Featured BUG Jams & Events 21 June 2026 Save the Dates for Upcoming BUG Jams! Mark your calendars to remind you when the BUG Jams are and when you can purchase tickets - it's not ALWAYS the same! It will always be on a Wednesday, but not necessarily the 3rd Wednesday of the month!
Featured BUG Jam 07/26 21 June 2026 BUG Jam Live! July 15, 2026 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 08/26 21 June 2026 BUG Jam Live! August 19, 2026 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jams & Events 21 June 2026 We're On Vacation - No BUG Jam In September 2026 But Mark and I will be back before you know it!
Featured BUG Jam 10/26 21 June 2026 BUG Jam Live! October 21, 2026 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 11/26 21 June 2026 BUG Jam Live! November 18, 2026 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 12/26 21 June 2026 BUG Jam Live! December 9, 2026 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 Videos 18 June 2026 2026 - June BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on June 17, 2026! 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 Photos 7 March 2026 BUGs play at In From The Cold at Parkdale United Church - March 2026 Mark and I want to thank each and every one of the amazing volunteers who made the time today to join us for the In
Featured Photos 10 December 2025 BUG Jam Live! December 2025 So much ukulele fun on a beautiful, snowy winter night! Fabulous festive outfits, a terrific dessert buffet, and outstanding, enthusiastic singing from all of you!
Songs 25 June 2026 Come And Get Your Love "Come and Get Your Love" is a song with lyrics and music by Lolly Vegas and recorded by his band Redbone in 1973.
Songs 29 May 2026 Never Give It Up (Oh Canada) 🍁 "Never Give It Up (Oh Canada)" is a 2025 song written by Canadian singer-songwriters, Adam Wendler, Charles Cleyn, and Derek Ullenboom (d.boom) and released under their "band" name, The Privateers.
Songs 27 May 2026 Blinding Lights 🍁 "Blinding Lights" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter the Weeknd from his fourth studio album, After Hours (2020). The song was released on November 29, 2019, as the album's second single.
Songs 27 May 2026 Gatineau Girls, The 🍁 "The Gatineau Girls" is from The Wakimi Wailers first album, The Last of the White Pine Loggers, recorded in 1985. The album is a collection of traditional folk songs from the Ontario lumberjack winter camps of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Songs 8 April 2026 I Love The Mountains "I Love the Mountains", also known as "Boom De Yada" is a popular children's song and campfire song that dates back to at least the 1950s, similar to "Heart And Soul".
Songs 26 March 2026 Blame It On The Ukulele "Blame It On The Ukulele" is a parody song written by Susan Nicholls of the Ukulele Republic of Canberra. It's popular with ukulele groups all over the world!
Songs 24 March 2026 Monkey And The Engineer, The "The Monkey and the Engineer" was written by Jesse Fuller and released in 1961.
Songs 23 March 2026 Green, Green "Green, Green" is a hit single released by American folk music group The New Christy Minstrels on June 4, 1963.
Songs 21 February 2026 Saturday Night Up The Gatineau 🍁 "Saturday Night Up The Gatineau" was written by Mac Beattie and released by Mac Beattie & His Melodiers in 1965 on their album, "This Ottawa Valley of Mine".
Songs 21 February 2026 Doon In The Wee Room The Wee Room of the song was in Quin's Bar in Glasgow, Scotland, which no long exists, but the Scotia Pub in Glasgow had a famous Wee Room too.
Songs 17 February 2026 Go Rosie Go 🍁 "Go Rosie Go" was written by Maureen Ennis and Mark Murphy and recorded by The Ennis Sisters on their 2018 album, Keeping Time.
Songs 4 January 2026 That's All Right “That’s All Right” was a song written and originally recorded by Delta blues singer/songwriter and guitarist Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup in 1946.
Songs 28 October 2025 Stick Season "Stick Season" is the title track of Noah Kahan's third album, Stick Season, released in 2022.
Songs 22 October 2025 It's Hard To Be Humble "It's Hard to be Humble" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Mac Davis from his LP, Hard To Be Humble. It became an international hit in the spring of 1980.
Songs 27 August 2025 Marie Laveau "Marie Laveau" is a song written by Shel Silverstein and Baxter Taylor. It was first recorded by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show on their 1971 album Doctor Hook. Bobby Bare's live recording in 1974 went to #1 for a single week and spent a total of 18 weeks on the country charts.
Songs 6 August 2025 Hot Stuff "Hot Stuff" was recorded by Donna Summer and released in 1979. Donna Summer won the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for this song.
Songs 30 July 2025 High School Confidential 🍁 "High School Confidential" is a song by Canadian new wave band Rough Trade, from their 1980 album Avoid Freud. It was their breakthrough Top 40 hit in Canada, and it remains their most famous song. "Highschool Confidential" was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2020.
Songs 29 July 2025 Truly Madly Deeply "Truly Madly Deeply" is a song by Australian pop duo Savage Garden (Darren Hayes and Daniel Jones), released in March 1997 as the third single from their self-titled debut album (1997) by Roadshow and Warner Music.
Songs 29 July 2025 Into The Mystic "Into the Mystic" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and featured on his 1970 album Moondance. It was also included on Morrison's 1974 live album, It's Too Late to Stop Now.
Songs 28 May 2025 There Is Nowhere We Won't Go "There Is Nowhere To Go" from Jeremy Messersmith's 2017 album, "11 Obscenely Optimistic Songs For Ukulele: A Micro-Folk Record For the 21st Century And Beyond"
Songs 28 May 2025 Drift Away (I Wanna Get Lost In Your Rock And Roll) "Drift Away" is a song written by Mentor Williams in 1970, which became a big hit with Dobie Gray's recording in 1973.
Songs 28 May 2025 Oh, Boy! "Oh, Boy!" is a song written by Sonny West, Bill Tilghman and Norman Petty and recorded by Buddy Holly and The Crickets in 1957.
Songs 5 May 2025 Mademoiselle (Voulez-vous Danser) 🍁 "Mademoiselle (Voulez-vous Danser)" is a song written and recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter, Lennie Gallant, and released on his 1994 album, The Open Window.
Songs 30 April 2025 La ballade des gens heureux "La ballade des gens heureux" is a song composed by French singer-songwriter Gérard Lenorman with lyrics by Pierre Delanoë. It was first recorded by Gérard Lenorman in 1975.
