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BUG Jam 12/23 5 November 2023

BUG’s Yulekulele Jam! Live @ Red Bird! December 20, 2023

Don your gay apparel and festive hats and join us for an evening of seasonal songs and revelry! Yule enjoy yours-elves! It's FREE and you don’t need to be any good.

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BUG Jam 01/24 5 November 2023

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! January 17, 2024

Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FREE and you don’t need to be any good.

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BUG Jam 02/24 5 November 2023

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! February 21, 2024

WHEN:  Wednesday February 21, 2024 TIME:  7:30 to 9:45ish p.m. WHERE:   Red Bird Live Music, 1165 Bank Street, one block south of

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bug jam 09/03/24 5 November 2023

BUG is back at "In From The Cold" - March 9, 2024!

This has been a favourite BUG outing since 2011 and we’re so happy to be getting back there after the Covid hiatus!

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BUG Jams & Events 5 November 2023

BUG Kitchen Party Jam Live @ Red Bird! March 20, 2024

Join us for some fine tunes, shenanigans, and a wee tipple to ward off the last chill of winter! Sure we'll have a whale of a time! It's FREE and ye dunna need to be any good.

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BUG Jam 04/20 5 November 2023

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! April 17, 2024

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BUG Jam 05/24 5 November 2023

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! May 15, 2024

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BUG Jam 06/24 5 November 2023

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! June 19, 2024

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BUG Jam 07/24 5 November 2023

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! July 17, 2024

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BUG Jam 08/21 5 November 2023

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! August 21, 2024

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BUG Jam 09/24 5 November 2023

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! September 18, 2024

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BUG Jam 10/24 5 November 2023

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! October 16, 2024

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BUG Jam 11/24 5 November 2023

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! November 20, 2024

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BUG Jam 12/24 5 November 2023

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! December 18, 2024

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Songs 5 March 2020

Belfast Mill

This song is a cover/adaptation of "Aragon Mill" a song written by American Si Kahn in 1970 and released on his 1974 album, New Wood, (see the separate listing on the SONGS page for the original "Aragon Hill").

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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 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.

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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 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 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 30 April 2016

Ooh La La

"Ooh La La" is a 1973 song by the band Faces, written by Ronnie Lane and Ronnie Wood. It was the title song for the band's last studio album, Ooh La La.

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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 17 February 2016

Fiddler's Green

Fiddler's Green is a legendary supposed afterlife, where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing, and dancers who never tire. In 19th-century maritime folklore it was a kind of afterlife for sailors who have served at least 50 years at sea.

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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.

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Songs 9 March 2014

Maid on the Shore, The

Stan Rogers sang "Maid on the Shore" on his album "Fogarty's Cove", released 1977.