The 2008 Neston Music Festival will take place on Saturday and Sunday the 30th and 31st of August. This annual festival started in 2000 with a small-scale concert to raise money for the restoration of St Thomas' Church, Parkgate. From then it has has become progressively more ambitious, and has raised £6,700 for Claire House Children's Hospice and the Wirral Churches' Ark Project. In a similar format to last year there will be an orchestral concert on the Saturday evening and a concert by Bactiguard Wire Brass on the Sunday.
Proceeds will go to the charities mentioned above.

This year's orchestral programme will include Humperdinck's Overture to Hansel and Gretel, Grieg's Piano Concerto and Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony. The concert will be conducted by Eric Jennings and the soloist will be the young pianist, Jesse Beaumont.