BOY choristers of Salisbury Cathedral are off to Brazil next month to give concerts in prestigious venues and to meet children who live in shanty towns.

The 16 boy choristers, together with Simon Lole, the cathedral's director of music, nine lay-vicars in the choir, organ scholar Cathy Langston, Bob Thackray, the head of the Cathedral School, and chaperones, fly out to Sao Paulo on December 3.

Their week-long tour will include four high-profile concerts and a carol service.