Featured BUG Jam Videos 17 April 2025 2025 - April BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on April 16, 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 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 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 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 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 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 10 February 2018 If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked A Cake "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake" is a popular song written by Al Hoffman, Bob Merrill, and Clem Watts and published in 1950.
Songs 8 February 2018 Own Heart's Delight "My Own Heart's Delight" was written by Canadian singer-songwriter Ian Tyson for his 1987 album, Cowboyography.
Songs 8 February 2018 Big River "Big River" is a song written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash. Released as a single by Sun Records in 1958, it went as high as #4 on the Billboard country music charts and stayed on the charts for 14 weeks.
Songs 6 February 2018 Perfect "Perfect" is a song by English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran from his third studio album released in September 2017. In an interview with Zane Lowe, Sheeran said that he needed to write the best love song of his career with "Perfect".
Songs 3 February 2018 Goody Goody "Goody Goody" is a 1936 popular song composed by Matty Malneck, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
Songs 28 January 2018 Wildflowers "Wildflowers" is a popular song by Tom Petty, the opening track from the eponymous 1994 album.
Songs 28 January 2018 Lost Together "Lost Together" was written by Greg Keelor for Blue Rodeo's 1992 album of the same name.
Songs 20 January 2018 Hello In There "Hello In There" is from John Prine's debut album, "John Prine" (1971).
Songs 17 November 2017 Red Canvas Canoe This is for all you canoeists out there. I hope you enjoy this sweet, simple song sung by Lorraine McDonald. It comes from the CD Canoesongs Voume II.
Songs 8 May 2016 I Think We're Alone Now "I Think We're Alone Now" is a song written and composed by Ritchie Cordell in 1966 that was the title selection from a same-named album released by the American recording artists Tommy James and the Shondells in 1967.
Songs 27 April 2016 Complicated "Complicated" is the debut single by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne, released in 2002 from her debut album, Let Go.
Songs 3 April 2016 Top Of The World "Top of the World" is a 1972 song written and composed by Richard Carpenter and John Bettis.
Songs 31 December 2015 Sweet Child O' Mine "Sweet Child O' Mine" is a song by the American rock band Guns N' Roses, featured on their debut studio album, Appetite for Destruction (1987).
Songs 27 December 2015 Time After Time "Time After Time" is the second single by American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper from her debut studio album, She's So Unusual (1983), with Rob Hyman contributing backing vocals.
Songs 2 July 2015 It's My Party "It's My Party" is a pop song recorded by multiple artists since the 1960s. In 1963, American singer Lesley Gore's version hit #1 on the pop and rhythm and blues charts in the United States. It was the first hit single for producer Quincy Jones.
Songs 10 February 2014 Chapel Of Love "Chapel of Love" is a song written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector, and made famous by The Dixie Cups in 1964, spending three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Songs 21 January 2014 Accidentally In Love "Accidentally in Love" is a song written and recorded by Counting Crows. The song was written for the opening scene of the 2004 DreamWorks animated film Shrek 2 and appears on the movie's soundtrack as the opening track.
Songs 4 November 2012 Heart Of Gold "Heart of Gold" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young. Released from the 1972 album Harvest, it is so far Young's only U.S. No. 1 single.
Songs 6 May 2012 Letter, The "The Letter" is a song written by Wayne Carson that was first recorded by the American rock band The Box Tops in 1967.
Songs 7 February 2012 A Mess of Blues "A Mess Of Blues" is a song written by Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman that was originally recorded by Elvis Presley for RCA Records in 1960, reaching number 32 in the US charts and number 2 in the UK charts.
Songs 10 November 2011 Blame It On The Bossa Nova "Blame It on the Bossa Nova" is a song written by Cynthia Weil (lyrics) and Barry Mann which was a 1963 hit single for Eydie Gormé, reaching number 7 on the Hot 100 in Billboard in March 1963. The Bossa Nova is a Brazilian music style in vogue in the United States from the late 1950s.
Songs 24 July 2011 Hey Soul Sister "Hey, Soul Sister" is a song by the US rock band Train. It was written by lead singer Patrick Monahan, Amund Bjørklund, and Espen Lind. It was released as the lead single from the band's fifth studio album, Save Me, San Francisco (2009).
