The Hawkstone Farmers Choir

Following an extraordinary year that has taken them from muddy fields and tractor cabs to one of the biggest stages on British television, the group will now bring their powerful live show to theatres across the country, including a landmark performance at The London Palladium. 

 

The tour will see them perform their own original music alongside the soaring, emotionally charged arrangements that have become their trademark. It is the latest chapter in one of British music’s most remarkable recent stories. 

 

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. 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.