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Featured BUG Jam 01/25 1 November 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.
Songs 11 March 2019 When Will We Be Married Traditional as performed by The Waterboys on their album Fisherman's Blues.
Songs 29 February 2016 Mary Mack Mary Mack is a Scottish folk song, a patter song, often sung with a rapid to very rapid tempo, increasing toward the end.
Songs 29 February 2016 Last Saskatchewan Pirate, The The Arrogant Worms, a Canadian comedy music group, wrote this popular song about a down-and-out farmer who takes up piracy on the Saskatchewan River, stealing shipments of grain and farm equipment from ships and barges.
Songs 25 February 2016 Mountain Dew/I’ll Tell Me Ma We're sure to have a grand time with this medley!
Songs 23 February 2016 Skye Boat Song "The Skye Boat Song" is a Scottish folk song, which can be played as a waltz.
Songs 18 February 2016 Mary Ellen Carter, The "The Mary Ellen Carter" is a song written and first recorded by Stan Rogers, intended as an inspirational shanty about triumphing over great odds. It tells the story of a heroic effort to salvage a sunken ship, the Mary Ellen Carter, by some members of her crew.
Songs 31 January 2016 Colors "Colors" is written by American musician, Kira Willey, and is found on her 2006 album Dance for the Sun.
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 2 November 2014 Hielan’ Laddie "Highland Laddie", also known as "Hielan' Laddie", is the name of a Scottish popular folk tune "If thou'lt play me fair play", but as with many old melodies various sets of words can be sung to it, of which Robert Burns's poem "Highland Laddie" is probably the best known.
Songs 8 June 2014 Barrett’s Privateers "Barrett's Privateers" is a modern folk song in the style of a sea shanty, written and performed by Canadian musician Stan Rogers, having been inspired after a song session with the Friends of Fiddler's Green at the Northern Lights Festival Boréal in Sudbury, Ontario.
Songs 11 March 2014 Doon In The Wee Room The Wee Room of the song was in Quin's Bar in Glasgow, Scotland, which no long exists, but the Scotia Pub in Glasgow had a famous Wee Room too.
Songs 9 March 2014 Ballad Of Springhill "The Ballad Of Springhill" is perhaps the most famous of all the Springhill disaster songs, not least because of Peggy Seeger’s and Ewan MacColl’s high profiles in the folk music world.
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 18 March 2013 Mermaid, The "The Mermaid" is a song about a whaler falling in love with a mermaid, but despairs because the mermaid has fish parts below her waist.
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 16 March 2013 Squid-Jiggin’ Ground, The "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground" became Newfoundland's first local hit record when it sold 15,000 copies in 1943.
Songs 19 January 2013 Drunken Sailor "Drunken Sailor" is a sea shanty, also known as "What Shall We Do with a/the Drunken Sailor?"
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 28 February 2012 I'll Tell Me Ma "I'll Tell Me Ma" (also called "The Wind") is a well-known children's song.
Songs 27 February 2012 Citadel Hill "Citadel Hill" is a love song about meeting on Citadel Hill in Halifax, NS.
Songs 23 February 2012 Beer, Beer, Beer "Beer, Beer, Beer", also titled "An Ode to Charlie Mopps - The Man Who Invented Beer" and "Charlie Mopps", is a folk song originating in the British Isles.
Songs 23 February 2012 Whiskey In The Jar "Whiskey in the Jar" is a well-known Irish traditional song, set in the southern mountains of Ireland, often with specific mention of counties Cork and Kerry, as well as Fenit, a village in County Kerry.
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 23 February 2012 Welcome Poor Paddy Home "Welcome Poor Paddy Home" is an Irish folk song written by Charles J. Kickham.
