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Prescot Festival up for Echo Award
12 August, 2022 by Prescot Festival
Prescot Festival up for Echo Award

We’re excited to announce that the Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts has been shortlisted in the Arts & Performance category at this year’s Echo Awards. We’re up against street artist John Culshaw and printmaker and...

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2022 Prescot Festival in Photos
4 July, 2022 by Prescot Festival
2022 Prescot Festival in Photos

Thank-you to Alan Humphreys and Colin Edwards for documenting the 18th Annual Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts in photos.

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Press release: Triumphant return to live programme for Prescot Festival
28 June, 2022 by Prescot Festival
Press release: Triumphant return to live programme for Prescot Festival

Seventeen hundred people flocked to concerts at the first fully live Prescot Festival in three years, equalling 2019’s record attendance. Taking place mostly in and around the historic church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin—Knowsley’s only Grade I...

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2022 Short Story Winner: Every Latent Foe
27 June, 2022 by Prescot Festival
2022 Short Story Winner: Every Latent Foe

At this year’s Festival Finale, we were pleased to announce that the winner of the 2022 Prescot Festival Short Story Competition was Dave Loftus, for the entertainingly eccentric, smartly crafted comic tale Every Latent Foe. A third-time...

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1 July: Choir of St Peter’s College Oxford
25 June, 2022 by Prescot Festival
1 July: Choir of St Peter’s College Oxford

We’ve enjoyed an immensely successful Prescot Festival this year, but the music doesn’t stop yet! The Choir of St Peter’s College, Oxford, will be visiting Prescot as part of their Merseyside tour. Following engagements at both...

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More to come before curtains come down on 18th Prescot Festival
22 June, 2022 by Prescot Festival
More to come before curtains come down on 18th Prescot Festival

The Prescot Festival began its first fully live programme in three years last weekend, and it promises more to come before Sunday’s orchestral finale. The tremendously popular Dr Jazz and the Cheshire Cats made a return visit for Friday’s opening...

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