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Photos 17 April 2025

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird April 2025

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Songs 11 March 2019

When Will We Be Married

Traditional as performed by The Waterboys on their album Fisherman's Blues.

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Songs 8 March 2018

Ballad of Bowser MacRae

From David Francey's album "Right of Passage" 2007, which won a 2008 Juno award for best Roots/Traditional album! David says: "One of the most interesting people I have met on my travels, Greg (Bowser) MacRae was the third mate on the MV Algoville" - a Lake Boat.

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Songs 4 March 2018

When You And I Were Young Maggie Blues

"When You And I Were Young, Maggie" has been re-scored as "When You and I Were Young, Maggie Blues", by Jack Frost and Jimmy McHugh.

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Songs 2 March 2018

Mull River Shuffle, The

"Mull River Shuffle" is a Canadian song written by Donald Angus Beaton, J.S. Skinner, Jimmy Rankin, and Wilfred Gillis, and recorded by The Rankin Family for their album, North Country, released in 1993.

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Songs 24 February 2018

When You and I Were Young, Maggie

"When You and I Were Young, Maggie" is a famous folk song, popular song and standard. In 2005, the song was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.

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Songs 3 March 2017

Leaving of Liverpool, The

"(The) Leaving of Liverpool", also known as "Fare Thee Well, My Own True Love", is a folksong. Folklorists classify it as a lyric lament, and it was also used as a sea shanty, especially at the capstan.

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Songs 28 February 2017

Peein’ In The Snow

Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers are a folk music and comedy act formed in Glovertown, NL, in 1983, with Kevin Blackmore (vocals, mandolin, fiddle, guitar), Wayne Chaulk (vocals, guitar, mandolin), and Ray Johnson (vocals, accordion, fiddle).

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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).

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Songs 21 February 2017

Bonnie Banks O’ Loch Lomond, The

"The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond", or simply "Loch Lomond" for short, is a well-known traditional Scottish song (Roud No. 9598) first published in 1841 in Vocal Melodies of Scotland.

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Songs 19 February 2017

Song For The Mira

"Song For The Mira" is a contemporary folk song in the Celtic style, written in 1973 by Allister MacGillivray, a songwriter, guitarist, folklorist, author, record producer, born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia in 1948.

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Songs 16 February 2017

Carrickfergus

"Carrickfergus" is an Irish folk song, named after the town of Carrickfergus in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Songs 3 November 2016

Seven Old Ladies (Got Stuck In A Lavatory)

"What Can the Matter Be?", also known as "Johnny's So Long at the Fair" is a traditional nursery rhyme that can be traced back as far as the 1770s in England. There are several variations on its lyrics.

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Songs 5 June 2016

Saltwater Joys

Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers is the name of a musical and comedy trio from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, which is composed of Kevin Blackmore ("Buddy Wasisname"), Wayne Chaulk, and Ray Johnson ("The Other Fellers").

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Songs 1 June 2016

Mummers’ Dance, The

"The Mummers' Dance" is a single from the album The Book of Secrets in 1997. The song was a surprise hit in the United States, reaching #3 in the Adult Top 40, #17 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and #18 on The Billboard Hot 100.

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Songs 2 April 2016

Working Man

Rita MacNeil, CM, ONS (May 28, 1944 – April 16, 2013) was a Canadian singer from the community of Big Pond on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island.

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Songs 4 March 2016

When I Am King

Great Big Sea was a Canadian folk rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanties, which draw from the island's 500-year-old Irish, Scottish, and Cornish heritage.

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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.

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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.

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Songs 25 February 2016

Mountain Dew/I’ll Tell Me Ma

We're sure to have a grand time with this medley!

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Songs 23 February 2016

Skye Boat Song

"The Skye Boat Song" is a Scottish folk song, which can be played as a waltz.

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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.

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Songs 27 October 2015

Forty-Five Years

Stan Rogers’s “45 Years” (or “Forty-Five Years”) is often considered to be one of the greatest love songs ever written, and certainly in the Canadian folk tradition

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Songs 1 June 2015

Crawl, The

"The Crawl" by Spirit of the West - the quintessential drinking song. This song, from their 1986 album "Tripping Up The Stairs", tells the story of the North Shore Pub Crawl in Vancouver BC. The Crawl was an enduring fan favourite at the band's concerts.

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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.