Prescot Prepares for Festival Season

Prescot Prepares for Festival Season

Festival season is about to descend on Prescot, with a lineup of culture and entertainment culminating in the 10-day Prescot Festival of Music & the Arts.

Now in its 14th year, the festival makes an array of events—from art and poetry to jazz and classical music—accessible to everyone at affordable prices. This year’s programme opens on Friday 15 June with a journey through the history of swing with Swingshift Big Band.

But before then, the historic market town will step back in time with the Elizabethan Fayre on Saturday 2 June. Fun, food and live entertainment for all ages take place in the town centre between 11am and 4pm, with Pop-up Shakespeare, courtesy of MATE Productions, at 3pm.

The following week sees pirates invade Prescot, as Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver, Captain Flint and friends launch a swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, in MATE Productions’ imaginative staging of Treasure Island in Prescot’s Woodland Theatre.

Then the month of culture ends with 10 days of arts and music, courtesy of the Prescot Festival from Friday 15 to Sunday 24 June.

Taking place mostly in and around the 17th-century Prescot Parish Church, the Prescot Festival this year features such quality acts as Wingates Brass Band, musical theatre company BOST and Maghull Wind Orchestra, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year.

Tickets for all festival events are now on sale at Poco Coffee (30 Eccleston Street, Prescot, L34 5QJ) or online at www.prescotfestival.co.uk, where you can find out more about everything happening in Prescot this June.