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...
Read more2022 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.
Read morePress 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...
Read more2022 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...
Read more1 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...
Read moreMore 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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