Fife Fife couple go viral to entertain youngsters with songs and puppets during lockdown By Aileen Robertson April 24 2020, 8:55am April 24 2020, 8:55am Share Fife couple go viral to entertain youngsters with songs and puppets during lockdown Share via Facebook Twitter Linkedin Whatsapp Messenger Email Post link https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/fife/1284772/fife-couple-go-viral-to-entertain-youngsters-with-songs-and-puppets-during-lockdown/ Copy Link A Fife couple have been helping entertain pre-school children from their homes. Musicians Mark and Claire Urban, of Newport, run Movers and Shakers sessions for pre-school children featuring traditional songs and puppets. Movers and Shakers duo Claire and Mark Urban. After lockdown they moved the sessions online and have found they are reaching a wider audience as parents try to keep youngsters entertained. Sessions take place over the Zoom online meeting platform on Fridays at 10.30am. Mark, 49, said: “It’s been good because we were doing this in Newport but it seems to work quite well online. “I never used social media that much before but I got stuck into it because I was stuck in the house. “The response has been really good. Our audience doubled in one week.” Mark is a guitar teacher and his wife Claire, 39, teaches piano. They have performed as a duo under the name St Kilda Mailboat. “I think it’s important to share songs,” said Mark. “We perform traditional music, children’s songs and our own songs, and we’ve got puppets.”
