It is Day 10 of our festival, and once again we invite you to join the congregation of Prescot Parish Church for their Sung Eucharist. It starts at 10am, and if you haven’t booked a place, you are welcome to watch and take part online at...
Read moreDay 7: Music-making in Isolation
For well over a decade the Prescot Festival has had its own come-&-sing choir, with an average of 100 a year gathering to perform great choral works ranging from Handel’s Messiah and Faure’s Requiem to Jenkins’s The Armed...
Read moreDay 5: A Look ahead at the Shakespeare North Playhouse
Welcome to Day 5 of the Prescot Festival! Some 400 years ago Prescot was home to the first purpose-built theatre outside London, and just a stone’s throw away lived one of William Shakespeare’s wealthy patrons, the Earl of Derby...
Read moreDay 3: Come & Worship
It is Day 3 of the Prescot Festival, and today we invite you to worship with the congregation of St Mary the Blessed Virgin, Prescot. If you’ve haven’t already booked your place, you can participate online. The Sung Eucharist is...
Read moreDay 1: Prescot on Film, 1930s-2020s
Our thanks to Chris Graham, photographer David Hill, Philip Battle of Born & Raised in Prescot and Philip Ferguson Jones of thejonesboys for their contributions to this splendid video taking us through almost a century of Prescot history...
Read moreDay 1: Welcome to the Prescot Festival
It is Day 1 of the 17th Annual Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts, and we are delighted to open the proceedings with a video greeting from our artistic director, Dr Robert Howard. Below that is a specially penned letter of welcome from our...
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