The Hawkstone Farmers Choir - This Is Home - Grand Theatre

Following an extraordinary year that has taken them from muddy fields and tractor cabs to one of the biggest stages on British television, The Hawkstone Farmers’ Choir will next embark on a major UK headline tour in March and April 2027.

The tour will see them perform their own original music alongside the soaring, emotionally charged arrangements that have become their trademark.

The Hawkstone Farmers Choir began with a simple call-out from Jeremy Clarkson, looking for farmers to sing on a Hawkstone beer advert. More than 40 farmers and agricultural workers came together, many accustomed to spending their working lives alone in tractors, barns and fields and something unexpected happened. What began as a group of strangers singing together became something far bigger.

Under the musical direction of Simon Gwilliam and Lizzie Deane, the choir entered the 19th series of Britain’s Got Talent, delivering a hugely emotional audition performance of Elbow’s 'One Day Like This' , moving the audience and judges to tears.

Then, in May 2026, they did something no choir had achieved before. Rather than returning with another cover, The Hawkstone Farmers’ Choir stepped onto the final stage to perform their own original song, 'This Is Home'’ - a song rooted in farming, belonging, community and the place they call home. The British public voted them the winners, making them the first choir to ever win Britain’s Got Talent.

Defined by enormous harmonies, raw emotion and the unmistakable weight of lived experience behind every performance, The Hawkstone Farmers Choir have developed into far more than a television success story. They are an increasingly powerful voice for rural Britain - celebrating the people, communities and landscapes at the heart of British farming while refusing to shy away from the realities facing the industry.

Farming remains one of the UK’s most isolated professions: long hours, financial and environmental uncertainty and a culture in which difficult conversations have not always come easily. As friendships developed within the choir, so did honest conversations about the pressures of agricultural life and mental health.

Today, The Hawkstone Farmers Choir are using their collective voice to help bring those conversations into the open.

This is a group of ordinary people at the centre of an extraordinary story.