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 9 May 2025 Tide Is High, The / A Message to You Rudy "The Tide Is High" was written by John Holt in 1967 , and covered by Blondie 1980, and "A Message To You Rudy" written by Dandy Livingstone also in 1967, and covered by The Specials 1979.
Songs 29 March 2025 A Little Good News "A Little Good News" is a song recorded by Canadian recording artist Anne Murray, released in 1983 as the lead single from her album of the same name.
Songs 27 February 2025 A Place In The Choir American folk singer, Bill Staines, wrote A Place in the Choir (also known as The Animal Song, and All God’s Critters). He also made it into a children’s book. It is a popular song in Ireland and is often thought of as Irish.
Songs 2 February 2025 I Won't Back Down "I Won't Back Down" is a song by American rock musician Tom Petty. It was released in April 1989 as the lead single from his first solo album, Full Moon Fever. The song was co-written by Petty and Jeff Lynne, his writing partner for the album.
Songs 30 December 2024 Lock-Keeper Canadian Singer-songwriter, Stan Rogers, wrote this song and recorded it on his 1984 album, From Fresh Water.
Songs 28 November 2024 Last Christmas "Last Christmas" is a song by English pop duo Wham!. Written and produced by George Michael, it was released on December 3, 1984.
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 30 June 2024 Suddenly Last Summer "Suddenly Last Summer" is a new wave song written by Martha Davis and recorded by her new wave band The Motels, released as the lead single from their fourth album, Little Robbers (1983).
Songs 28 April 2024 Neutron Dance "Neutron Dance" is a song written by Allee Willis and Danny Sembello which was introduced by The Pointer Sisters on their 1983 album "Break Out".
Songs 29 March 2024 Ça fait rire les oiseaux "Ça fait rire les oiseaux" was released by La Compagnie Créole in 1986 and is one of their most popular songs. Words by Daniel Vangarde and music by Jean Kluger.
Songs 3 February 2024 La Isla Bonita "La Isla Bonita" ("The Beautiful Island") is a song by American singer Madonna from her third studio album True Blue (1986).
Songs 29 January 2024 All That Heaven Will Allow “All That Heaven Will Allow” is a song written by Bruce Springsteen and released on his 1987 album Tunnel Of Love.
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 27 January 2024 Islands In The Stream "Islands in the Stream" was recorded by American country music artists Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. It was released in August 1983 as the first single from Rogers's fifteenth studio album Eyes That See in the Dark. The Bee Gees released a live version in 1998 and a studio version in 2001.
Songs 6 December 2023 Santa Lost A Ho "Santa Lost A Ho" is an entertaining holiday song written and performed by The Christmas Jug Band in 1987.
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 21 November 2023 My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year) Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, composer, and actress, over a career spanning seven decades.
Songs 4 February 2023 Love Is The Seventh Wave "Love Is the Seventh Wave" is a hit single from Sting's 1985 solo debut album The Dream of the Blue Turtles. It was released as the album's second single in the UK, and the third single in the US.
Songs 30 July 2021 Abracadabra "Abracadabra" is a song by American rock group Steve Miller Band, written by Steve Miller. The song was released as the first single from the 1982 album of the same name the same year.
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 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 15 May 2020 Under A Stormy Sky "Under A Stormy Sky" is by Daniel Lanois and appears on his debut album Acadie (1989) and on the live album Rockets (2004). Acadie was named the 20th greatest Canadian album of all time in Bob Mersereau's 2007 book The Top 100 Canadian Albums.
Songs 14 May 2020 Sharp Dressed Man "Sharp Dressed Man" is a song written and performed by ZZ Top from their 1983 album Eliminator.
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.
