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 07/24 1 January 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! July 17, 2024 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 08/21 1 January 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! August 21, 2024 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 09/24 1 January 2024 We're On Vacation - No BUG Jam In September But Mark and I will be back before you know it!
Songs 22 February 2012 Brennan On The Moor The most popular Irish highwayman since the second half of the 19th century was William Brennan who is immortalized in the ballad "Brennan On The Moor". Not much is known about him except a lot of legends, but this song has survived.
Songs 19 February 2012 Maids When You’re Young "Maids When You're Young" is a bawdy song which is full of innuendo and risqué allusions. It would have been shocking in its day. It's also known as The Old Man Came Courting Me.
Songs 3 November 2011 Wild Rover, The "The Wild Rover" is the most widely performed Irish song, although its exact origins are unknown.
Songs 12 April 2011 Black Velvet Band "The Black Velvet Band" is a very old song collected from singers in Ireland, Australia, England, Canada and the U.S., describing how a young man is tricked and then sentenced to transportation to Van Diemen's Land, a common punishment in the British Empire during the 19th century.
Songs 12 April 2011 Donald, Where’s Your Troosers? "Donald Where's Your Troosers?" is a comic song about a Scotsman who wears a kilt rather than trousers. It was written by Andy Stewart with music by Neil Grant.
Songs 12 April 2011 Wild Mountain Thyme This is another of those songs which many people believe to be a traditional Scottish song, but like so many songs popularised during the 1960’s folk boom, is actually quite modern, having been copyrighted in 1957!
Songs 26 February 2011 Farewell To Nova Scotia "Farewell to Nova Scotia" is a popular folk song from Nova Scotia of unknown authorship.
