The Prescot Festival went ahead with a hybrid of online and in-person arts and music this year—and an 18th festival is already in the works for 2022. Despite the pandemic, organisers were able to programme 10 days of events and activities...
Read moreDay 10: Farewell from the 17th Prescot Festival
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 9: Short Story Competition Winner
Earlier this year we asked you to submit short stories inspired by the following quote from William Shakespeare: “We know what we are, but not what we may be.” (Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5) Our panel of judges enjoyed this year’s...
Read moreDay 9: A Prescot Prayer Journey
It is Day 9 of the Prescot Festival, and we are delighted to share with you a spiritual resource created by the Reverend Kim Mannings earlier in 2021 for Prescot Parish Church, as part of Thy Kingdom Come, an 11-day international prayer...
Read moreDay 8: Liverpool Cathedral Festival of Music
Welcome to Day 8 of the Prescot Festival. Today we are excited to bring you music from gifted young instrumentalists all over Merseyside. The performances (scroll down to watch) were recorded for the Liverpool Cathedral Festival of Music, earlier...
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...
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