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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! 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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BUG Jam 03/22 16 March 2022

It's Hooley Time! Our BUG Kitchen Party Jam - March 16, 2022

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!

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Songs 24 January 2022

Goin' Up

The 1995 single "Goin' Up", from Great Big Sea's second studio album, peaked at #70 on the Canadian Singles Chart. The Up album is certified 4x platinum in Canada.

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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

Maid on the Shore, The

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

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Songs 18 March 2013

Mermaid, The

"The Mermaid" is a song about a whaler falling in love with a mermaid, but despairs because the mermaid has fish parts below her waist.

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Songs 16 March 2013

Lukey's Boat

"Lukey's Boat" is a comical song widely sung on the east coast of Newfoundland and collected by Elisabeth Greenleaf in 1929 in Twillingate, Nfld.

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Songs 19 January 2013

Drunken Sailor

"Drunken Sailor" is a sea shanty, also known as "What Shall We Do with a/the Drunken Sailor?"

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Songs 28 February 2012

Botany Bay

"Botany Bay" is a song that can be traced back to the musical burlesque, Little Jack Sheppard, staged at The Gaiety Theatre, London, England, in 1885 and in Melbourne, Australia, in 1886.

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Songs 23 February 2012

I'se the B'y

"I'se The B'y" (also I's The Bye) is a traditional Newfoundland folk song/ballad.

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Songs 22 February 2012

Orange And The Green, The

"The Orange and the Green" or "The Biggest Mix-Up" is a humorous Irish folk song about a man whose father was a Protestant ("Orange") and whose mother was a Catholic ("Green").

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Songs 3 November 2011

Wild Rover, The

"The Wild Rover" is the most widely performed Irish song, although its exact origins are unknown.

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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.