Sopranos, altos, tenors and basses are once again invited to join the Prescot Festival Chorus for a ‘Come & Sing’ concert. This year’s choice of repertoire is: John Rutter, Magnificat (Oxford University Press edition) Hubert Parry, I Was Glad (Novello edition) Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral’s James Luxton conducts, and St Bartholomew’s Rainhill’s Peter Kwater is again at the organ….
14Feb
2017 Short Story Competition Now Open
Do you love to tell a good story? Are you imaginative? Do you have the urge to put pen to paper? The Prescot Festival Short Story Competition is back, and this year, the theme is Clocking Off. The writer of the winning short story is set to gain a cheque for £100. To help and…
31Dec
Rodgers & Hammerstein Festival Fundraiser for March 2017
Bentley Operatic Society are back in town on Friday 10 March for a Prescot Festival fundraiser. The popular musical theatre society perform songs from the shows of Rodgers and Hammerstein – the legendary Broadway duo behind South Pacific, The Sound of Music and more – at 7pm in Prescot Parish Meeting Room. They return by popular demand, following…
15Dec
Christmas Concert Sees Record Turnout, Record Funds Raised
Last week’s Christmas Concert had the event’s biggest audience yet, with 420 people packed in to Prescot Parish Church. The occasion, organised annually by the Prescot Festival, raised £1,112.40 for the Mayor of Prescot’s Charity. Brassworks Quintet headlined the event, with St Mary & St Paul’s School Choir, Prescot Parish Church Choir, Knowsley Ladies’ Choir…
30Nov
Christmas 2016 in Prescot
As has become an annual tradition, the key event of Prescot Festival’s own festive programme this year is the Mayor of Prescot’s Charity Christmas Concert. This jubilant evening of favourite holiday tunes and carols takes place on Thursday 8 December at 7pm in Prescot Parish Church. Tickets are just £5 on the door, and children are free (under 16, accompanied…