Featured BUG Jam Videos 21 May 2025 2025 - May BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on May 21, 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 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 Jams & Events 1 January 2025 Our BUG Jam is moving to a new home on July 16! We're EXCITED!
Featured BUG Jam 07/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam at our new digs! 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 5 March 2012 Forty Shades Of Green "Forty Shades of Green" is a song about Ireland, written and first performed by American country singer Johnny Cash. Cash wrote the song in 1959 while on a trip to Ireland; it was first released as a B-side of the song "The Rebel–Johnny Yuma" in 1961.
Songs 28 February 2012 Botany Bay "Botany Bay" is a song that can be traced back to the musical burlesque, Little Jack Sheppard, staged at The Gaiety Theatre, London, England, in 1885 and in Melbourne, Australia, in 1886.
Songs 27 February 2012 Citadel Hill "Citadel Hill" is a love song about meeting on Citadel Hill in Halifax, NS.
Songs 24 February 2012 Galway Girl, The "Galway Girl" or "The Galway Girl" is a song written by Steve Earle and recorded with Irish musician Sharon Shannon, which was featured on Earle's 2000 album Transcendental Blues.
Songs 23 February 2012 Whiskey In The Jar "Whiskey in the Jar" is a well-known Irish traditional song, set in the southern mountains of Ireland, often with specific mention of counties Cork and Kerry, as well as Fenit, a village in County Kerry.
Songs 22 February 2012 Brennan On The Moor The most popular Irish highwayman since the second half of the 19th century was William Brennan who is immortalized in the ballad "Brennan On The Moor". Not much is known about him except a lot of legends, but this song has survived.
Songs 19 February 2012 Maids When You’re Young "Maids When You're Young" is a bawdy song which is full of innuendo and risqué allusions. It would have been shocking in its day. It's also known as The Old Man Came Courting Me.
Songs 7 February 2012 A Mess of Blues "A Mess Of Blues" is a song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman that was originally recorded by Elvis Presley for RCA Records in 1960, reaching number 32 in the US charts and number 2 in the UK charts.
Songs 5 February 2012 Log Driver's Waltz, The Canadian singer/songwriter Wade Hemsworth composed less than twenty songs over a fifty year period. But his works were carefully crafted, and sometimes so singable and eminently "Canadian" that they came to be regarded as folksongs.
Songs 29 January 2012 Little Arrows Little Arrows, a 1968 hit recorded by Leapy Lee begs to be sung in February! An ear worm for sure, and sure to become a cult classic!
Songs 27 January 2012 Deep River Blues "Deep River Blues" is based on a song recorded in 1933 called “I’ve Got Them Big River Blues”, which was probably inspired by the cataclysmic flood of 1927 along the lower Mississippi River.
Songs 27 January 2012 House Is Rockin', The "The House is Rockin'" is the first track of In Step, Stevie Ray Vaughan's fourth and final studio album with Double Trouble released in 1989.
Songs 25 January 2012 Sugar, Sugar "Sugar, Sugar" is a pop song written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim in 1969. It was originally recorded by the Archies, a bubble gum pop band formed by a group of fictional teenagers in the television cartoon series The Archie Show.
Songs 15 January 2012 BUG Medley This BUG Medley was created for and first performed at the Ottawa Folklore Centre's 35th Anniversary Event in 2011.
Songs 15 November 2011 Snoopy's Christmas "Snoopy's Christmas" is a song performed by The Royal Guardsmen in 1967.
Songs 15 November 2011 Christmas in Prison "Christmas In Prison" is from the album "Sweet Revenge" the third album by American folk singer and songwriter John Prine, released in 1973.
Songs 10 November 2011 Blame It On The Bossa Nova "Blame It on the Bossa Nova" is a song written by Cynthia Weil (lyrics) and Barry Mann which was a 1963 hit single for Eydie Gormé, reaching number 7 on the Hot 100 in Billboard in March 1963. The Bossa Nova is a Brazilian music style in vogue in the United States from the late 1950s.
Songs 3 November 2011 Big Rock Candy Mountains, The "Big Rock Candy Mountain", first recorded by Harry McClintock in 1928, is a folk music song about a hobo's idea of paradise.
Songs 30 September 2011 Witch Doctor "Witch Doctor" is a song performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr., and released in 1958 by Liberty Records under the stage name David Seville. The song peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Songs 23 September 2011 Try To Remember "Try to Remember" was originally sung by Jerry Orbach in the Original Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks. The song made the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart three times in 1965 in versions by Ed Ames, Roger Williams, Barry McGuire, The Kingston Trio, The Sandpipers, and The Brothers Four.
Songs 23 August 2011 Sundown "Sundown" is a song by Canadian folk artist Gordon Lightfoot, released as a single in March 1974.
Songs 22 August 2011 Will The Circle Be Unbroken? "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" is a popular Christian hymn written in 1907 by Ada R. Habershon with music by Charles H. Gabriel.
Songs 22 August 2011 Come Rain Or Come Shine "Come Rain Or Come Shine" is from David Francey's 2003 album "Skating Rink" for which he was a 2004 JUNO WINNER.
Songs 22 August 2011 I've Just Seen A Face "I've Just Seen a Face" was written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and features McCartney on vocals. Before its recording, the song was briefly titled "Auntie Gin's Theme" after his father's youngest sister, because it was one of her favourites.
