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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!

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BUG Jam 05/24 1 January 2024

BUG "Dance Party" Jam Live @ Red Bird! May 15, 2024

It's time for a May ukulele dance party and you're invited! Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! Don't worry - no dancing required just enthusiastic uke playing and singing! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.

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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.

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BUG Jam 07/24 1 January 2024

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! July 17, 2024

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BUG Jam 08/21 1 January 2024

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! August 21, 2024

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BUG Jam 09/24 1 January 2024

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! September 18, 2024

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BUG Jam 10/24 1 January 2024

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! October 16, 2024

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BUG Jam 11/24 1 January 2024

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! November 20, 2024

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BUG Jam 12/24 1 January 2024

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! December 18, 2024

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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

DOWNLOAD THE SONGSHEETThe Mull River Shuffle (WORD) The Mull River Shuffle (PDF) TO PLAY ALONG IN THE SAME KEY IN GCEA TUNING, YOU'D HAVE TO

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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 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 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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.