Featured BUG Jam Videos 18 March 2026 2026 - March BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Kitchen Party Jam recorded on March 18, 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 BUG Jams & Events 1 March 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 04/26 1 March 2026 BUG Jam Live! April 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 Jams & Events 1 March 2026 BUG Jam Live! May 20, 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 1 March 2026 BUG Jam Live! June 17, 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 1 March 2026 BUG Jam Live! July 15, 2026 WHERE: Ottawa Masonic Centre 2nd Floor Lounge 2140 Walkley Road, Ottawa The building is on the south side of the road between Conroy Rd. and
Featured BUG Jams & Events 1 March 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 1 March 2026 We're On Vacation - No BUG Jam In September 2026 But Mark and I will be back before you know it!
Featured BUG Jams & Events 1 March 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 Jams & Events 1 March 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 Jams & Events 1 March 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 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 9 June 2012 Brown Eyed Girl "Brown Eyed Girl" is a song by Northern Irish singer and songwriter Van Morrison.
Songs 3 June 2012 Angel of the Morning Written and composed by New York City-born songwriter Chip Taylor, "Angel of the Morning" was originally offered to Connie Francis to sing, but she turned it down because she thought that it was too risqué for her career.
Songs 6 May 2012 Freight Train (Cotten) "Freight Train" is an American folk song written by Elizabeth Cotten (1895–1987) in the early 20th century, and popularized during the American folk revival and British skiffle period of the 1950s and 1960s.
Songs 5 May 2012 Freight Train (Eaglesmith) Frederick John Elgersma (born July 9, 1957), known by the stage name Fred Eaglesmith, is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. He is known for writing songs about vehicles, rural life, down-and-out characters, lost love and quirky rural folk.
Songs 3 May 2012 Breakdown "Breakdown" is a song written by Jack Johnson, Dan Nakamura & Paul Huston and released by Jack Johnson in 2005.
Songs 2 May 2012 I Like Trains Frederick John Elgersma (born July 9, 1957), known by the stage name Fred Eaglesmith, is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter.
Songs 1 May 2012 Wagon Wheel "Wagon Wheel" is a song co-written by Bob Dylan (1973) and Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show (2004).
Songs 29 April 2012 Folsom Prison Blues "Folsom Prison Blues" is a song written in 1953 and first recorded in 1955 by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. The song combines elements from two popular folk styles, the train song and the prison song, both of which Cash continued to use for the rest of his career.
Songs 11 April 2012 Frankie And Johnny "Frankie and Johnny" (sometimes spelled "Frankie and Johnnie"; also known as "Frankie and Albert" or just "Frankie") is a traditional American popular song.
Songs 8 April 2012 Jolene "Jolene" is a song written and performed by American country music artist Dolly Parton. It was released in October 1973 as the first single and title track from her album of the same name.
Songs 3 April 2012 Ballad Of A Teenage Queen "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" is a song written by Jack Clement and recorded by Johnny Cash for his 1958 album Sings the Songs That Made Him Famous. The song hit number one on the US Country charts and number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Songs 8 March 2012 Down By The Sally Gardens "Down by the Salley Gardens" is a poem by William Butler Yeats published in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems in 1889.
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 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 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.
