Featured BUG Jam Videos 17 January 2025 2025 - January BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on January 15, 2025, 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.
Featured BUG Jams & Events 1 January 2025 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 02/25 1 January 2025 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 03/25 1 January 2025 BUG Kitchen Party Jam Live @ Red Bird! March 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 04/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! April 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 05/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! May 21, 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 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 Jam 07/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! 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 23 February 2012 I'se the B'y "I'se The B'y" (also I's The Bye) is a traditional Newfoundland folk song/ballad.
Songs 9 February 2012 Bread and Butter "Bread and Butter" is a 1964 song by The Newbeats. Written by Larry Parks and Jay Turnbow, "Bread and Butter" was the group's first and most popular hit. (Wikipedia)
Songs 9 February 2012 Iko Iko “Iko! Iko! Jock-a-mo Fee No Nay” is a phrase that will, for many, instantly bring to mind the iconic 1965 number by The Dixie Cups.
Songs 5 February 2012 Worried Man Blues "Worried Man Blues" is a folk song in the roots music repertoire. It is catalogued as Roud Folk Song Index No. 4753.
Songs 25 January 2012 Happy Together "Happy Together" is a 1967 song from The Turtles' album of the same name. Released in February 1967, the song knocked The Beatles' "Penny Lane" out of the number one slot for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the group's only chart-topper in the United States.
Songs 25 January 2012 Side By Side "Side by Side" is a popular song with lyrics by Gus Kahn and music by Harry M. Woods written in 1927, now considered a standard. It has been recorded by many artists, but is probably best known in a 1953 recording by Kay Starr. (Wikipedia)
Songs 15 January 2012 BUG Medley This BUG Medley was created for and first performed at the Ottawa Folklore Centre's 35th Anniversary Event in 2011.
Songs 11 November 2011 I'll Be There For You "I'll Be There for You" is a song recorded by the American pop rock duo The Rembrandts. It is best known as the theme song to the American sitcom Friends, which premiered during 1994 and ended in 2004. The song was also released as the first single from the group's third studio album LP.
Songs 31 October 2011 Song For A Winter's Night "Song for a Winter's Night" is a song written by Gordon Lightfoot, and first recorded for his 1967 album, The Way I Feel. Lightfoot actually recorded two versions of the song; the second appears on the 1975 album Gord's Gold, a greatest hits compilation on which other re-recordings also appeared.
Songs 31 October 2011 It's A Heartache "It's a Heartache" is a song recorded by Welsh singer Bonnie Tyler for her second studio album, Natural Force (1978). The song was recorded in the same year by Juice Newton as a standalone single.
Songs 23 September 2011 Try To Remember "Try to Remember" was originally sung by Jerry Orbach in the Original Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks. The song made the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart three times in 1965 in versions by Ed Ames, Roger Williams, Barry McGuire, The Kingston Trio, The Sandpipers, and The Brothers Four.
Songs 22 September 2011 Lion Sleeps Tonight, The "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", also known as "Wimoweh", "Wimba Way" or "Awimbawe", is a song written and recorded originally by Solomon Linda with the Evening Birds for the South African Gallo Record Company in 1939, under the title "Mbube".
Songs 5 September 2011 Zamboni Machine "Zamboni Machine" was written by Martin Zellar in 1990 and recorded by his band, Gear Daddies, a Minnesota-based country-rock band.
Songs 22 August 2011 Another Saturday Night "Another Saturday Night" is the title of a 1963 hit single by Sam Cooke from the album Ain't That Good News. It reached number ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and was number one on the R&B chart for a single week.
Songs 22 August 2011 Something To Sing About "Something to Sing About" is a patriotic song written by American folk singer Oscar Brand that sings the praises of the many different regions of Canada.
Songs 22 August 2011 I'll Fly Away "I'll Fly Away", is a hymn written in 1929 by Albert E. Brumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company in a collection titled Wonderful Message. Brumley's writing was influenced in part by an older secular ballad.
Songs 20 August 2011 V'la l'bon vent "V'là l'bon vent" is a folksong on the theme of the 'trois canards' or three ducks, of which there are some 100 variants.
Songs 1 July 2011 Act Naturally "Act Naturally" is a song written by Johnny Russell and Voni Morrison, originally recorded by Buck Owens and the Buckaroos, whose version reached number 1 on the Billboard Country Singles chart in 1963, his first chart-topper.
Songs 7 June 2011 You Are My Sunshine "You Are My Sunshine" is a popular song first recorded in 1939. Jimmie Davis and the Charles Mitchell Orchestra recorded a version in 1939, and it has been declared one of the state songs of Louisiana because of its association with Davis, a country music singer and former governor of the state.
Songs 4 June 2011 This Little Light "This Little Light of Mine" is a gospel song with lyrics by Avis Burgeson Christiansen and a tune written by composer and teacher Harry Dixon Loes (1895–1965) c. 1920. The song has since entered the folk tradition, first being collected by John Lomax in 1939.
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.
Songs 4 June 2011 Eight Days A Week "Eight Days a Week" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles. It was written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon based on McCartney's original idea.
Songs 4 June 2011 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy) The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" is a song by folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel, appearing on their 1966 album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme.
Songs 29 April 2011 Waltzing Matilda "Waltzing Matilda" is Australia's best-known bush ballad, and has been described as the country's "unofficial national anthem".