{"id":706302,"date":"2026-07-23T02:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706302\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:17:11","slug":"hawkstone-farmers-choir-announces-debut-album-at-royal-welsh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/706302\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawkstone Farmers’ Choir announces debut album at Royal Welsh"},"content":{"rendered":"

The choir was originally founded by Clarkson as part of an advertising campaign for his Cotswolds-based brewing firm.<\/p>\n

Since then, the group has remained together and used its platform to help raise awareness around mental health in farming.<\/p>\n

After entering Britain’s Got Talent, judge Amanda Holden pressed her golden buzzer following the ensemble’s performance on the Saturday evening show in May.<\/p>\n

The 30-strong group of farmers got a free pass to the semi finals of the ITV talent show and won the \u00a3250,000 cash prize in the final – including the opportunity to perform at the annual Royal Variety Performance in November. <\/p>\n

The members described Clarkson, who was in the audience for the live final<\/a>, as their “biggest cheerleader” and added they “couldn’t thank him enough”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The choir was originally founded by Clarkson as part of an advertising campaign for his Cotswolds-based brewing firm.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-706302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}