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Most of the project was funded by Creative Ireland, with additional support from Healthy Ireland, Age Friendly Ireland and other private and public funding bodies with the support of local Arts officers and Creative Ireland programme managers. Following on from our successful programme of concerts in South Dublin between 2020-2024, we are delighted to announce that we will facilitate 4 visits between August to November 2025 in South Dublin, in partnership with South Dublin Arts Office, featuring well known soloists on each visit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":38637,"template":"","class_list":["post-38636","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Carehome Concerts 2025 - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Care Concerts (formerly Covid Care Concerts) was established in May 2020 by cellist Gerald Peregrine, in rapid response to the pandemic.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/carehome-concerts-2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Carehome Concerts 2025 - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Care Concerts (formerly Covid Care Concerts) was established in May 2020 by cellist Gerald Peregrine, in rapid response to the pandemic. 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