MUSIC | SATURDAY, MAY 13 | 2–3 PM | FREE

El Faro Youth Chorus, an outreach program of Coro Lux and the first-ever trauma informed chorus, invites you to their spring concert, “Like a Tree Planted by the Water”. This 45-minute concert will feature spirituals, folk and protest songs, and more traditional choral music. Albuquerque’s own bluegrass trio, “Strange Holler” will also make an appearance.

ABOUT EL FARO YOUTH CHORUS

El Faro (“The Lighthouse”) Youth Chorus is an outreach program of Coro Lux providing high-quality choral music education and performance experiences to young people of the Albuquerque area. With its unique dedication to both excellence in choral musicianship and trauma informed principles, El Faro is a safe, fun, and inviting space for music-making and voice building for youth ages 7–18.

We sing music in a wide variety of styles, and we learn about many cultures, languages, and historical periods through our repertoire. We also learn about breathing, body awareness, vocal health, and stage presence, and of course, we learn how to read and understand music. Music and singing are wonderful ways of sharing our own stories and the stories of people long ago, far away, right here, and right now. Young people have an amazing capacity to expand their own perspectives and grow their own voices through the music they learn, and that is exactly our intention and our purpose in El Faro. 

For El Faro, “trauma informed” means we believe in supporting one another through life’s challenges in the way we learn, teach, communicate, and sing. Our singers come from different backgrounds, and we understand that the story of how we came to El Faro contains both happy and sad, easy and challenging, simple and complicated times. We come to rehearsal as we are, and rehearsal must first be a place of safety and support in order to be a place of learning, growth, and excellence.

CORO LUX MISSION STATEMENT

Coro Lux (“Chorus of Light”): a non-profit organization dedicated to the preparation and performance of great choral music for the enrichment and delight of our audiences and ourselves, and to propagating love of the choral art in the next generation of singers.