Featured Photos 7 March 2026 BUGs play at In From The Cold at Parkdale United Church - March 2026 Mark and I want to thank each and every one of the amazing volunteers who made the time today to join us for the In
Featured BUG Jam Videos 11 February 2026 2026 - February BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on February 11, 2026! 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 2026 Save the Dates for Upcoming BUG Jams! Mark your calendars to remind you when the BUG Jams are and when you can purchase tickets - it's not ALWAYS the same! It will always be on a Wednesday, but not necessarily the 3rd Wednesday of the month!
Featured BUG Jam 03/26 1 January 2026 BUG Kitchen Party Jam Live! March 18, 2026 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 great craic and ye dunna need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 04/26 1 January 2026 BUG Jam Live! April 15, 2026 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured Photos 10 December 2025 BUG Jam Live! 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!
Songs 27 May 2015 Summer Wages Summer Wages is a song from Ian & Sylvia’s 1967 album, So Much for Dreaming, and Ian Tyson’s 1986 album, Cowboyography.
Songs 10 May 2015 Pussywillows, Cat-Tails "Pussywillows, Cat-tails" is the 8th track on Gordon Lightfoot's third album, "Did She Mention My Name", released in 1968.
Songs 3 April 2015 Rock ‘n’ Roll Song Paul Valdemar Horsdal (born 1 September 1945 in Ottawa, Ontario), commonly known as Valdy, is a Canadian folk and country musician whose solo career began in the early 1970s.
Songs 2 April 2015 Attitude Of Gratitude The Swinging Belles, a JUNO award-winning swing band for kids from St. John’s, NL, are intent on getting both kids and adults to kick up their heels and have a swinging good time with the whole family!
Songs 7 March 2015 By The Glow Of The Kerosene Light "By The Glow Of The Kerosene Light" was written by Wince Coles and recorded by Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers in 1993.
Songs 11 January 2015 Renaissance DOWNLOAD SONGSHEET Renaissance (WORD) Renaissance (PDF) You can play along with Valdy in GCEA tuning if you put your capo on the 2nd fret! This
Songs 8 January 2015 Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream This 1950 folk classic "Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream" remains a powerful anti-war favourite. It is the most famous song written by U.S.-born, naturalized Canadian folk singer, Ed McCurdy.
Songs 8 January 2015 Safety Dance, The "The Safety Dance" is a song written and recorded by Canadian new wave band Men Without Hats.
Songs 4 January 2015 Water Bill, The "The Water Bill" is a song from Canadian band Lake Of Stew's 2008 debut album, 'Ain't Tired Of Lovin'.
Songs 27 November 2014 Let the Good Guys Win This song was written by Canadian Murray McLauchlan, and sung by Murray, Tom Cochran, and Paul Hyde. McLauchlan was born in Scotland, but he immigrated to Canada with his family when he was five years old.
Songs 31 October 2014 Takin' Care of Business "Takin' Care of Business" is a song written by Randy Bachman and first recorded by Canadian rock group Bachman–Turner Overdrive (BTO) for their 1973 album Bachman–Turner Overdrive II.
Songs 26 October 2014 White Rose "White Rose" written and recorded by Canadian singer/songwriter and story teller, Fred Eaglesmith in 1996.
Songs 22 August 2014 Besoin Pour Vivre Claude André Dubois (born 24 April 1947 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.
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 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 11 June 2014 Opeongo Line By the late 1850s, the authorities of Upper Canada looked to expand colonization in this region by building the Opeongo Line, a series of roads extending westward from Renfrew to Whitney.
Songs 10 June 2014 Down By The Henry Moore "Down by the Henry Moore" is a single by Canadian artist Murray McLauchlan. Released in 1975, it was the fourth single from his album Sweeping the Spotlight Away. The song reached number one on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada in August 1975.
Songs 8 June 2014 Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, The "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a song written, composed, and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot in 1976 to commemorate the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975.
Songs 8 June 2014 Barrett’s Privateers "Barrett's Privateers" is a modern folk song in the style of a sea shanty, written and performed by Canadian musician Stan Rogers, having been inspired after a song session with the Friends of Fiddler's Green at the Northern Lights Festival Boréal in Sudbury, Ontario.
Songs 4 June 2014 We're Here For A Good Time (Not A Long Time) "We're Here for a Good Time (Not a Long Time)" is a song by Canadian rock band Trooper, released in June 1977 as the lead single from their third studio album, Knock 'Em Dead Kid.
Songs 2 June 2014 Blackfly Song, The "The Black Fly Song" is a song written in 1949 by Canadian singer-songwriter, Wade Hemsworth, about working in the wilds of Northern Ontario. It is an enduring classic of Canadian folk music, covered by a variety of other artists.
Songs 2 June 2014 Cousin Mary Fludd was a Canadian rock band in the 1970s, best known for their 1973 hit "Cousin Mary".
Songs 2 June 2014 Morning Train This song is from Francey's 2004 Juno nominated album, The Waking Hour. He says, "I started this song at the train station in Tønder, Denmark. I thought that the messages from all the gods would be the same."
