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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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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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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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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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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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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