Featured BUG Jam Videos 20 December 2024 2024 - December BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on December 18, 2024, at Red Bird Live - 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 November 2024 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 01/25 1 November 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! January 15, 2025 Happy New Year! Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN! And you don’t need to be any good.
Songs 5 November 2024 Singing Away My Blues "Singing Away My Blues" was written and recorded by Canadian singer/songwriter T.C. Connors, a.k.a., Stompin' Tom Connors in 1978.
Songs 8 September 2024 Cat's In The Cradle "Cat's in the Cradle" is a folk rock song by American singer-songwriter Harry Chapin, from his fourth studio album, Verities & Balderdash (1974).
Songs 8 September 2024 C'est l'Halloween "C'est l'Halloween" was written in 1981 by a young teacher named Matt Maxwell, and it was the song that inspired him to leave his teaching job and begin a 15-year career as a children's performer.
Songs 29 June 2024 I Lost My Baby "I Lost My Baby" is from Québécois singer-songwriter Jean Leloup's album, Le dôme, released in 1996.
Songs 31 May 2024 Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) "Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)" is a song by the British singer-songwriter Peter Sarstedt. Its recording was produced by Ray Singer, engineered by John Mackswith at Lansdowne Recording Studios and released in 1969.
Songs 10 March 2024 Captain Wedderburn "Captain Wedderburn" was recorded by Great Big Sea with Sarah Harmer. It's based on "Captain Wedderburn's Courtship" an old Scottish ballad dating from 1785 or earlier - Child Ballad #46, Roud 36.
Songs 1 March 2024 Bluenose Song, The "The Bluenose Song" also known as "Ballad of the Bluenose" is a maritime folk song written in 1966 by Michael Stanbury.
Songs 30 January 2024 Sing Me A Song In 2022, Canadian singer-songwriters William Prince and Serena Ryder released the standalone singles "Sing Me a Song" and "River of Tears".
Songs 28 January 2024 Let My Love Open The Door "Let My Love Open the Door" is a song written and performed by Pete Townshend from his 1980 album Empty Glass.
Songs 28 January 2024 Si jamais j'oublie "Si jamais j’oublie" is a beautiful and captivating song with lyrics by YCare (Assane Attyé) and music by Jean Etienne Maillard, and released as a single by the talented French singer, Zaz in 2015. In 2016, it was included as a bonus track on her album, Sur La Route.
Songs 22 November 2023 Restroom Door Said "Gentlemen", The Track 8 from the Bob Rivers Comedy Corp "Twisted Christmas" album released 1988 - a parody of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen written and performed by Bob Rivers Comedy Corp 1987 (Bob Rivers, Dennis “Fly” Amero, Brian Silva).
Songs 30 October 2023 Be My Forever "Be My Forever" is a song recorded by America singer-songwriter, Christina Perri, and featuring Ed Sheeran.
Songs 24 May 2023 Last Song "Last Song" is a 1972 hit song by Canadian trio Edward Bear. It was the first release from their self-titled third album and was their greatest hit.
Songs 1 April 2023 Leave Me Longing “Leave Me Longing” is from Canadian singer-songwriter Ben Caplan’s debut studio album released in 2011, In The Time Of The Great Remembering.
Songs 22 March 2023 Ain't It A Beauty (aka Garden Hose Song) "Ain't It A Beauty (aka Garden Hose Song)" recorded by Cliff Ferré in 1956.
Songs 5 February 2023 Ripple "Ripple" was released on the Grateful Dead’s 1970 album, American Beauty, which was the second of two noteworthy albums that they released that year, the first being Workingman’s Dead.
Songs 5 December 2022 Gingerbread House Song, The "The Gingerbread House Song" was written and recorded by Alaskan singer-songwriter and music teacher, Kyle Harrington, in 2013.
Songs 11 October 2022 Zombie Song, The "The Zombie Song" was written by Stephanie Mabey in 2009, released as a single in 2010, and included on her 2012 album "Wake Up Dreaming".
Songs 7 December 2021 Little Skidoo "Little Skidoo" was written by Canadian Bert Collins in 1967 for his children, but not recorded until 1977.
Songs 31 October 2021 Try A Little Kindness "Try a Little Kindness" is a song written by Curt Sapaugh and Bobby Austin, first recorded by American country music singer Glen Campbell in 1969.
Songs 14 April 2021 Could I Have This Dance? "Could I Have This Dance?" is a song recorded by the Canadian country music artist Anne Murray. It was used in the 1980 film Urban Cowboy and appeared on both the Urban Cowboy soundtrack album for that film, as well as on the Anne Murray's Greatest Hits compilation album, issued in late 1980.
Songs 13 January 2021 Book Of Love, The (The Magnetic Fields) "The Book of Love" is a song written by Stephin Merritt and attributed to The Magnetic Fields, an American indie pop group founded and led by him.
Songs 19 June 2020 Manitoba Charles Thomas "Stompin' Tom" Connors, OC (February 9, 1936 - March 6, 2013) was one of Canada's most prolific and well-known folk singers, he was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. Connors' habit of stomping the heel of his left boot to keep rhythm earned him the nickname Stompin' Tom .
Songs 19 June 2020 Chu pas une femme à marier Les Hay Babies are an indie-folk music trio made up of three vibrant young women. Katrine Noël, Vivianne Roy and Julie Aubé, who come from three of the four cardinal points in New Brunswick, blend their accents to create a sense of peace and present their own kind of indie-folk.
