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Press Release: Brass, Brezhnev and the Bard lined up for this year’s Prescot Festival
28 April, 2023 by Prescot Festival
Press Release: Brass, Brezhnev and the Bard lined up for this year’s Prescot Festival

A world-ranking brass band, a celebrated cathedral choir and a screening of a classic Scouse drama are among the highlights of a Merseyside arts festival this June. Regional no. 3-ranking Leyland Brass Band opens the 10-day Prescot Festival...

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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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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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Press Release: Arts Festival Invites Local People to Play a Role
17 May, 2022 by Prescot Festival
Press Release: Arts Festival Invites Local People to Play a Role

A Merseyside arts festival is eager to put local people centre-stage this year. The 10-day Prescot Festival, now in its 18th year, invites sopranos, altos, tenors and basses from across the region to ‘Come and Sing’ highlights from perhaps the...

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Press release: Merseyside Arts Festival Needs Your Talent
30 April, 2021 by Prescot Festival
Press release: Merseyside Arts Festival Needs Your Talent

The Prescot Festival will return this June with plans to get you involved in its 10-day programme of arts, music and culture. The seventeenth annual festival features a mixture of online and offline activities between Friday 18 and Sunday 27...

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Other-worldly Story Takes Prescot Festival Prize
8 July, 2020 by Prescot Festival
Other-worldly Story Takes Prescot Festival Prize

The tale of a boy’s dreams underneath a magical night sky has won the 2020 Prescot Festival Short Story Competition. Rita Simpson, from Huyton, received £100 and publication on prescotfestival.co.uk for the bittersweet fantasy ‘When You Wish upon...

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