Featured BUG Jam Videos 17 April 2025 2025 - April BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on April 16, 2025, at Red Bird Live with a full house of enthusiastic ukers! We're in Ottawa Ontario Canada - join us to strum, sing, and be merry! It's FUN! And you don't need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jams & Events 1 January 2025 IMPORTANT NEWS! You will now always have a seat at BUG! How? Beginning with our jam on March 20, 2024, all folks must have a ticket to be admitted to our BUG Jams at Red Bird. Please share this news with anyone you know who comes to BUG!
Featured BUG Jam 05/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! May 21, 2025 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 07/06/25 1 January 2025 BUGs Will Be Playing @ Unitarian House of Ottawa! We're kicking off Seniors Month with residents, friends, and staff at Unitarian House on June 7, 2025!
Featured BUG Jam 06/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! June 18, 2025 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 07/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! July 16, 2025 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 08/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! August 20, 2025 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 09/25 1 January 2025 We're On Vacation - No BUG Jam In September But Mark and I will be back before you know it!
Featured BUG Jam 10/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! October 15, 2025 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 11/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! November 19, 2025 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 12/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! December 17, 2025 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Songs 3 April 2025 Moon Over Melbourne "Moon Over Melbourne" was written by Canadian singer-songwriter, David Francey, in 2011 for an Australian friend's birthday!
Songs 27 February 2025 A Place In The Choir American folk singer, Bill Staines, wrote A Place in the Choir (also known as The Animal Song, and All God’s Critters). He also made it into a children’s book. It is a popular song in Ireland and is often thought of as Irish.
Songs 25 November 2024 Skating Rink "Skating Rink" was written and recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter, David Francey, in 2003.
Songs 5 November 2024 Little Ukulele "Little Ukulele" is a song written by Canadian Kevin Breit, and recorded by Canadian singer/songwriters and multi-instrumentalists, Harry Manx and Kevin, for their 2011 collaborative album, Strictly Whatever.
Songs 26 June 2024 Love Is A Rose "Love Is a Rose" is a song written and composed by Canadian singer-songwriter, Neil Young. It first became popular in 1975 when Linda Ronstadt had a country hit with her version.
Songs 2 June 2024 Dreams "Dreams" is a song by British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, written by singer Stevie Nicks for the band's eleventh studio album, Rumours (1977).
Songs 28 April 2024 Neutron Dance "Neutron Dance" is a song written by Allee Willis and Danny Sembello which was introduced by The Pointer Sisters on their 1983 album "Break Out".
Songs 4 March 2024 Ol' Outport Museum "Ol' Outport Museum" is a song with lyrics written by Rob Starkes of La Scie, Newfoundland, in 2022. Music is based on The Great Rock Island Route published 1882 and later know as Wabash Cannonball.
Songs 3 March 2024 Muirsheen Durkin Johnny McEvoy’s recording of “Muirsheen Durkin” reached number 1 in Ireland in 1966.
Songs 28 October 2023 Love Me Do "Love Me Do" is the official debut single by the English rock band the Beatles, backed by "P.S. I Love You". The single was originally released in the United Kingdom on 5 October 1962.
Songs 26 October 2023 Born This Way "Born This Way" is a song by American singer Lady Gaga, and the lead single, released in 2011, from her second studio album of the same name.
Songs 29 July 2023 Stop Stop Stop "Stop Stop Stop" is a 1966 song by British pop group the Hollies that was written by group members Allan Clarke, Tony Hicks, and Graham Nash.
Songs 4 May 2023 California Stars "California Stars" is from the 1998 album "Mermaid Avenue" of previously unheard lyrics written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, put to music written and performed by British singer Billy Bragg and the American band Wilco.
Songs 4 February 2023 Love Is The Seventh Wave "Love Is the Seventh Wave" is a hit single from Sting's 1985 solo debut album The Dream of the Blue Turtles. It was released as the album's second single in the UK, and the third single in the US.
Songs 12 January 2023 Rip It Up "Rip It Up" is a rock and roll song written by Robert Blackwell and John Marascalco. In June 1956, Specialty Records released it as a single by Little Richard with "Ready Teddy" as the B-side.
Songs 11 January 2023 Get Rhythm "Get Rhythm" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter and musician Johnny Cash. It was originally released by Sun Records as the B-side to the single release "I Walk the Line" in 1956.
Songs 8 November 2022 Van Lear Rose The song, "Van Lear Rose", was written by Loretta Lynn and her daughter Patsy Lynn Russell and released on the album, Van Lear Rose, in 2004.
Songs 23 March 2022 Cecilia "Cecilia" is a song written by US musician Paul Simon. It was first recorded by Simon and Garfunkel for their 1970 album Bridge Over Troubled Water.
Songs 31 January 2022 Just The Way You Are "Just The Way You Are" is the debut solo single by American singer-songwriter Bruno Mars. It is the lead single from his debut studio album, Doo-Wops & Hooligans (2010).
Songs 30 July 2021 Abracadabra "Abracadabra" is a song by American rock group Steve Miller Band, written by Steve Miller. The song was released as the first single from the 1982 album of the same name the same year.
Songs 20 July 2021 Nowhere With You The single "Nowhere with You, written and recorded by Joel Plaskett in 2006, has received the most mainstream radio airplay of any Plaskett release to date, and was featured in a Zellers television commercial.
Songs 27 May 2021 Chasing Cars "Chasing Cars" is a song by Scottish-Northern Irish alternative rock band Snow Patrol. The song gained significant popularity in the US after being featured in the second season finale of the popular medical drama Grey's Anatomy, which aired on 15 May 2006.
Songs 25 April 2021 Dancing With Myself "Dancing with Myself" is a rock song first commercially released in the United Kingdom in October 1980 and then re-mixed and re-released by the band's singer/frontman Billy Idol as a solo artist in the United States in 1981, where the song reached #27 in the U.S. Billboard's Hot Dance Play Chart.
Songs 26 February 2021 Budapest "Budapest" is a song by English singer-songwriter George Ezra, first released on his EP, Did You Hear The Rain? (2013).
