My Yellow Ukulele with Gill Bowman

This was a last minute booking, as we originally hadn't planned to go to a music session for kids during the festival. I have over the last 4 years taken both boys to many regular music and singing groups, including Rhyme Time, Jo Jingles and Monkey Music, so yet another nursery rhyme singing session hadn't been high on the agenda when I booked our tickets back in June. But somehow, Gill Bowman's My Yellow Ukulele appealed, not least because Gill is one of Scotland's foremost singer song writers and runs her own children's Song Circle locally, but also because it would seem that children can never have too much singing in their life.

Humpty Dumpty was one of the nursery rhymes on offer

My Yellow Ukulele runs for 2 to 5 year olds at the Pleasance and is a packed half hour of interactive nursery rhymes, animated with lots of props and including plenty of opportunities to dress up, sing, shake some shaky eggs, dance and play for the little ones. The children all enjoyed it, despite the fact that it was lunch time for most of them (I certainly had snacks at the ready).

Gill Bowman and her props

We had a lovely time singing and playing and Gill's guitar and song performance was very engaging and warm.

Leo's favourite bit: placing fruit and vegetables in the shape of a face for the Aiken Drum song
Juju's favourite bit: hopping along to the Five Little Frogs song
Juju's overall rating: 5 stars (out of 5)