NEXT month’s St Helens choir festival is being billed as the music event of the year.

This free event is scheduled to start at 7pm on on Wednesday, April 2 at St Helens Parish Church, Church Square in St Helens town centre.

It will feature songs by Haydock Male Voice Choir, Celebration Choir, Red V Voices, Lyndale Singers, Broad Oak School, Jubilate Praise, Pinlkington Choir, Parish Church School, New Street Singers, St Helens Gospel Choir, Asda Choir, Cowley Singers and Bicrhley St Mary’s School.

Admission is free but a collection will be taken on the evening for Willowbrook Hospice.

Further details from John Beirne on 07779 24068.