Six months today, they will be welcoming 20,000 people to Cheltenham Racecourse for Greenbelt 2012: Saving Paradise. And they have just announced the first tranche of acts and speakers that will be gracing the Greenbelt stages over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

We've got folk collective Bellowhead, Greenbelt favourite Bruce Cockburn, Mercury Music Prize winner Speech Debelle, plus Seth Lakeman, The Imagined Village, Megson, Thomas Truax and Franz Nicolay also on the Music bill.

In Talks and Panels, we have Professor Mary Grey, editor of New Humanist Magazine Caspar Melville, Giles Fraser, Rose Hudson Wilkin, Ruth Gledhill, Richard Coles, Shane Claiborne and more.

Accomadation

We're looking to see if our festivalgoers would be interested in basic self-catering accommodation near the Racecourse for fixed stays of three to four nights over the festival weekend click here for info 

Greenbelt 2012 Weekend Tickets                    price until 30 April

 Adult Weekend Ticket                                 £99.00

Adult Concession Weekend Ticket                  £68.00

Under 18 Weekend Ticket (5 to 17 years)        £55.00

Family Weekend Ticket (2 Adults, 2 Under 18s)     £259.00

Single Parent Family Weekend Ticket (1 Adult, 2 Under 18s)       £165.00

Infant Weekend Ticket (0 to 4 years)      £0.00

Tickets avaliable HERE