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 11 November 2016 A Pittance of Time A HUGE THANKS TO TERRY KELLY FOR LETTING US POST THIS BEAUTIFUL SONG FOR OUR GROUP with the understanding that the piece and songsheet is for private use only and remains non commercial – no compensation is extended to anyone.
Songs 6 November 2016 Red Poppy, The "The Red Poppy" was written by our own BUG member, Charles de Lint in 2004.
Songs 5 November 2016 You Were On My Mind "You Were on My Mind" is a popular song written by Sylvia Fricker in 1962. It was originally performed by Fricker and her then husband-to-be Ian Tyson as the duo Ian & Sylvia and they recorded it for their 1964 album, Northern Journey.
Songs 6 September 2016 Dig, Gravedigger, Dig Corb Lund is an alt-country singer-songwriter from Alberta, Canada. He grew up in a ranching and rodeo family in the foothills of Southern Alberta, then spent the early years of his career writing songs and playing bass for the indie rock band “the smalls.”
Songs 23 July 2016 Be My Yoko Ono "Be My Yoko Ono" is the 1992 debut single by the Canadian musical group Barenaked Ladies.
Songs 8 June 2016 In Canada "In Canada" is a song written by David Hadfield, copyright 2012. Performed by Dave and his brother Chris Hadfield, our musical Canadian astronaut extraordinaire! Dave has kindly given his permission for us to use this song and others. What a guy!
Songs 5 June 2016 Saltwater Joys Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers is the name of a musical and comedy trio from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, which is composed of Kevin Blackmore ("Buddy Wasisname"), Wayne Chaulk, and Ray Johnson ("The Other Fellers").
Songs 1 June 2016 Mummers’ Dance, The "The Mummers' Dance" is a single from the album The Book of Secrets in 1997. The song was a surprise hit in the United States, reaching #3 in the Adult Top 40, #17 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and #18 on The Billboard Hot 100.
Songs 29 May 2016 Both Sides Now "Both Sides, Now" is a song by Joni Mitchell, and one of her best-known songs. First recorded by Judy Collins in 1967, it subsequently appeared on Mitchell's 1969 album Clouds. She re-recorded the song in a lusher, orchestrated version for her 2000 album Both Sides Now.
Songs 26 May 2016 Wheat Kings “Wheats Kings” was released in 1992 on The Tragically Hip’s “Full Completely” album.
Songs 26 May 2016 French Song, The Lucille Starr (born May 13, 1938) is a Franco-Manitoban / British Columbian singer, songwriter, and yodeler best known for her 1964 hit single, "Quand Le Soleil Dit Bonjour Aux Montagnes" ("The French Song").
Songs 26 May 2016 Home For A Rest "Home for a Rest" is a song by Canadian folk rock band Spirit of the West from their fourth studio album Save This House, released in 1990.
Songs 10 May 2016 Gracefield "Gracefield" is written and performed by Fiftymen, a local Ottawa group, and recorded on their album After Darkfall.
Songs 27 April 2016 Sweet City Woman The Stampeders are a Canadian rock trio, consisting of Rich Dodson, Ronnie King, and Kim Berly. In 1971 they had a hit with "Sweet City Woman," which won Best Single at the Juno Awards, reached #1 on the RPM magazine charts, and #8 in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Songs 27 April 2016 Complicated "Complicated" is the debut single by Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne, released in 2002 from her debut album, Let Go.
Songs 2 April 2016 Working Man Rita MacNeil, CM, ONS (May 28, 1944 – April 16, 2013) was a Canadian singer from the community of Big Pond on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island.
Songs 8 March 2016 Big Yellow Taxi “Big Yellow Taxi” is a song written, composed, and originally recorded by Joni Mitchell in 1970, and originally released on her album Ladies of the Canyon.
Songs 4 March 2016 When I Am King Great Big Sea was a Canadian folk rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanties, which draw from the island's 500-year-old Irish, Scottish, and Cornish heritage.
Songs 29 February 2016 Last Saskatchewan Pirate, The The Arrogant Worms, a Canadian comedy music group, wrote this popular song about a down-and-out farmer who takes up piracy on the Saskatchewan River, stealing shipments of grain and farm equipment from ships and barges.
Songs 18 February 2016 Mary Ellen Carter, The "The Mary Ellen Carter" is a song written and first recorded by Stan Rogers, intended as an inspirational shanty about triumphing over great odds. It tells the story of a heroic effort to salvage a sunken ship, the Mary Ellen Carter, by some members of her crew.
Songs 27 October 2015 Forty-Five Years Stan Rogers’s “45 Years” (or “Forty-Five Years”) is often considered to be one of the greatest love songs ever written, and certainly in the Canadian folk tradition
Songs 23 October 2015 Gonna “Shine Up My Boots” (Gonna) Shine Up My Boots - Corb Lund & The Hurtin Albertans. From the album "Five Dollar Bill" (2002). Directed by Joel Stewart. Filmed near Didsbury, Alberta.
Songs 23 October 2015 I Wanna Be In The Cavalry Canadian singer-songwriter Corb Lund's 2007 hit "I Wanna Be In The Cavalry" from his 2007 album, Horse Soldier! Horse Soldier!
Songs 5 June 2015 This Land Is Your Land "This Land Is Your Land" is one of the United States' most famous folk songs. Its lyrics were written by American folk singer Woody Guthrie in 1940 based on an existing melody. A Canadian version was written and popularized by Canadian folk music group The Travellers in 1955.
