The Hawkstone Farmers' Choir

The Hawkstone Farmers' Choir are coming to the Bournemouth Pavilion Theatre on Thursday 11 March 2027, part of an 18-date UK tour. If you've followed them, you'll know they're the first choir ever to win Britain's Got Talent, taking the title in May 2026. The Bournemouth date is one of nearly twenty stops they're making across the country this year.

Their story is a bit of a fluke. It started with a call-out from Jeremy Clarkson, who was looking for farmers to sing on a Hawkstone beer advert; more than 40 agricultural workers answered it. Under the musical direction of Simon Gwilliam and Lizzie Deane, they entered the 19th series of Britain's Got Talent with an emotional cover of Elbow's 'One Day Like This', which moved the judges and earned Amanda Holden's Golden Buzzer. In the final, they became the first act to perform an original song on the show's final stage, 'This Is Home', and the public voted them winners. Since then, they've become a powerful voice for rural Britain.

On stage, they perform their own original music alongside the soaring arrangements that have become their trademark. It's a mix of the songs they've written themselves and the covers that first put them on the map, so you'll hear both the new material and the sound that won over the public. The Bournemouth show starts at 7:30pm.