Featured BUG Jams & Events 1 January 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!
Featured BUG Jam 01/26 1 January 2026 BUG Jam Live! January 14, 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 January 2026 BUG Really Small, REALLY SLOW Jam with Sue & Mark! January 24, 2026 Beginners! Mark and I are holding a ukulele slow jam in our home. Come join us!
Featured BUG Jam 02/26 1 January 2026 BUG Jam Live! February 11, 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 03/26 1 January 2026 BUG Kitchen Party Jam Live! March 18, 2026 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and shenanigans! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured Photos 10 December 2025 BUG Jam Live! Photos - 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!
Featured BUG Jam Videos 10 December 2025 2025 - December BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Ho-Ho-Holiday Jam recorded on December 10, 2025, with a full house of festive ukers despite our first major snowstorm of the year! 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.
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 26 November 2021 River "River" is a song by Canadian singer songwriter Joni Mitchell, from her 1971 album Blue.
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 30 March 2021 Rambles Of Spring, The "The Rambles Of Spring" was an original composition by Tommy Makem which was introduced on The Makem & Clancy Concert album in 1977.
Songs 28 March 2021 Me And The Man On The Moon Herbert Butros Khaury (April 12, 1932 – November 30, 1996), also known as Herbert Buckingham Khaury and known professionally as Tiny Tim, was an American singer, ukulele player, and musical archivist.
Songs 11 January 2021 If "If" is a song written by American singer-songwriter David Gates and recorded by his group, Bread, in 1971.
Songs 1 November 2020 Lean On Me "Lean on Me" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Bill Withers. It was released in April 1972 as the first single from his second album, Still Bill.
Songs 5 August 2020 Patricia The Stripper "Patricia the Stripper" is from Chris de Burgh's 2nd. album, "Spanish Train and Other Stories", released by A&M Records in 1975.
Songs 19 June 2020 Black Rum And Blueberry Pie DOWNLOAD THE SONGSHETBlack Rum And Blueberry Pie (WORD) Black Rum And Blueberry Pie (PDF) YOU CAN PLAY IN THE SAME KEY AS THE VIDEO! Written
Songs 19 June 2020 Chante-la ta chanson The idea that “everyone has their own melody inside” had been bouncing around Marcel Lefebvre’s head for quite some time. It was while driving back from the family cottage that the famous chorus came to him spontaneously.
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 9 May 2020 Wonderful Tonight "Wonderful Tonight" is a ballad written by Eric Clapton. It was included on Clapton's 1977 album Slowhand.
Songs 20 April 2020 Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" is a comedy song written by Monty Python member Eric Idle that was first featured in the 1979 film Monty Python's Life of Brian and has gone on to become a common singalong at public events such as football matches as well as funerals.
Songs 12 March 2020 Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" is a blues standard written by Jimmy Cox in 1923. First popularized by Bessie Smith, the preeminent female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, it was also a big hit for Eric Clapton in 1970, and again in 1992.
Songs 7 March 2020 Town Of Ballybay, The Ballybay (Irish: Béal Átha Beithe, meaning "mouth of the ford of the birch") is a town in County Monaghan, Ireland. It is centered on the crossroads of the R183 and R162 regional roads.
Songs 6 March 2020 Rosin The Bow (a.k.a “Ol’ Rosin the Beau”) The traditional, "Rosin the Bow" (not "Beau") refers to rosin with the bow of a violin, but both "Rosin the Bow" and "Rosin the Beau" cover the same general subject.
Songs 5 March 2020 Belfast Mill This song is a cover/adaptation of "Aragon Mill" a song written by American Si Kahn in 1970 and released on his 1974 album, New Wood, (see the separate listing on the SONGS page for the original "Aragon Hill").
Songs 5 March 2020 Aragon Mill DOWNLOAD THE SONGSHEETAragon Mill (WORD) Aragon Mill (PDF) See a cover/adaptation of this song which was retitled "Belfast Mill" on our SONGS page. Si
Songs 4 February 2020 La complainte du phoque en Alaska La Complaint du Phoque en Alaska was written by Michel Rivard (born September 27, 1951), a singer-songwriter and musician from Quebec.
Songs 3 February 2020 Cover Of The Rolling Stone, The "The Cover of Rolling Stone" is a song written by Shel Silverstein and first recorded in 1972 by American rock group Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show.
Songs 3 February 2020 Rose, The "The Rose" is a classic pop song written by Amanda McBroom and made famous by Bette Midler who recorded it for the soundtrack of the 1979 film The Rose in which it plays during the closing credits.
Songs 2 February 2020 Fire "Fire" is a song written by Bruce Springsteen in 1977 which had its highest profile as a 1978 single release by the Pointer Sisters.
Songs 17 October 2019 Coast To Coast Fever "Coast to Coast Fever" is a song by English/Canadian singer-songwriter David Wiffen. He is assisted on the 1973 "Coast to Coast Fever" album by fellow Canadian folkie Bruce Cockburn, who plays guitar, bass and celeste, and also produced the album.
