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 01/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! January 15, 2025 Happy New Year! 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 02/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! February 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 03/25 1 January 2025 BUG Kitchen Party Jam Live @ Red Bird! March 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 04/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! April 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 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 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.
Featured BUG Jam Videos 20 December 2024 2024 - December BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on December 18, 2024, at Red Bird Live - 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.
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.
Songs 25 May 2013 We All Fall Down "We All Fall Down" written and recorded in 2012 by a Canadian band from Toronto, Freeman Dre and The Kitchen Party.
Songs 18 May 2013 Old Blue Truck "Old Blue Truck" is a song written and recorded by Charles de Lint in 2011.
Songs 18 May 2013 Navajo Rug DOWNLOAD THE SONGSHEETNavajo Rug (WORD) Navajo Rug (PDF) YOU CAN PLAY ALONG WITH THE IAN TYSON RECORDING IN THE FIRST VIDEO IN GCEA TUNING, IF
Songs 18 May 2013 Breakfast In Hell "Breakfast In Hell" was written by Slaid Cleaves and released in 2000 on his album "Broke Down".
Songs 18 May 2013 Suzanne "Suzanne" is a song written by Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen in the 1960s.
Songs 18 May 2013 Big Joe Mufferaw Big Joe Mufferaw was a French Canadian folk hero from the Ottawa Valley, perhaps best known today as the hero of a song by Stompin' Tom Connors.
Songs 18 May 2013 Lucille Frederick John Elgersma (born July 9, 1957), known by the stage name Fred Eaglesmith, is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. He is known for writing songs about vehicles, rural life, down-and-out characters, lost love and quirky rural folk.
Songs 18 May 2013 Someday Soon "Someday Soon" is a song composed by Canadian singer/songwriter Ian Tyson. He first recorded this song while married to musical partner Sylvia Tyson in 1964 on the album Northern Journey.
Songs 9 May 2013 1234 "1234" is a song from Feist's third studio album, The Reminder. It is Feist's most successful single to date.
Songs 29 April 2013 Dance Me To The End Of Love DOWNLOAD THE SONGSHEETDance Me To The End Of Love (WORD) Dance Me To The End Of Love (PDF) The songsheet is in the same key
Songs 8 April 2013 Wilder Than Her Frederick John Elgersma (born July 9, 1957), known by the stage name Fred Eaglesmith, is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. He is known for writing songs about vehicles, rural life, down-and-out characters, lost love and quirky rural folk.
