Featured BUG Jams & Events 23 December 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 01/25 23 December 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! January 15, 2025 Happy New Year! Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN! And you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jams & Events 23 December 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! February 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 Videos 20 December 2024 2024 - December BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on December 18, 2024, at Red Bird Live - 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.
Songs 9 September 2013 Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" is a song written by American folk rock singer Jim Croce. Released as part of his 1973 album Life and Times, the song was a Number One pop hit for him, spending two weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1973. Billboard ranked it as the No. 2 song for 1973.
Songs 7 June 2013 Long Long Road "Long Long Road is written by David Francey (born 1954), a Canadian folk singer-songwriter. He is the recipient of three Juno Awards and three Canadian Folk Music awards.
Songs 18 May 2013 Old Blue Truck "Old Blue Truck" is a song written and recorded by Charles de Lint in 2011.
Songs 18 May 2013 Suzanne "Suzanne" is a song written by Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen in the 1960s.
Songs 30 March 2013 I Don’t Wanna Grow Up "I Don't Wanna Grow Up" was written by Tom Waits and his wife, Kathleen Brennan, and released on the album, Bone Machine, in 1992.
Songs 13 November 2012 A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" is a song written by Bob Dylan in the summer of 1962 and recorded later that year for his second album, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963).
Songs 10 November 2012 Colours "Colours" is a song written and recorded in 1965 by Donovan Philips Leitch, a Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist.
Songs 29 October 2012 Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key "Way Over Yonder In The Minor Key" is from the 1998 album "Mermaid Avenue" of previously unheard lyrics written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie, put to music written and performed by British singer Billy Bragg and the American band Wilco.
Songs 27 October 2012 Times They Are a-Changin', The "The Times They Are a-Changin'" is a song written by Bob Dylan and released as the title track of his 1964 album of the same name.
Songs 13 October 2012 Swimming Song, The After the success of Loudon Wainwright III's "Dead Skunk," Columbia Records was eager for another "silly animal song" to appeal to the public.
Songs 9 June 2012 Brown Eyed Girl "Brown Eyed Girl" is a song by Northern Irish singer and songwriter Van Morrison.
Songs 22 April 2012 500 Miles "500 Miles" (also known as "500 Miles Away from Home" or "Railroaders' Lament") is a song made popular in the United States and Europe during the 1960s folk revival.
Songs 6 April 2012 Help Me Make It Through The Night "Help Me Make It Through The Night" is a country music ballad written and composed by Kris Kristofferson and released on his 1970 album Kristofferson.
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 22 August 2011 Will The Circle Be Unbroken? "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" is a popular Christian hymn written in 1907 by Ada R. Habershon with music by Charles H. Gabriel.
Songs 22 August 2011 I'll Fly Away "I'll Fly Away", is a hymn written in 1929 by Albert E. Brumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company in a collection titled Wonderful Message. Brumley's writing was influenced in part by an older secular ballad.
Songs 3 August 2011 Blowin' in the Wind "Blowin' in the Wind" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1962. It was released as a single and included on his album The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan in 1963.
Songs 29 April 2011 Where Have All The Flowers Gone? "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?" is a modern folk-style song. Inspired lyrically by the traditional Cossack folk song "Koloda-Duda", Pete Seeger wrote the melody and the first three verses in 1955 and published it in Sing Out! magazine.
