The Prescot Festival is celebrating another successful year, with 1,600 through the doors for 10 days of arts and music. To mark 100 years since the end of World War One, the festival aimed to secure 100 singers for a performance of Fauré’s...
Read morePress release: Swinging Start to Prescot Festival
A trio of musical talent from across the North West will dominate the closing weekend of this year’s Prescot Festival. The 10-day arts festival opened last weekend, with over 500 music lovers packing into Prescot’s Jacobean parish church for a...
Read morePress Release: Prescot Festival Set to Swing on Opening Night
The Prescot Festival will get toes tapping as it takes audiences through a history of swing music next week. Swingshift Big Band (pictured), already a firm favourite with Prescot audiences, are the special guests on the opening night of the...
Read morePress Release: Prescot Prepares for Festival Season
Festival season is about to descend on Prescot, with a lineup of culture and entertainment culminating in the 10-day Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts. Now in its 14th year, the festival makes an array of events—from art and poetry to jazz...
Read morePress release: Prescot Festival Box Office Now Live
Tickets for 10 days of arts and music in the historic town of Prescot go on sale today, Tuesday 1 May. Audiences can look forward to songs from the shows, a journey through the history of swing and a special screening of Willy Russell’s Educating...
Read morePress release: 100 Singers to Mark 100 Years since End of World War One
More than 100 singers are expected to join the Prescot Festival Chorus to commemorate the centenary of the end of World War One this June. The ‘Come & Sing’ choir gathers on Saturday 16 June to perform Gabriel Fauré’s stirring Requiem under...
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