Featured BUG Jams & Events 23 December 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 23 December 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.
Featured BUG Jams & Events 23 December 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! February 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 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.
Songs 20 March 2016 San Francisco Bay Blues "San Francisco Bay Blues" is an American folk song and is generally considered to be the most famous composition by Jesse Fuller.
Songs 23 June 2015 House Of The Rising Sun "The House of the Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans; many versions also urge a sibling to avoid the same fate.
Songs 9 November 2014 Me And Bobby McGee "Me And Bobby McGee" was written by Kris Kristofferson and first recorded by Roger Miller. Roger Miller was the first artist to have a hit with the song, peaking with it at No. 12 on the US country chart in 1969.
Songs 31 October 2014 Takin' Care of Business "Takin' Care of Business" is a song written by Randy Bachman and first recorded by Canadian rock group Bachman–Turner Overdrive (BTO) for their 1973 album Bachman–Turner Overdrive II.
Songs 2 September 2013 We're Going To Be Friends "We're Going to Be Friends" is a 2002 song by the American alternative rock band White Stripes from their album White Blood Cells.
Songs 6 April 2013 Hotel Yorba "Hotel Yorba" is the lead single from the album White Blood Cells by garage rock band The White Stripes, and it was their first single to be released commercially. It was released in November 2001.
Songs 22 December 2012 Up On Cripple Creek "Up on Cripple Creek" is the fifth song on the The Band's eponymous second album, The Band. It was released as a single in November 1969 and reached #25 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Songs 10 November 2012 Mr. Spaceman "Mr. Spaceman" is a song by the American rock band the Byrds and was the third track on their 1966 album, Fifth Dimension. It was released as the third single from the album in September 1966, reaching number 36 on the Billboard Hot 100, but failing to chart in the United Kingdom.
Songs 24 October 2012 Helpless "Helpless" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young, recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) on their 1970 album Déjà Vu.
Songs 19 October 2012 My Back Pages "My Back Pages" is a song written by Bob Dylan and included on his 1964 album Another Side of Bob Dylan.
Songs 19 October 2012 Mr. Tambourine Man "Mr. Tambourine Man" is a song written by Bob Dylan, released as the first track of the acoustic side of his March 1965 album Bringing It All Back Home. The song has been performed and recorded by many artists, including The Byrds.
Songs 7 July 2012 As Tears Go By "As Tears Go By" is a song written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham in 1964. Oldham subsequently gave the ballad (a format that the Stones were not yet known for) to Faithfull, then 17, for her to record as a B-side.
Songs 9 June 2012 Weight, The "The Weight" is a song originally by the Canadian-American group The Band that was released in 1968; written by The Band member Robbie Robertson.
Songs 9 June 2012 Born to be Wild "Born to Be Wild" was released by Steppenwolf in 1968. It was the band's third single off their 1968 debut album Steppenwolf and became their most successful single, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts.
Songs 6 May 2012 Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is a song by The Band, recorded in 1969 and released on their eponymous second album.
Songs 20 April 2012 Evil Ways "Evil Ways" is a song made famous by the band Santana from their 1969 album, Santana. It was written by Clarence "Sonny" Henry and originally recorded by jazz percussionist Willie Bobo on his 1967 album, Bobo Motion.
Songs 27 January 2012 House Is Rockin', The "The House is Rockin'" is the first track of In Step, Stevie Ray Vaughan's fourth and final studio album with Double Trouble released in 1989.
Songs 11 November 2011 They're Red Hot "They're Red Hot" is a song originally performed and written by blues musician Robert Johnson and released in July 1937.
Songs 1 October 2011 Turn! Turn! Turn! Turn! Turn! Turn!", sometimes known as "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)", is a song written by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s.
Songs 22 August 2011 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1967 in Woodstock, New York, during the self-imposed exile from public appearances that followed his July 29, 1966 motorcycle accident.
Songs 16 August 2011 Cum On Feel The Noize "Cum On Feel the Noize" is a song by the English rock band Slade, which was released in 1973 as a non-album single.
Songs 7 August 2011 Johnny B. Goode "Johnny B. Goode" is a 1958 rock-and-roll song written and first recorded by Chuck Berry. The song was a major hit among both black and white audiences, peaking at number 2 on Billboard magazine's Hot R&B Sides chart and number 8 on its Hot 100 chart.
Songs 4 June 2011 With A Little Help From My Friends "With a Little Help from My Friends" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It was written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, and intended as the album's featured vocal for drummer Ringo Starr.
