{"id":797169,"date":"2026-10-09T16:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797169\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T16:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T16:12:10","slug":"clarksons-bgt-winning-hawkstone-choir-releases-first-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/797169\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarkson&#8217;s BGT winning Hawkstone choir releases first single"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In May, the choir won the ITV talent show and received a \u00a3250,000 cash prize, as well as the chance to perform at the annual Royal Variety Performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has since announced a UK tour at venues across the UK, including Oxford, in the spring, which will follow the release of its debut album, This Is Home, in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been such a whirlwind 12 months since we auditioned for Britain&#8217;s Got Talent,&#8221; Florey, who is a fourth-generation farmer, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Trying to juggle the day job and everything that has come with the choir is becoming a challenge, but it&#8217;s something that we&#8217;re relishing and really getting stuck into.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said organising rehearsals was a &#8220;real challenge&#8221; because the choir members were &#8220;spread around the whole country&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So we are on our farms singing along to the songs, trying to rehearse ourselves, get our parts ready &#8211; we are generally outside on the farm singing to our livestock.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In May, the choir won the ITV talent show and received a \u00a3250,000 cash prize, as well as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-797169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797169","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=797169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}