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 7 April 2013 Last Will & Testament The Burning Hell is the songwriting project of Mathias Kom, particularly known for their literate—often literary—and humorous lyrics.
Songs 18 March 2013 Mermaid, The "The Mermaid" is a song about a whaler falling in love with a mermaid, but despairs because the mermaid has fish parts below her waist.
Songs 16 March 2013 Lukey's Boat "Lukey's Boat" is a comical song widely sung on the east coast of Newfoundland and collected by Elisabeth Greenleaf in 1929 in Twillingate, Nfld.
Songs 16 March 2013 Squid-Jiggin’ Ground, The "The Squid-Jiggin' Ground" became Newfoundland's first local hit record when it sold 15,000 copies in 1943.
Songs 16 March 2013 Ryans and the Pittmans, The (We’ll Rant And We’ll Roar) "The Ryans and The Pittmans" is a popular Newfoundland folk song. It tells of the romantic entanglements of a sailor named Bob Pittman, and his desire to sail home to finally marry his "sweet Biddy". The song is also known as "We'll Rant and We'll Roar", after the first line of the chorus.
Songs 22 December 2012 Up On Cripple Creek "Up on Cripple Creek" is the fifth song on the The Band's eponymous second album, The Band. It was released as a single in November 1969 and reached #25 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Songs 8 December 2012 Christmas In The Valley "Christmas In The Valley" is a song written by Ottawa Valley's own talented Wayne Rostad
Songs 5 November 2012 Old Man "Old Man" is a song written and performed by Neil Young on his 1972 album Harvest.
Songs 4 November 2012 Heart Of Gold "Heart of Gold" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young. Released from the 1972 album Harvest, it is so far Young's only U.S. No. 1 single.
Songs 1 November 2012 Sugar Mountain "Sugar Mountain" is a 1964 song by Canadian folk rock singer and composer Neil Young.
Songs 25 October 2012 Long May You Run "Long May You Run" is a studio album credited to the Stills-Young Band, a collaboration between Stephen Stills and Neil Young, released in 1976 on Reprise Records.
Songs 24 October 2012 Helpless "Helpless" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter Neil Young, recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (CSNY) on their 1970 album Déjà Vu.
Songs 13 October 2012 Autumn's Here "Autumn's Here" is a song by Hawksley Workman and appears on the album Lover/Fighter (2003).
Songs 9 June 2012 After The Goldrush "After the Gold Rush" is a song written, composed, and performed by Neil Young and is the title song from the 1970 album of the same name. In addition to After the Gold Rush, it also appears on Decade, Greatest Hits, and Live Rust.
Songs 9 June 2012 Weight, The "The Weight" is a song originally by the Canadian-American group The Band that was released in 1968; written by The Band member Robbie Robertson.
Songs 9 June 2012 Born to be Wild "Born to Be Wild" was released by Steppenwolf in 1968. It was the band's third single off their 1968 debut album Steppenwolf and became their most successful single, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts.
Songs 18 May 2012 Alcohol and Pills This song is by Fred Eaglesmith and appears on the album Lipstick, Lies & Gasoline (1997).
Songs 8 May 2012 Canadian Railroad Trilogy The "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" is a song written, composed, and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot that describes the building of the trans-Canada Canadian Pacific Railway in the early 1880s.
Songs 6 May 2012 Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is a song by The Band, recorded in 1969 and released on their eponymous second album.
Songs 5 May 2012 Freight Train (Eaglesmith) 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 2 May 2012 I Like Trains Frederick John Elgersma (born July 9, 1957), known by the stage name Fred Eaglesmith, is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter.
Songs 18 April 2012 Hockey Song, The "The Hockey Song" is a song written and originally performed by Canadian folksinger Stompin' Tom Connors. The song's first release was on Connors' 1973 album, Stompin' Tom and the Hockey Song.
Songs 15 April 2012 Sudbury Saturday Night "Sudbury Saturday Night" was originally released on Stompin' Tom Connors 1967 debut album "The Northlands' Own Tom Connors".
