Cathedral choirs from three towns and cities along Hadrian's Wall will come together this month for a concert to celebrate the anniversary of the UNESCO World Heritage site.
The Hadrian's Wall Choral Festival runs alongside the 1900 Festival, a year long programme of events which celebrates the 1900th anniversary of the former northern frontier of the Roman Empire. A combined total of more than 100 singers from Newcastle, Hexham Abbey and Carlisle Cathedral Choirs will perform at the concert on Saturday July 9.
It will be the first time that the choirs have performed together since the pandemic, and the concert is part of Carlisle Cathedral's six-day summer festival of music. The choirs will sing works by Parry, Elgar and Stanford together, while all three will also give individual performances.
