Featured BUG Jams & Events 2 March 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 05/24 1 January 2024 BUG "Dance Party" Jam Live @ Red Bird! May 15, 2024 It's a dance party theme - 'cuz who doesn't dance around the Maypole in May! Any songs with the word "dance" in them, or any songs that are your favourites to dance to! Don't worry - no dancing required just enthusiastic uke playing and singing! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 06/24 1 January 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! June 19, 2024 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN! And you don’t need to be any good.
Songs 21 June 2023 Keep on the Sunny Side "Keep On the Sunny Side" is a popular American song originally written in 1899 by Ada Blenkhorn (1858–1927) with music by J. Howard Entwisle (1866–1903). The song was popularized in a 1928 recording by the Carter Family.
Songs 23 December 2017 Pride (In The Name Of Love) "Pride (In the Name of Love)" is a song written and recorded by Bono and his Irish rock band U2 in 1984.
Songs 4 November 2017 Calendar Girl "Calendar Girl" is a song by Neil Sedaka. The music was composed by Sedaka and the lyrics by Howard Greenfield. Recorded in 1960 and released in 1961, it was a Top-5 hit single for Sedaka, peaking at #4 on the US charts and #1 on the Canadian and Japanese charts.
Songs 4 November 2017 Tin Pan Alley Medley Tin Pan Alley was the collection of New York City music publishers and songwriters, in a specific area of Manhattan, who dominated the popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
Songs 6 April 2017 Best Day Of My Life "Best Day of My Life" is a song by American indie rock band American Authors. The song was written by band members Zac Barnett, Dave Rublin, Matt Sanchez, and James Adam Shelley, along with producers Aaron Accetta and Shep Goodman.
Songs 24 February 2017 McNamara's Band "McNamara's Band" (originally "MacNamara's Band") is a popular song composed in 1889 by Shamus O'Connor (music) and John J. Stamford (lyrics).
Songs 30 July 2016 Radioactive "Radioactive" is a song recorded by American rock band Imagine Dragons for their major-label debut EP Continued Silence and later on their debut studio album, Night Visions (2012), as the opening track.
Songs 2 May 2016 Auprès de ma blonde Traditional song, often attributed to Andre Joiubert du Collet, who was imprisoned during the Holland War (1672 - 1679)
Songs 8 July 2015 Big Girls Don’t Cry "Big Girls Don't Cry" is a song written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio and originally recorded by The Four Seasons.
Songs 3 July 2015 When The Saints Go Marching In The origins of this song are unclear. It apparently evolved in the early 1900s from a number of similarly titled gospel songs, including "When the Saints Are Marching In" (1896) and "When the Saints March In for Crowning" (1908).
Songs 30 June 2015 Downtown "Downtown" is a song composed by Tony Hatch which, as recorded by Petula Clark in 1964, became an international hit, reaching number one in Billboard Hot 100 and number two in UK Singles Chart.
Songs 9 May 2015 Buffalo Gals "Buffalo Gals" is a traditional American song, written and published as "Lubly Fan" in 1844.
Songs 7 April 2015 Can't Take My Eyes Off You "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" is a 1967 song written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio. It was recorded as a single by Frankie Valli.
Songs 29 March 2015 At The Hop "At the Hop" is a rock and roll/doo-wop song written by Artie Singer, John Medora, and David White in 1957, when Danny & the Juniors were still called The Juvenairs.
Songs 29 March 2015 Blue Suede Shoes "Blue Suede Shoes" is a rock-and-roll standard written and first recorded by Carl Perkins in 1955.
Songs 12 January 2015 Marvelous Toy, The "The Marvelous Toy" was written in 1961 by Tom Paxton an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has had a music career spanning more than fifty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Songs 2 July 2014 You, You, You "You, You, You" is a popular song published in 1953. The music was written by Lotar Olias, the original German lyrics by Walter Rothenberg, with English lyrics written by Robert Mellin. The song was a major hit for The Ames Brothers in 1953.
Songs 3 February 2014 Au chant de l'alouette Au Chant de l’alouette is a bouncing call and response song that describes a young girl’s encounter with an talking Lark while out picking berries. After accidentally stepping on the lark, the young girl is chastised by the bird.
Songs 1 February 2014 Build Me Up Buttercup "Build Me Up Buttercup" is a song written by Mike d'Abo and Tony Macaulay, and released by The Foundations in 1968 with Colin Young singing lead vocals. Young had replaced Clem Curtis during 1968 and this was the first Foundations hit on which he sang.
Songs 5 January 2014 Bye Bye Love "Bye Bye Love" is a popular song written by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant and published in 1957. It is best known in a debut recording by the Everly Brothers.
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 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 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 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.
