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Playground Proms

Playground Proms is an excellent, if rare, example of something far-reaching and beneficial coming out of lockdown. “We wanted to do something, at a time when most arts events were off, so we started offering music performances to primary schools – outdoors and socially distanced. And “Playground Proms” seemed a suitably catchy name” says founder Cathal Ó Dúill.

“I came to London from my native Ireland in the early 1990s to do a music degree

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