The Prescot Festival proudly presents the winning entry in the 2013 Short Story Competition. Entrants – more than two dozen – were asked to write around the theme of war and peace. Winner Jim Finn receives £100, and “A Tragic...
Read moreThank You to Our Sponsors
Without the generosity of our sponsors, the Prescot Festival would cease to exist. Our heartfelt thanks goes out to the following businesses and community groups who provided finance and resources to support the 2013 Prescot Festival...
Read moreAnother Year, Another Fest
And so another 10 days disappear just as fast as they arrived. THANK YOU, audiences, performers, sponsors and volunteers – all who made the Ninth Annual Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts a success. We welcomed more than 1,300 people...
Read moreDay 10: Choral Evensong & Festival Finale
Where have 10 days gone? Saturday night’s audience left Brass & Buffet well-fed and well-entertained, after a concert by Prescot Festival newcomers Wirral Brass. The diverse programme featured tunes by Ron Goodwin, Arthur Sullivan (of...
Read moreDay 9: Prescot on Film, Brass & Buffet
There are no words to describe Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto, but we’ll give it a go: Passionate, majestic, wistful, nostalgic, yearning, haunting, elegant, resplendent. All those qualities shone through in Gethyn Jones’s...
Read moreDay 8: Elgar, Britten & Dvorak
St Paul’s Church was packed to the rafters last night for the Barn Dance & Dinner. Our caterers came all the way from Leicester, while the music was more local – the rustic sounds of Liverpool band The Travelling People...
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