Featured BUG Jam Videos 17 October 2025 2025 - October BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Spooktacular Autumn 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 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 11/25 16 October 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 16 October 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 7 November 2022 Quartermaster's Store, The "The Quartermaster's Store" is a traditional song from England. It is Roud Folk Song Index no. 10508. The origins of both tune and words are uncertain. It was sung by British and ANZAC soldiers during World War I.
Songs 9 July 2014 Jesse James "Jesse James" is a 19th century American folk song about the outlaw of the same name. Members of the Western Writers of America chose "Jesse James" as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.
Songs 9 July 2014 Down By The Riverside Down by the Riverside" (also known as "Ain't Gonna Study War No More" and "Gonna lay down my burden") is a spiritual.
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 4 July 2014 Tom Dooley "Tom Dooley" is an old North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina, allegedly by Tom Dula.
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 3 November 2011 Big Rock Candy Mountains, The "Big Rock Candy Mountain", first recorded by Harry McClintock in 1928, is a folk music song about a hobo's idea of paradise.
Songs 2 May 2011 English Sparrow (I Wish I Was A Little Bar Of Soap) A favourite song we always sang around our campfires!
Songs 2 May 2011 Home On The Range "Home on the Range" was adapted from a poem by Dr. Brewster M. Higley (formerly a physician, who had moved to Kansas after the Homestead Act of 1862) called "My Western Home," first published in the Smith County Pioneer in 1873.
Songs 1 May 2011 Dear Abby "Dear Abby" is Prine's song about an assortment of miserable people who write letters to the renowned advice columnist was recorded during a live gig at New York's State University after a studio session didn't pan out.
