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 Orchestra Fun with Mark & Sue! January 24, 2026 Have you always wanted to be part of a ukulele orchestra?
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 07/03/26 1 January 2026 BUG is back at "In From The Cold" - March 7, 2026! This has been a favourite BUG outing since 2011!
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 27 April 2016 Sweet City Woman The Stampeders are a Canadian rock trio, consisting of Rich Dodson, Ronnie King, and Kim Berly. In 1971 they had a hit with "Sweet City Woman," which won Best Single at the Juno Awards, reached #1 on the RPM magazine charts, and #8 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Songs 27 April 2016 Black Water "Black Water" is a song recorded by the American music group The Doobie Brothers from their 1974 album "What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits".
Songs 23 April 2016 Knock Three Times "Knock Three Times" is a popular song written by L. Russell Brown and Irwin Levine, and recorded by Tony Orlando and Dawn in 1970.
Songs 12 April 2016 Your Mama Don't Dance "Your Mama Don't Dance" is a 1972 hit song by the rock duo Loggins and Messina.
Songs 3 April 2016 Top Of The World "Top of the World" is a 1972 song written and composed by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis.
Songs 28 March 2016 Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" is a song by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando. It was written by Irwin Levine and L. Russell Brown. It was a worldwide hit for the group in 1973.
Songs 26 March 2016 My Ding-A-Ling "My Ding-a-Ling" is the title of a novelty song written and recorded by Dave Bartholomew. "My Ding-a-Ling" was originally recorded by Dave Bartholomew in 1952 for King Records. When Bartholomew moved to Imperial Records, he re-recorded the song under the new title, "Little Girl Sing Ting-a-Ling".
Songs 8 March 2016 Big Yellow Taxi “Big Yellow Taxi” is a song written, composed, and originally recorded by Joni Mitchell in 1970, and originally released on her album Ladies of the Canyon.
Songs 3 March 2016 Paradise "Paradise" is a song written by John Prine for his father, and recorded for his 1971 debut album, John Prine.
Songs 18 February 2016 Mary Ellen Carter, The "The Mary Ellen Carter" is a song written and first recorded by Stan Rogers, intended as an inspirational shanty about triumphing over great odds. It tells the story of a heroic effort to salvage a sunken ship, the Mary Ellen Carter, by some members of her crew.
Songs 31 January 2016 Crocodile Rock "Crocodile Rock" is a song written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin, and recorded in summer 1972 at the Château d'Hérouville studio in France.
Songs 6 January 2016 Girls Just Wanna Have Fun "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" was written by Robert Hazard, who only recorded a demo of it in 1979. Robert Hazard wrote this song from a male point of view. Cyndi Lauper changed the lyrics with Hazard's approval.
Songs 27 December 2015 Bette Davis Eyes Bette Davis Eyes is a song written by Donna Weiss and Jackie DeShannon, and made popular by American singer Kim Carnes.
Songs 30 October 2015 Coat Of Many Colors "Coat of Many Colors" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer Dolly Parton, which has been described on a number of occasions as her favorite song she has written.
Songs 28 October 2015 Back Home Again "Back Home Again" is the title of a popular song written and performed by the American singer-songwriter John Denver.
Songs 28 October 2015 Ravishing Ruby "Ravishing Ruby" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Tom T. Hall, released in April 1973.
Songs 27 October 2015 Forty-Five Years Stan Rogers’s “45 Years” (or “Forty-Five Years”) is often considered to be one of the greatest love songs ever written, and certainly in the Canadian folk tradition
Songs 23 October 2015 Take Me Home, Country Roads "Take Me Home, Country Roads" is a song written by Bill Danoff, Taffy Nivert and John Denver that was derived from a poem written in a letter to them by their friend, John Albert Fitzgerald who was residing in West Virginia at the time.
Songs 2 June 2015 Comes A Time Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young's "Comes A Time" was written in 1977 and released in 1978 on his ninth studio album of the same name.
Songs 8 May 2015 Cruel To Be Kind "Cruel to Be Kind" is a 1979 single by Nick Lowe, co-written by Lowe and his former Brinsley Schwarz bandmate Ian Gomm, that peaked at No. 12 in both the UK and U.S. charts that summer.
Songs 29 April 2015 Fish And Whistle "Fish And Whistle" is a song written by American folk singer-songwriter John Prine and released in 1978 on his fifth album, Bruised Orange.
Songs 25 April 2015 Maggie May "Maggie May" is a song co-written by singer Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton, and recorded by Rod Stewart in 1970 for his album Every Picture Tells a Story, released in 1971.
Songs 3 April 2015 Rock ‘n’ Roll Song Paul Valdemar Horsdal (born 1 September 1945 in Ottawa, Ontario), commonly known as Valdy, is a Canadian folk and country musician whose solo career began in the early 1970s.
Songs 27 March 2015 Pushbike Song, The "The Pushbike Song" is a song originally recorded by Australian band The Mixtures and released in 1970. The single was a chart success, reaching numbers one and two in the Australian and UK charts respectively. It has subsequently been covered by various artists.
