Featured BUG Jam Videos 16 July 2025 2025 - July BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on July 16, 2025, at the Ottawa Masonic Centre 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 Our BUG Jam is moving to a new home on July 16! We're EXCITED!
Featured BUG Jam 08/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live! 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 23/08/25 1 January 2025 BUGs Will Be Playing @ Orchard Walk Retirement Community - August 23! We're on the road to entertain at Mark's mother's residence in Greely!
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 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 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’s Christmas Jam December 10, 2025 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
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."
Songs 1 June 2014 Summer Of '69 "Summer of '69" is a song recorded by Canadian recording artist Bryan Adams, from his fourth album, Reckless (1984).
Songs 1 June 2014 Farmer’s Song, The “The Farmer’s Song” is about the changes in the farming in that have taken place in America (and Canada), especially since World War Two.
Songs 28 May 2014 Having My Baby, (You're) "(You're) Having My Baby" is a song written and recorded in 1974 by Canadian singer Paul Anka (born and raised in our own city of Ottawa, Ontario).
Songs 9 March 2014 Ballad Of Springhill "The Ballad Of Springhill" is perhaps the most famous of all the Springhill disaster songs, not least because of Peggy Seeger’s and Ewan MacColl’s high profiles in the folk music world.
Songs 9 March 2014 Maid on the Shore, The Stan Rogers sang "Maid on the Shore" on his album "Fogarty's Cove", released 1977.
Songs 4 February 2014 Seagull Stew "Seagull Stew" is an autobiographical ballad about orphan boys and their sister written by Ignatius Matthews (1950-2011) of Brent's Cove, Newfoundland.
Songs 3 February 2014 Au chant de l'alouette Au Chant de l’alouette is a bouncing call and response song that describes a young girl’s encounter with an talking Lark while out picking berries. After accidentally stepping on the lark, the young girl is chastised by the bird.
Songs 28 December 2013 Diana The song "Diana" brought Ottawa native Paul Anka stardom in 1957 as it rocketed to #1 on the Canadian and U.S. music charts. "Diana" is one of the best selling singles ever by a Canadian recording artist.
Songs 3 December 2013 Canadian Twelve Days of Christmas, The "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol that enumerates in the manner of a cumulative song a series of increasingly numerous gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas (the twelve days that make up the Christmas season, starting with Christmas Day).
Songs 15 June 2013 Call Of Angels "Call Of Angels" is a song from Canadian Bluesman Manitoba Hal Brolund's 2008 album "Little Box Of Sadness".
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.
