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 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! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured 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.
BUG Jam 03/21 17 March 2021 2021 - March BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here’s the video of our live virtual BUG "Kitchen Party" PyJAMa Jam on March 17! You can play along with us as often as you’d like from the comfort of your home and at your own speed. Stay in your pyjamas and slippers and join us! This is the BUG you WANT to catch!
BUG Jam 03/21 17 March 2021 BUG "Kitchen Party" PyJAMa Jam March 17, 2021 On St. Paddy’s Day, join Sue and Mark 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!
Songs 12 January 2021 Wellerman (Soon May The Wellerman Come) Traditional New Zealand folksong that dates back to the mid-19th century
Songs 7 March 2020 Town Of Ballybay, The Ballybay (Irish: Béal Átha Beithe, meaning "mouth of the ford of the birch") is a town in County Monaghan, Ireland. It is centered on the crossroads of the R183 and R162 regional roads.
Songs 6 March 2020 I Know My Love "I Know My Love" is a traditional Irish folk song, which was first collected by Herbert Hughes and published by Boosey & Hawkes in 1909, in Volume 1 of "Irish Country Songs" - although the song is likely to be considerably older than that.
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.
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).
Songs 25 February 2016 Mountain Dew/I’ll Tell Me Ma We're sure to have a grand time with this medley!
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 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 28 February 2012 Molly Malone (Cockles and Mussels) "Molly Malone" (also known as "Cockles and Mussels" or "In Dublin's Fair City") is a popular song set in Dublin, Ireland, which has become the unofficial anthem of Dublin City.
Songs 24 February 2012 Galway Girl, The "Galway Girl" or "The Galway Girl" is a song written by Steve Earle and recorded with Irish musician Sharon Shannon, which was featured on Earle's 2000 album Transcendental Blues.
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 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 31 October 2011 Gypsy Rover, The The Whistling Gypsy, sometimes known simply as The Gypsy Rover, is a well-known ballad composed and copyrighted by Dublin songwriter Leo Maguire in the 1950s.
Songs 23 April 2011 That's An Irish Lullaby (Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral) "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)" is a classic Irish-American song originally written in 1913 by composer James Royce Shannon (1881–1946) for the Tin Pan Alley musical Shameen Dhu.
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 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!
