Featured BUG Jam 02/23 1 January 2023 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! February 22, 2023 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FREE and you don't need to be any good. This is the kind of BUG you WANT to catch!
Featured BUG Jam 03/23 1 January 2023 It's Hooley Time! BUG Kitchen Party Jam Live @ Red Bird! March 15, 2023 Don your festive finery and 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. 'Tis the kind of BUG ye'll be WANTIN' to catch!
Featured BUG Jam 18/03/23 1 January 2023 BUG is back at "In From The Cold" - March 18, 2023! This has been a favourite BUG outing since 2011 and we’re so happy to be getting back there after the Covid hiatus!
Featured BUG Jam 04/23 1 January 2023 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! April 19, 2023 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! Its’ FREE and you don’t need to be any good. This is the type of BUG you WANT to catch!
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 Ballad of Jesse James, The "Jesse James" is a 19th century American folk song about the outlaw of the same name, first recorded by Bentley Ball in 1919.
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 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 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.
