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Jeremy Clarkson’s choir makes it to Britain’s Got Talent final – to the annoyance of Simon Cowell

Jeremy Clarkson’s choir makes it to Britain’s Got Talent final – to the annoyance of Simon Cowell

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter He’s got a farm, a pub, several presenting gigs – and now Jeremy Clarkson can add a Britain’s Got Talent final-making choir to his CV. The Hawkstone Farmers’ Choir, which was founded by Clarkson, made it through to the final of BGT on Saturday night after performing a rendition of Bastille’s “Pompeii”. Clarkson initially established the choir as part of an advertising campaign for his brewing firm, bringing 34 British farmers from across the country together to sing. However, the group have since used their platform to raise awareness for mental health issues in the farming community. Following the group’s live performance during the semi-final on Saturday (23 May), Simon Cowell praised the choir before admitting he’s not looking forward to seeing pal Clarkson’s “smug face”. The Hawkstone Farmers’ Choir performing on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ on Saturday (ITV) “You’re not a …

Jeremy Clarkson’s farmer’s choir set to perform on Britain’s Got Talent

Jeremy Clarkson’s farmer’s choir set to perform on Britain’s Got Talent

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Jeremy Clarkson’s farmers’ choir is set to audition on the latest instalment of Britain’s Got Talent this weekend. The Top Gear star, 65, set up the group thinking the choir would be him and “two cows honking tunelessly through Kumbaya”. However, it has developed into a “glorious gathering of brilliant people and beautiful voices representing the beating heart of rural Britain”, he said. One choir member, Katryna Shell, said she hoped that Clarkson would join them on the stage to perform in front of judges Alesha Dixon, KSI, Amanda Holden and Simon Cowell’s stand-in Stacey Solomon on Saturday night (21 March), due to his surprisingly tuneful voice. “We’d love something like that. He does actually sing as well, believe it or not. We have heard Jeremy sing. I won’t divulge further. “I’ll leave that up to you as to the tone …

Elementary School Choir Sings the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple,” “Box of Rain,” “Brokedown Palace” & More: RIP Bob Weir

Elementary School Choir Sings the Grateful Dead’s “Ripple,” “Box of Rain,” “Brokedown Palace” & More: RIP Bob Weir

Published by José Betancourt

?si=euaFB6jMJ_TPxRmf Down in Austin, Texas, music teacher Gavin Tabone leads the Bar­ton Hills Choir, made up of 3rd- through 6th-grade stu­dents. Backed by pro­fes­sion­al musi­cians, the choir per­forms a wide-rang­ing mix of music, from clas­sic pop and rock to indie songs by artists like Wilco, Muse, The Flam­ing Lips, and espe­cial­ly the Grate­ful Dead. Above and below, you can find per­for­mances of such Dead clas­sics as “Rip­ple,” “Box of Rain” and “Going Down the Road Feel­ing Bad” → “I Know You Rid­er.” And if you head to their YouTube chan­nel, you can find ver­sions of “Cas­sidy,” “Touch of Grey,” “Scar­let Bego­nias,” “Broke­down Palace,” and more. With the pass­ing of Bob Weir this week­end, it seems like a fit­ting time to high­light these per­for­mances. Weir first joined the Dead when only a teenag­er, still basi­cal­ly a kid him­self, and then con­tin­ued the jour­ney for the next 60 years, intro­duc­ing the Dead­’s song­book to suc­ces­sive gen­er­a­tions of fans. In recent years, he talked about the Dead song­book endur­ing for the next 200 to 300 years, much as Beethoven …

Threshold: the choir who sing to the dying – documentary | Death and dying

Threshold: the choir who sing to the dying – documentary | Death and dying

Published by Sam Flores

Dying is a process and in a person’s final hours and days, Nickie and her Threshold Choir are there to accompany people on their way and bring comfort. Through specially composed songs, akin to lullabies, the choir cultivates an environment of love and safety around those on their deathbed.  For the volunteer choir members, it is also an opportunity to channel their own experiences of grief and together open up conversations about death. Full interview with Nickie Aven, available here Source link