Prescot Festival

@TownPrescot Our pleasure!

Thank you to @prescotfest for organising the Mayor of Prescot's Charity Christmas Concert which raised £325. 👏👏👏👏

The next Friends of the Festival meeting is on Tuesday 3rd September at 7.15pm in Prescot Parish Centre. All are welcome to hear news and share views!

Not long until our next event - Prescot Parish Musicians in concert; Friday 20th September, 7pm. Tickets £6 on the door (cash please) to include wine/juice & nibbles.

Save the date: Next year’s 21st Prescot Festival - 20-29 June 2025

Advance notice: Mayor of Prescot’s Charity Christmas Concert, Thur 5 Dec, 7pm, free, Prescot Parish Church 🧑🏼‍🎄

TOMORROW we’re showing the 1981 film Chariots of Fire, with a location in ... BIRKENHEAD! (Woodside Ferry Terminal=Dover!): Tuesday 25 June, 7pm (£6, incl. choc ice!), St. Paul’s Church, Bryer Road, Prescot, L35 5DN

Tomorrow we look forward to a very special 1-hour outdoor performance of opera highlights; 2pm, £12, at @ShakespeareNP's ‘Sir Ken Dodd Performance Garden’. There will be availability on the door, and the weather forecast is sublime! Bring a cushion, a hat and your suncream!

Prescot RC Church was full tonight for an excellent 20th Prescot Festival performance by Liverpool Bach Collective, in J.S. Bach’s Cantata No. 29. ~600 people have attended our 1st 3 nights already, with literally 1000s in the blazing sunshine at Prescot Carnival this afternoon!

We're here and looking forward to seeing you all too at today's Prescot Carnival as part of the 20th Prescot Festival! 12-4 in Browns Field, free entry.

Fantastic opening night to the 20th Prescot Festival, with South Liverpool Orchestra in excellent form & 230 people in the Parish Church. Tonight we have the 100-strong Prescot Festival Chorus in Faure’s sublime Requiem, followed by choral classics from Liverpool Cathedral Choir

**The Festival begins tomorrow (21/06/24)!** Online sales for each event end 24 hours before the start time. However, remaining🎟️will be available to purchase on the door so if you're still deciding which events to attend fear not! prescotfestival.co.uk has all the info 😍

@ShakespeareNP I spy with my little eye, "Afternoon Opera: solos & soliloquies", an event as part of the 20th Annual Prescot Festival with the amazing #soprano Laura Hudson, #pianist Jonathan Ellis & #actor Trevor Fleming. See you there!

Performance Garden Season has officially begun! 🎭 The Sir Ken Dodd Performance Garden is ready to welcome you come rain or shine 🌞 Check out all of the incredible shows on offer! 👇 facebook.com/share/p/LLFzmS…

@damianjokeeffe @operahollandpk @ShakespeareNP The Prescot Festival Chorus will be conducted by Ian Wells and accompanied by Peter Kwater. @LivCathChoir sing a selection of beautiful classics in the 2nd half under the direction of Stephen Mannings and accompanied by Prof Dr Ian Tracey!

Our soloists are @damianjokeeffe and Laura Hudson. Laura's in London rehearsing with @operahollandpk currently but will be back for Saturday (& Monday @ShakespeareNP for Afternoon Opera!) 🙂

Wow! Over 100 singers have now registered in advance to be part of the Prescot Festival Chorus 😃. They'll be singing Faure's Requiem and Artistic Director/Festival Founder Robert Howard's Ave Maria on Saturday (22/6) at 7pm in Prescot Parish Church. More SATB singers welcome!

Quiz question for you today! How many years has @ShottonMusic been conductor of @MaghullWindOrch? Come & hear the group (& maybe the answer) 2 weeks today at the finale to the 20th Prescot Festival. 6pm, Sunday 30th June, Prescot Parish Church. Tickets £6.

ONE WEEK TO GO until the opening night of the 20th Prescot Festival with South Liverpool Orchestra under the direction of the Festival's Artistic Director, Dr Robert Howard. Concert begins at 7.30pm in Prescot Parish Church. Tickets just £6 & include a glass of wine/juice & 🎂!

@KnowsleyCouncil @ShakespeareNP Congratulations!

The Council and @ShakespeareNP has scooped the Public / Private Partnership award at tonight’s #LGCAwards for the great partnership work which has brought the iconic playhouse to #Prescot. Well done!

This looks amazing - thank you so much for being part of the 20th Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts and many, many previous ones!

P.S. We obviously don't advocate smoking, and definitely not whilst sat at the piano😂

Vangelis - Chariots Of Fire youtu.be/8a-HfNE3EIo?si… via @YouTube. Such an iconic soundtrack! Come & see the full film as part of this year's 20th Prescot Festival. Tuesday 25th June, 7pm, St Paul's Church, Bryer Road, Prescot. Tickets £6 & include an🍦in the interval😀