After 13 years, a Merseyside arts festival has proved it can still pull in big crowds. The Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts drew an impressive 1,600 visitors between 16 and 25 June, with a programme that starred the Chilled Lemons Jazz Quintet, Leyland Band—Lancashire’s number one-ranking brass band—and the Band of the Yorkshire…
20Jun
Press release: Prescot Festival prepares for grand finale
Almost 500 people came through the oak doors of Prescot’s Jacobean parish church for the opening weekend of the town’s annual festival. Lancashire’s number-one ranking brass band, Leyland Band, initiated the proceedings on Friday night, receiving a standing ovation after their encore of Strauss’s Radetzky March. On Saturday, a magnificent performance by the Prescot Festival…
12Jun
Press Release: Award Win for Arts Festival in 13th Year
Arts in Prescot is celebrating an award win on the eve of its 13th annual festival. Prescot Town Council made the Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts the proud recipient of the first ever Prescot Community Group of the Year award. The 10-day programme opens on Friday 16 June with Lancashire’s number one-ranked brass…
01Jun
Press Release: Festival Season Arrives in Prescot
A month of culture and entertainment is on offer in the historic market town of Prescot this June. The Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts runs from Friday 16 to Sunday 25 June, but a packed month of cultural events kicks off on Saturday 3 June with the town’s Elizabethan Fayre. Celebrating Prescot’s historical…
03May
Prescot Festival Ushers in New Generation of Talent
The Prescot Festival will showcase young, rising musical and artistic talent in June this year. Primary and secondary school children from across the borough of Knowsley will once again perform live in pursuit of the title of Young Instrumentalist of Prescot during this year’s 10-day programme. Sonny Fielding, a former St Edmund Arrowsmith student from…