The catering team at St Paul’s Church outdid themselves last night with a delicious hot pot supper. Liverpool folk band The Travelling People provided the music for the barn dance, and the crowds loved it — despite their exhaustion by...
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We were proud to welcome the Bentley Operatic Society to the festival last night, in the year they celebrate an entire century of performing the works of those two giants of Victorian musical theatre, WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan. Selections...
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Festival-goers were in for an impressive display of musicianship at last night’s Prescot Festival events. First up was the first annual Young Instrumentalist of Prescot competition, hosted by Evelyn Community Primary School. Nine talented...
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With last night’s screening of The Queen, we reached the halfway point of the Eighth Annual Prescot Festival of Music and the Arts. Audiences at the Salvation Army enjoyed Dame Helen Mirren’s Oscar- and BAFTA-winning performance as...
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We’ve always strived to get local schools involved in the annual Prescot Festival, and one of the highlights of their involvement has been the Schools Verse-Speaking Festival at St Mary and St Paul’s Primary School. In verse-speaking...
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Richard Lea, of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King, Liverpool. performed a most intriguing programme of organ music in the Parish Church for Day 3 of the Festival, yesterday. Well-known classics such as Bach’s Toccata in Fugue in...
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