Featured BUG Jam 01/26 1 January 2026 BUG Jam Live! January 14, 2026 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 1 January 2026 BUG Orchestra Fun with Mark & Sue! January 24, 2026 Have you always wanted to be part of a ukulele orchestra?
Featured BUG Jams & Events 1 January 2026 BUG Really Small, REALLY SLOW Jam with Sue & Mark! January 24, 2026 Beginners! Mark and I are holding a ukulele slow jam in our home. Come join us!
Featured BUG Jam 02/26 1 January 2026 BUG Jam Live! February 11, 2026 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 07/03/26 1 January 2026 BUG is back at "In From The Cold" - March 7, 2026! This has been a favourite BUG outing since 2011!
Featured BUG Jam 03/26 1 January 2026 BUG Kitchen Party Jam Live! March 18, 2026 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and shenanigans! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured Photos 10 December 2025 BUG Jam Live! Photos - December 2025 So much ukulele fun on a beautiful, snowy winter night! Fabulous festive outfits, a terrific dessert buffet, and outstanding, enthusiastic singing from all of you!
Featured BUG Jam Videos 10 December 2025 2025 - December BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Ho-Ho-Holiday Jam recorded on December 10, 2025, with a full house of festive ukers despite our first major snowstorm of the year! 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 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.
Songs 23 February 2012 Kelligrew’s Soiree The Kelligrews Soiree is a popular Newfoundland folk song first published in 1904. It was written by Johnny Burke (1851 – 1930), a popular St. John's balladeer.
Songs 5 February 2012 Log Driver's Waltz, The Canadian singer/songwriter Wade Hemsworth composed less than twenty songs over a fifty year period. But his works were carefully crafted, and sometimes so singable and eminently "Canadian" that they came to be regarded as folksongs.
Songs 2 November 2011 Hallelujah "Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian recording artist Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984).
Songs 31 October 2011 Song For A Winter's Night "Song for a Winter's Night" is a song written by Gordon Lightfoot, and first recorded for his 1967 album, The Way I Feel. Lightfoot actually recorded two versions of the song; the second appears on the 1975 album Gord's Gold, a greatest hits compilation on which other re-recordings also appeared.
Songs 10 September 2011 Circle Game, The "The Circle Game" dates back to 1967, when Joni Mitchell wrote it and Buffy Sainte-Marie became the first to record it, including the song on her album Fire & Fleet & Candlelight.
Songs 5 September 2011 Harvest Moon Harvest Moon" is a song written by Neil Young and was the first single released on his 1992 album, Harvest Moon.
Songs 23 August 2011 Sundown "Sundown" is a song by Canadian folk artist Gordon Lightfoot, released as a single in March 1974.
Songs 22 August 2011 Something To Sing About "Something to Sing About" is a patriotic song written by American folk singer Oscar Brand that sings the praises of the many different regions of Canada.
Songs 22 August 2011 Come Rain Or Come Shine "Come Rain Or Come Shine" is from David Francey's 2003 album "Skating Rink" for which he was a 2004 JUNO WINNER.
Songs 22 August 2011 Four Strong Winds "Four Strong Winds" is a song written by Canadian Ian Tyson in the early 1960s and recorded by Canadian folk duo Ian and Sylvia.
Songs 20 August 2011 Un Canadien Errant "Un Canadien errant" ("A Wandering Canadian") is a song written in 1842 by Antoine Gérin-Lajoie.
Songs 20 August 2011 V'la l'bon vent "V'là l'bon vent" is a folksong on the theme of the 'trois canards' or three ducks, of which there are some 100 variants.
Songs 4 July 2011 Robin in the Rain Raffi Cavoukian, CM OBC (Armenian: Րաֆֆի, born July 8, 1948), known professionally by the mononym Raffi, is a Canadian singer-lyricist and author of Armenian descent born in Egypt, best known for his children's music.
Songs 24 June 2011 If I Had $1,000,000 "If I Had $1,000,000" is a song by the Canadian musical group Barenaked Ladies from their album Gordon, composed by founding members Steven Page and Ed Robertson.
Songs 4 June 2011 Jack Was Every Inch A Sailor "Jack Was Every Inch A Sailor" is a traditional Newfoundland and Labrador folk song. It is a comical retelling of the Jonah tale, with a Newfoundland whaler as protagonist, but in this instance the whale gets his comeuppance.
Songs 17 April 2011 Time BUG Members Please A phrase called out at closing time in a pub. A bell usually rings ten or fifteen minutes before to alert people that the bar is closing so that they can order more drinks. Then at closing the bell rings again and the bar person can say "Time gentlemen please!"
Songs 26 February 2011 Farewell To Nova Scotia "Farewell to Nova Scotia" is a popular folk song from Nova Scotia of unknown authorship.
