A Merseyside festival opens this Friday for a 10-day programme of arts and music to include costumed 17th-century musicians, Liverpool’s most esteemed organist and a quartet of tubas.
The Prescot Festival, now in its sixth year, will commemorate the 400th anniversary of the town’s Parish Church by hosting A Tapestry of Music, featuring musicians dressed in full 17th-century regalia and playing authentic 17th-century period instruments.
Another concert will feature Professor Dr Ian Tracey, Organist Titulaire of Liverpool Cathedral, Chorusmaster to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Society and official Organist to the City of Liverpool.
An appearance by contemporary tuba quartet Tubalaté, a screening of the 1961 classic film Whistle Down the Wind and
There are still opportunities for the public to get involved. Choristers of all ages are invited to participate in a ‘Come-and-Sing’ performance of Mendelssohn’s epic choral work Elijah on Saturday, 19th June.
Singers of a more contemporary bent can join Phil Jones for an acoustic night and open mic on Wednesday, 23rd June.
And anyone not sure they can hold a tune can always bring along their Union Jack for a rousing, patriotic sing-along on Sunday, 27th June, in a traditional, Proms-style finale.
Full details of the programme are available at the official website, www.prescotfestival.co.uk. The Sixth Annual Prescot Festival of Music and the Arts runs from Friday, 18th to Sunday, 27th June.
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