Featured BUG Jam Videos 17 April 2025 2025 - April BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on April 16, 2025, at Red Bird Live 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 1 January 2025 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 05/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! May 21, 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 07/06/25 1 January 2025 BUGs Will Be Playing @ Unitarian House of Ottawa! We're kicking off Seniors Month with residents, friends, and staff at Unitarian House on June 7, 2025!
Featured BUG Jam 06/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! June 18, 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 07/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! July 16, 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 08/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! August 20, 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 09/25 1 January 2025 We're On Vacation - No BUG Jam In September But Mark and I will be back before you know it!
Featured BUG Jam 10/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! October 15, 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 11/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! 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 Jam Live @ Red Bird! December 17, 2025 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Songs 7 November 2018 Earl The Christmas Squirrel The Moffatts consisted of Scott Moffatt and his brothers Bob, Clint, and Dave, who are triplets.
Songs 9 September 2018 Needle and the Damage Done "The Needle and the Damage Done" is a song by Neil Young that describes the destruction caused by the heroin addiction of musicians he knew. Though not specifically about him, the song was inspired by the heroin addiction of his friend and Crazy Horse bandmate Danny Whitten.
Songs 6 July 2018 Summer Summer Night Canada's own, Alan Doyle, of Great Big Sea fame, had this hit song in summer 2017.
Songs 8 June 2018 Poor, Poor Farmer From "Town Spirit", the Spirit River, Alberta blog: “You may know the songs Poor, Poor Farmer” and “Have I Told You Lately That I Love You”… and did you know that Pouce Coupe brothers Keray and Bob Regan were behind them?
Songs 7 June 2018 Rude "Rude" is the 2013 debut single by Canadian band Magic! from their debut studio album, Don't Kill the Magic.
Songs 5 June 2018 Archie, Marry Me Alvvays (pronounced "Always") is a Canadian indie pop band formed in 2011, originating from Toronto. It consists of Molly Rankin (vocals), Kerri MacLellan (keyboards), Alec O'Hanley (guitars), Brian Murphy (bass) and Sheridan Riley (drums).
Songs 3 June 2018 In Hell I'll Be In Good Company An updated version of The Dead South's single "In Hell, I'll Be in Good Company", produced by Jason Plumb, was created along with a video on YouTube, and is credited as contributing to this breakthrough release for the band.
Songs 26 May 2018 Sleep in Late From the 1991 debut album, “BIG SUGAR” by Canadian rock band Big Sugar, a band formed in Toronto in 1988.
Songs 24 May 2018 Stronger Beer "Stronger Beer" is from Tim Hick's debut studio album "THROWDOWN", released August 27, 2013.
Songs 27 March 2018 I Am Cow "I Am Cow" is an irreverent homage to the cow, released on The Arrogant Worms sixth album Dirt!, released in 1999.
Songs 8 March 2018 Ballad of Bowser MacRae From David Francey's album "Right of Passage" 2007, which won a 2008 Juno award for best Roots/Traditional album! David says: "One of the most interesting people I have met on my travels, Greg (Bowser) MacRae was the third mate on the MV Algoville" - a Lake Boat.
Songs 4 March 2018 When You And I Were Young Maggie Blues "When You And I Were Young, Maggie" has been re-scored as "When You and I Were Young, Maggie Blues", by Jack Frost and Jimmy McHugh.
Songs 2 March 2018 Mull River Shuffle, The "Mull River Shuffle" is a Canadian song written by Donald Angus Beaton, J.S. Skinner, Jimmy Rankin, and Wilfred Gillis, and recorded by The Rankin Family for their album, North Country, released in 1993.
Songs 24 February 2018 When You and I Were Young, Maggie "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" is a famous folk song, popular song and standard. In 2005, the song was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Songs 8 February 2018 Own Heart's Delight "My Own Heart's Delight" was written by Canadian singer-songwriter Ian Tyson for his 1987 album, Cowboyography.
Songs 28 January 2018 Lost Together "Lost Together" was written by Greg Keelor for Blue Rodeo's 1992 album of the same name.
Songs 25 November 2017 Takin' Care Of Christmas Track 1 off of Randy Bachman's holiday release 'Takin' Care of Christmas' 2008.
Songs 17 November 2017 Red Canvas Canoe This is for all you canoeists out there. I hope you enjoy this sweet, simple song sung by Lorraine McDonald. It comes from the CD Canoesongs Voume II.
Songs 25 October 2017 Bobcaygeon "Bobcaygeon" is a song by Canadian rock band The Tragically Hip. It was released in February 1999 as a single from their sixth album, Phantom Power, and has come to be recognized as one of the band's most enduring and beloved signature songs.
Songs 3 September 2017 One Tin Soldier "One Tin Soldier" was written by Dennis Lambert and Brian Potter. Canadian pop group The Original Caste recorded the song in 1969.
Songs 23 July 2017 That's Life (Lovin' You Right Back) Corin Raymond is a Canadian folk rock and alternative country singer-songwriter. He is most noted for receiving a Juno Award nomination for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year for his album Hobo Jungle Fever Dreams at the Juno Awards of 2017.
Songs 11 July 2017 I Make The Dough, You Get The Glory Kathleen Edwards (born July 11, 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. Edwards, the daughter of a diplomat, spent portions of her youth in Korea and Switzerland.
