BBC News: Children receive playground classical music lesson
Primary school students were treated to a music performance in their school playground as part of an initiative to bring classical music to more children.
Playground Proms visited Bure Valley Primary School in Aylsham, Norfolk for an interactive workshop accompanied with cellos and violins.
The group is hoping to tour schools across the United Kingdom and meet "disadvantaged" children and change perceptions around classical music.
Cathal Ó Dúill, founder of Playground Proms, said: "Some children we perform with may have never heard any live classical music before our visit."
The initiative came to life as a way of performing during Covid-19 social distancing restrictions to give local children access to music.
Playground Proms partnered with the Norfolk music hub to spend four days in schools across Norfolk, including in Great Yarmouth, Swaffham, Dereham, King's Lynn and Norwich.
Cathal Ó Dúill, founder of Playground Proms, said: "We believe classical music can be enjoyed by everyone and the response to both our schools' workshops and performances in the local communities show this.
"Some children we perform with may have never heard any live classical music before our visit and we believe passionately in the transformative nature of live music in all children's lives."
Classical Music Initiative in Schools Playground Proms Receives More Arts Council Funding
Playground Proms, an initiative from comedy string quartet Graffiti Classics to perform live, interactive educational classical music shows in school playgrounds, will tour schools and local venues across the country in 2024 thanks to a third Arts Council England (ACE) grant. Inspired by the iconic BBC Promenade Concerts, Playground Proms were originally developed in 2021 as a way to perform during COVID-19 social distancing restrictions and began as a collaboration with Cumbria Music Hub, which gives children and young people in the area access to music, supported by Arts Council England The first tour was such a success that a second project was toured in Cumbria and a dedicated charity created to focus on the educational side of Graffiti Classics' work. This third ACE grant enables the project to be rolled out to even more schools later this year in collaboration with other music hubs in Cumbria, East Riding, Lancashire, Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Portsmouth and York, as well as a pilot project in Kent.
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Music in schools initiative gets further ACE funding
An initiative to perform live classical music shows in school playgrounds will tour schools and venues nationwide this year after being given further funding by Arts Council England (ACE).
Inspired by the BBC's Promenade Concerts, Playground Proms were initially developed by comedy string quartet Graffiti Classics in 2021 as a way to perform during COVID social distancing restrictions. They began as a collaboration with Cumbria Music Hub and toured across the county.
The charity said the latest grant from ACE, the third it has now received, will enable the project to be rolled out to even more schools later this year in collaboration with music hubs in Cumbria, East Riding, Lancashire, Norfolk, North Yorkshire, Portsmouth and York, as well as a pilot project in Kent.
Cathal Ó Dúill from Playground Proms said, “We are so pleased to be able to take Playground Proms to even more school children in 2024 and are very grateful to Arts Council England for their support.
"We believe classical music can be enjoyed by everyone, and the response to our schools’ workshops and performances in the local communities shows this.
"Some children we perform with may have never heard any live classical music before our visit, and we believe passionately in the transformative nature of live music in all children’s lives.
"All our audiences really enjoy the music being presented in a new and fresh way, and we hope this can go some way to show there is interest from the public and classical music should be invested in."
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Playground Proms scheme expands with additional Arts Council funding
Cathal Ó Dúill from Playground Proms said: "We are so pleased to be able to take Playground Proms to even more school children in 2024 and are very grateful to Arts Council England for their support. We believe classical music can be enjoyed by everyone and the response to both our schools’ workshops and performances in the local communities show this......
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