Featured BUG Jams & Events 16 October 2025 Save the Dates for Upcoming BUG Jams! Mark your calendars to remind you when the BUG Jams are and when you can purchase tickets - it's not ALWAYS the same!
Featured BUG Jam Videos 15 October 2025 BUG Jam Videos 2025 - October BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on October 15, 2025, at the Ottawa Masonic Centre 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.
Featured BUG Jam 11/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live! 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.
Featured BUG Jam 12/25 1 January 2025 BUG Ho-Ho-Holiday Jam! December 10, 2025 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.
Songs 10 May 2015 Pussywillows, Cat-Tails "Pussywillows, Cat-tails" is the 8th track on Gordon Lightfoot's third album, "Did She Mention My Name", released in 1968.
Songs 9 May 2015 Daydream "Daydream" is a popular song written by John Sebastian, published in 1966. The song was originally recorded that year by Sebastian's group The Lovin' Spoonful and released on their album of the same title.
Songs 9 May 2015 Buffalo Gals "Buffalo Gals" is a traditional American song, written and published as "Lubly Fan" in 1844.
Songs 8 May 2015 Cruel To Be Kind "Cruel to Be Kind" is a 1979 single by Nick Lowe, co-written by Lowe and his former Brinsley Schwarz bandmate Ian Gomm, that peaked at No. 12 in both the UK and U.S. charts that summer.
Songs 1 May 2015 Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" was a major hit for The Andrews Sisters and an iconic World War II tune. It can be considered an early jump blues recording.The song is ranked No. 6 on Songs of the Century.
Songs 29 April 2015 Fish And Whistle "Fish And Whistle" is a song written by American folk singer-songwriter John Prine and released in 1978 on his fifth album, Bruised Orange.
Songs 25 April 2015 Maggie May "Maggie May" is a song co-written by singer Rod Stewart and Martin Quittenton, and recorded by Rod Stewart in 1970 for his album Every Picture Tells a Story, released in 1971.
Songs 8 January 2015 Jambalaya Released in July 1952, crediting Hank Williams as the sole author, it was performed by Williams as a country song. It reached number one on the U.S. country charts for fourteen non-consecutive weeks. "Jambalaya" remains one of Hank Williams' most popular songs today.
Songs 8 July 2014 Canoeing My Troubles Away A wonderful song by Shelley Posen - singer songwriter extraordinaire from Toronto. He's one of the fabulous local trio here in Ottawa known as Finest Kind, along with Ann Downey and Ian Robb. You can find this song on the CD, Canoesongs, Volume II.
Songs 3 July 2014 Green Grass Grew All Around, The "And the Green Grass Grew All Around", also known as "The Green Grass Grew All Around" or "And the Green Grass Grows All Around", is an Appalachian folk song that was first noted in 1877 in (Miss M. H. Mason's book 'Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs' but is likely to be much older.
Songs 15 June 2014 When I First Stepped In A Canoe "When I First Stepped In A Canoe" is a song written by Ottawa based singer-songwriter Shelley Posen in 2004 and can be found on the CD, Canoe Songs 1.
Songs 10 February 2014 Chapel Of Love "Chapel of Love" is a song written by Jeff Barry, Ellie Greenwich and Phil Spector, and made famous by The Dixie Cups in 1964, spending three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Songs 4 March 2013 Boat On The River I'm hearing bass, I'm hearing accordion or melodion, I'm hearing tambourine, I'm hearing BUGS...this song has it all!
Songs 7 July 2012 Flowers On The Wall "Flowers on the Wall" is a song made famous by the country music group The Statler Brothers.
Songs 7 June 2012 Rhythm Of The Rain "Rhythm of the Rain" is a song performed by The Cascades, released in November 1962. It was written by Cascades band member John Claude Gummoe.
Songs 17 May 2012 San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair) "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" is an American pop music song, written by John Phillips in 1967, and recorded by Scott McKenzie.
Songs 15 January 2012 Way You Make Me Feel, The "The Way You Make Me Feel" is a song by American recording artist Michael Jackson. It was released by Epic Records on November 9, 1987 as the third single from his seventh studio album Bad.
Songs 14 January 2012 Tiptoe Through The Tulips "Tiptoe Through the Tulips" is a popular song originally published in 1929. The song was written by Al Dubin (lyrics) and Joe Burke (music).
Songs 11 November 2011 They're Red Hot "They're Red Hot" is a song originally performed and written by blues musician Robert Johnson and released in July 1937.
Songs 1 October 2011 Turn! Turn! Turn! Turn! Turn! Turn!", sometimes known as "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)", is a song written by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s.
Songs 16 August 2011 Cum On Feel The Noize "Cum On Feel the Noize" is a song by the English rock band Slade, which was released in 1973 as a non-album single.
Songs 4 June 2011 Rockin' Robin "Rockin' Robin" is a song written by Leon René under the pseudonym of Jimmie Thomas and recorded by Bobby Day in 1958. It was Day's only hit single, becoming a number-two hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent one week at the top of the charts (number one hit) in R&B sales.
Songs 2 May 2011 Three Little Fishies "Three Little Fishies" is a song, recorded by Kay Kyser and His Band, with words by Josephine Carringer and Bernice Idins and music by Saxie Dowell. The song was a US No. 1 hit in 1939.
