Featured 2021-01 1 January 2021 BUG PyJAMa Jam January 20, 2021 Join Sue and Mark for an evening of ukulele revelry, songs, and laughter! It’s FREE and you don’t need to be any good. This is the kind of BUG you WANT to catch!
Featured 2021-02 1 January 2021 BUG "Love Me, Love Me Not" PyJAMa Jam February 17, 2021 Songs about falling in love, falling out of love, good times, bad times...country, blues, soul, pop - we'll sing it all!
Featured 2021-03 1 January 2021 BUG "Kitchen Party" PyJAMa Jam March 17, 2021 Enjoy some fine tunes, shenanigans, and a wee dram to ward off the last chill of winter! Sure we'll have a whale of a time!
Songs 7 January 2021 Crawl, The "The Crawl" by Spirit of the West - the quintessential drinking song. This song, from their 1986 album "Tripping Up The Stairs", tells the story of the North Shore Pub Crawl in Vancouver BC. The Crawl was an enduring fan favourite at the band's concerts.
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 1 March 2019 Grey Foggy Day Eddie Coffey is a legendary Newfoundland songwriter-entertainer who has penned some of the province's most well-loved songs including the anthemic, Grey Foggy Day.
Songs 3 March 2018 Old Dun Cow Caught Fire, The The Old Dun Cow Caught Fire is a music hall song written by Harry Wincott in 1893 (oft described as the "King of Comic Song") who wrote many famous tunes but was paid so little for his work that he died a poor man in 1947 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Yeovil.
Songs 28 March 2017 Treat You Better Shawn Mendes was born in Toronto and raised in Pickering, a suburb of the city.
Songs 3 March 2017 Leaving of Liverpool, The "(The) Leaving of Liverpool", also known as "Fare Thee Well, My Own True Love", is a folksong. Folklorists classify it as a lyric lament, and it was also used as a sea shanty, especially at the capstan.
Songs 21 February 2017 Bonnie Banks O’ Loch Lomond, The "The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond", or simply "Loch Lomond" for short, is a well-known traditional Scottish song (Roud No. 9598) first published in 1841 in Vocal Melodies of Scotland.
Songs 25 February 2016 Mountain Dew/I’ll Tell Me Ma We're sure to have a grand time with this medley!
Songs 31 December 2015 Fisherman’s Blues Fisherman's Blues is a 1988 album by The Waterboys. The album marked a change in the band's sound, with them abandoning their earlier grandiose rock sound for a mixture of traditional Irish music, traditional Scottish music, country music, and rock and roll.
Songs 7 March 2015 By The Glow Of The Kerosene Light "By The Glow Of The Kerosene Light" was written by Wince Coles and recorded by Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers in 1993.
Songs 8 January 2015 Leezy Lindsay Lizie Lindsay is Child ballad 226 (Roud 94), existing in several variants (also known as "Lizzie Lindsay" or "Leezie Lindsay").
Songs 11 March 2014 Doon In The Wee Room There is in the Glasgow folk scene a reluctance to believe that the writer of the Wee Room song has been identified. People seem to prefer the idea of an unknown composer, so they can feel the song in some way belongs to them, to the streets of the city.
Songs 9 March 2014 Maid on the Shore, The Stan Rogers sang "Maid on the Shore" on his album "Fogarty's Cove", released 1977.
Songs 2 March 2014 Hanging Johnny "Hanging Johnny" was one of the best and most popular halyard shanties.
Songs 16 March 2013 Lukey’s Boat "Lukey's Boat" is a comical song widely sung on the east coast of Newfoundland and collected by Elisabeth Greenleaf in 1929 in Twillingate, Nfld.
Songs 22 December 2012 Dirty Old Town "Dirty Old Town" is an English song written by Ewan MacColl in 1949 that was made popular by The Dubliners and has been recorded by many others.
Songs 5 September 2012 Hard, Ain't It Hard Traditional - in many collections including Old Time Religion and Volume 1 of The Asch Recordings
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 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 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.
