Coro Camino

Coro Camino is a chamber choir made up of 12 Gloucestershire-based singers who also sing with a local choral society, Philomusica.

The choir came together in 2019 to undertake a walking and singing tour along the route of the Camino de Santiago in northern Spain, finishing in Santiago de Compostela. The concerts were well received and a second Camino tour was undertaken in 2023.

The choir also performs regularly in its home area, in churches and other venues (including Gloucester Cathedral), helping the churches and charities with fund-raising initiatives. This has included participation in a Tewkesbury Abbey to Gloucester Cathedral pilgrimage, with members of the choir also walking the route and with performances at the Abbey and the Cathedral as well as at a lunchtime stop along the route.

This year Coro Camino is looking forward to undertaking a three concert tour in Cumbria from 25th to 29th May (performing in Broughton-In-Furness, Ulverston and Penrith), making use of connections which choir members have in these locations. They will also be looking to replicate the formula of their trips to northern Spain by including some walks in the Cumbrian Fells.

The choir is planning to perform a wide variety of music in a programme of about 75 minutes duration, mainly classical but also with some numbers from musicals: music by Tallis, Vivaldi, Faure, Elgar, Lauridsen, Rutter, Chilcott and Andrew Lloyd Webber will be included – a choral pilgrimage across centuries and continents.

The concert at Ulverston Parish Church on Wednesday 27th May at 7.30pm is being held to support the fund raising for the North aisle roof and parapets of the church which will cost around £350,000.