BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.3//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:27@cultureknowsley.co.uk DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20240621 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20240701 DTSTAMP:20240501T085034Z URL:https://www.cultureknowsley.co.uk/events/20th-anniversary-celebrations -for-the-prescot-festival/ SUMMARY:Prescot Festival of Music and the Arts DESCRIPTION:A top-ranking brass band\, a celebrated cathedral choir and a s creening of a classic British film are among the highlights of the Prescot arts festival this June.\n\nSouth Liverpool Orchestra will open the 10-da y Prescot Festival programme in style on Friday 21 June\, with the world-r enowned Liverpool Cathedral Choir performing the following day.\n\nThe wee k continues with events that include a screening of the 1981 film Chariots of Fire\, featuring a host of local locations\, and award-winning Wingate s Brass Band will perform on Friday 28 June\, in their 150th year.\n\nTo m ark the second birthday of the Shakespeare North Playhouse\, the festival presents an afternoon of opera highlights on in the Sir Ken Dodd Performan ce Garden\, and the one-woman one-act play No Coward Soul from Emily Parr in the Studio Theatre. Festival proceedings come to a close with an eagerl y awaited return appearance from Maghull Wind Orchestra in a Last Night of the Proms-style finale on Sunday 30 June.\n\nLiverpool Bach Collective\, ceilidh band Two Left Feet\, and Wirral-based musical theatre company BOST are all on this year’s lineup\, along with musical showcases for the ch oral and instrumental talents of local primary school students.\n\nFestiva l-goers also have the opportunity to play a part themselves\, by joining a Come-&\;-Sing choir for a performance of Faure’s Requiem on 22 June \, competing in the 2024 Prescot Festival Short Story Competition\, or by joining in the barn dance on 27 June.\nBuy Tickets\nThe 20th Annual Presco t Festival of Music &\; the Arts runs from Friday 21 to Sunday 30 June. You can buy tickets from Poco Bar &\; Cafe at 30 Eccleston Street\, L3 4 5QJ (cash only) or online at prescotfestival.co.uk.\n\nTickets for Shak espeare North Playhouse events are available exclusively from the theatre itself\, in person or online at shakespearenorthplayhouse.co.uk.\n\nPhoto : Birkenhead Operatic Society Trust (BOST) at the 2023 Prescot Festival (c redit: Alan Humphreys) ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.cultureknowsley.co.uk/wp-content/upl oads/2024/05/BOST-at-Prescot-Festival-2023-002-scaled.jpeg LOCATION:Prescot Town Centre\, Town Centre\, Prescot\, United Kingdom X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Town Centre\, Prescot\, Uni ted Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Prescot Town Centre:geo:0,0 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR