The 21st Annual Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts takes place from Friday 20 to Sunday 29 June 2025 in the historic Lancashire town of Prescot, Merseyside.
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Friday 20 June
7.30pm
Opening Night: Wingates Brass Band
Prescot Parish Church – £8 (under-16s free if accompanied an adult)
Back by popular demand, the wonderful Wingates Band took the Festival by storm last year. This stirring all-new programme of brass classics will celebrate the festival’s 21st anniversary. Birthday cake will be served in the interval.
Saturday 21 June
7.30pm
A Night at the Musicals
Prescot Methodist Centre – £6
This brand-new show features local professional vocalists Annamarie Newton and David Lee, with live piano accompaniment. The evening promises a cornucopia of hit songs from classic
Hollywood, Broadway, West End productions, and more!
Sunday 22 June
12.00 noon-4.00pm
Prescot Carnival
Brown’s Field – Free
Prescot Town Council present their annual afternoon of stalls, games, food, fairground rides, live entertainment and more for all ages.
6.30pm
Liverpool Bach Collective
Prescot Parish Church – Free
This fine baroque ensemble end their season with a cantata of general praise, with choir, soloists, organ and instrumentalists, following a traditional service of Choral Evensong.
Monday 23 June
6.00pm
Primary Schools’ Choir Festival
Prescot Parish Church – Free
Join us in celebrating an array of choral talent from local primary schools with this fifth annual choir festival.
Tuesday 24 June
7.00pm
Film: Our Day Out (1977)
St Paul’s Church – £6
By popular request we present a festival screening of the comical yet moving film Our Day Out, by Whiston-born playwright Willy Russell. A BBC ‘Play for Today’, it now approaches 50 years since its creation. Complimentary choc ices will be served in the interval. Suitable for ages 11+.
Wednesday 25 June
9.30am
Young Instrumentalist Celebration
Evelyn Community Primary School – free
Specially selected local children of all ages showcase their musical skills. All are welcome to attend.
2pm
Afternoon Opera: Solos & Soliloquies
Shakespeare North Playhouse: Garden – £12 (available directly from Shakespeare North)
Following last year’s success, soprano Laura Hudson returns in a new recital of exquisite Shakespearean opera and poetry, with actor and Shakespeare North producer Lane Paul Stewart, and pianist.
7.30pm
Play: Two Steps Back
Shakespeare North Playhouse: Studio – £12 (available directly from Shakespeare North)
Emily Parr premieres her new one-act tragicomedy about the struggle to adjust to student life, a prequel
to last year’s festival triumph No Coward Soul.
Thursday 26 June
7.00pm
Barn Dance
St Paul’s Church – £6
Whether you love to dance or prefer to sit, listen and watch, you’re invited to join four-piece band Two Left Feet for a traditional community barn dance, with caller. Feel free to bring your own food and drink.
Friday 27 June
7.30pm
Dr Jazz & the Cheshire Cats
Our Lady & St Joseph’s Catholic Church – £8 (under-16s free if accompanied by an adult)
The Lymm- based jazz band, including vocalists, are back in town for the fourth time, promising an evening of sensational swing. Enjoy a decadent cupcake in the interval, courtesy of Prescot’s Albion Bakehouse (included in ticket price).
Saturday 28 June
11.30am
Talk: Ken Pye’s History & Architecture of Knowsley Hall
Prescot Parish Centre – £4
The popular author and historian returns to Prescot to entertain and inform with more fascinating stories of the area’s illustrious past.
7.00pm
Choral Classics: From Despair to Hope
Prescot Parish Church – £6
A performance of Mozart’s moving Requiem by the 100-strong Prescot Festival Chorus, followed by a first
Festival visit from Hope Street Consort in a second half of jubilant choral masterpieces. Choral singers – click here to ‘Come & Sing’ the Requiem.
Sunday 29 June
6.00pm
Festival Finale with Phoenix Concert Orchestra
Prescot Parish Church – £8 (under-16s free if accompanied by an adult)
A special 25th anniversary celebration of this local community light music orchestra, presenting a selection of much-loved melodies from stage, screen and the concert hall, conducted by Festival
Director Dr Robert Howard.
PLUS:
- Schools’ Artwork in Prescot Parish Church during events
- Prescot Museum & Library—Monday-Friday 10am-5pm, Saturdays 10am-1pm
Post-Festival Concert:
6pm Thursday 3 July at Prescot Parish Church FREE ENTRY
An Evening of Sacred & Secular Music with the Choir of St Peter’s College, University of Oxford – part of their Merseyside tour