork, from Geli plates and screen...