2008 Prescot Festival

The 4th Annual Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts ran from Friday 20 to Sunday 29 June 2008.

Archive of Prescot Festival page:

2008 Prescot Festival Programme
(Updated 22 April 2008, subject to minor changes)

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Fri 20 June

 

7pm

 

Prescot Parish Church

 

Opening Night: West Lancashire Big Band
A winning mixture of jazz, popular standards, movie and theatre hits opens this year’s Festival

Sat 21 June

 

11am

 

Prescot Methodist Centre

 

Elizabethan Prescot: A talk by Rosemary Tyler
7pm

 

Prescot Parish Church

 

Come & Sing! Vivaldi’s Gloria
8.15pm

 

Dave Nicholas – Liverpool’s number one old-time cinema organist
Sun 22 June

 

4pm

 

Prescot Parish Church

 

Contemporary Music Concert featuring COMA North West & guests

6.30pm

 

Zion Independent Methodist Church

Taize: An ecumenical service of worship based around the music and prayers of the Taize Christianity community, in France

Mon 23 June

 

6.30pm

 

St Mary & St Paul’s Primary School

St Mary & St Paul’s Verse-Speaking Festival featuring primary schoolchildren from across Prescot

8pm

 

St Paul’s Church

 

Dance Show with the Zodiac Morris Dancers and Prescot School of Dancing
Tue 24 June

 

7pm

 

Prescot Suite, Prescot Leisure Centre
Film: The Sound of Music – Singalong

 

Wed 25 June

7.30pm

Prescot Methodist Centre

Prescot’s Got Talent!

Thu 26 June

2 – 4pm

Prescot Museum

Prescot Historic Society Open Afternoon

7.30pm

 

Prescot Methodist Centre

 

Birkenhead Operatic Society: Songs & Scenes from the Shows

 

Fri 27 June

 

7.30pm

 

Our Lady & St Joseph’s RC Church

 

St Helens Sinfonietta play Mozart, Haydn, Schubert & Rossini

 

Sat 28 June

 

2 – 5pm

 

Prescot Methodist Centre

 

Tea Dance with Northern All Stars Dance Orchestra
7pm

 

Prescot Methodist Church
Recital: Korean pianist Young Choon Park

 

9.30pm

 

Prescot Parish Church

 

Singer-songwriter John Smith
Sun 29 June

 

6pm

 

Prescot Parish Church

 

Choral Evensong (Prescot Parish Church Choir)
7.30pm

 

Festival Finale: Fairey Band with guest soprano Laura Hudson

PLUS…
 Friday – Saturday & Tuesday – Saturday, 9.30 to 11.30am, Prescot Methodist Centre, Coffee Morning & Festival Open House – drop in for a cuppa & a catch-up with the latest Festival newsMonday – Friday, 11am to 2pm, Prescot Parish Church, Church Tours & Art Exhibition, featuring works byEccleston Park Art Group, Prescotia Watercolours & various Prescot schools