More than 100 singers are expected to join the Prescot Festival Chorus to commemorate the centenary of the end of World War One this June. The ‘Come & Sing’ choir gathers on Saturday 16 June to perform Gabriel Fauré’s stirring Requiem under conductor James Luxton, of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. The 19th-century choral composition is a…
21Mar
Thank You, Bentley, Volunteers & Audience!
Our thanks to Bentley Operatic Society, the Friends of the Festival and our appreciative audience for last week’s successful fundraiser. We sat down to a delicious Cottom’s hot pot – confession time – some of us had seconds, and even thirds! – before enjoying an evening of Songs from the Shows with our Bentley friends…
21Mar
Press release: A Treat for Movie Buffs at the 2018 Prescot Festival
A Merseyside arts festival will pay tribute to a late film director and a living local playwright later this year. Educating Rita, based on the comedy drama by Whiston-born Willy Russell, screens as part of the 14th Annual Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts on Thursday 21 June. The 1983 film stars Julie Walters…