Featured BUG Jams & Events 2 March 2024 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 05/24 1 January 2024 BUG "Dance Party" Jam Live @ Red Bird! May 15, 2024 It's time for a May ukulele dance party and you're invited! Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! Don't worry - no dancing required just enthusiastic uke playing and singing! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 06/24 1 January 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! June 19, 2024 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN! And you don’t need to be any good.
Songs 25 March 2024 Lovin' You Ain't Easy "Lovin' You Ain't Easy" was written by Canadian singer-songwriter Michel Pagliaro and was first released in 1971.
Songs 30 January 2024 Sing Me A Song In 2022, Canadian singer-songwriters William Prince and Serena Ryder released the standalone singles "Sing Me a Song" and "River of Tears".
Songs 1 June 2023 Until It’s Time For You To Go "Until It's Time for You to Go" is a song from the 1965 album Many a Mile by Canadian singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie.
Songs 23 March 2023 Round And Round "Round And Round" was written and recorded by Matt Andersen and released on his 2009 album "Live From The Phoenix Theatre".
Songs 10 January 2023 Summer Vibe "Summer Vibe" was released on Walk Off The Earth's album, REVO, on March 19, 2013.
Songs 30 November 2022 Santa Never Brings A Banjolele "Santa Never Brings Me A Banjo" (re-done as "Santa Never Brings A Banjolele" by Sue) is a celebrated holiday song from the multi-talented and multiple-award-winning Canadian musician, David Myles. It was released in 2014 on his Christmas album entitled "It's Christmas".
Songs 29 November 2022 Calling To Say "Calling To Say" was written and recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter, Serena Ryder, and released as a single in 2007.
Songs 27 November 2022 Til It All Comes 'Round Again (Solstice Song) This beautiful song, 'Til It All Comes 'Round Again (Solstice Song), was written and recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter, Kate Ferris, in 2019 to honour the Winter Solstice, and the coming of Light.
Songs 26 November 2022 Solstice Carole "Solstice Carole" was written by Kim Baryluk, and released on The Wyrd Sisters now discontinued cassette "Leave A Little Light" in 1993.
Songs 9 February 2022 Love Bug "Love Bug" is a song from the highly anticipated 2014 album of the same name which marked Raffi’s first new album of original material in over a decade.
Songs 24 January 2022 Goin' Up The 1995 single "Goin' Up", from Great Big Sea's second studio album, peaked at #70 on the Canadian Singles Chart. The Up album is certified 4x platinum in Canada.
Songs 7 December 2021 Little Skidoo "Little Skidoo" was written by Canadian Bert Collins in 1967, but not recorded until 1977.
Songs 26 November 2021 River "River" is a song by Canadian singer songwriter Joni Mitchell, from her 1971 album Blue.
Songs 20 July 2021 Nowhere With You The single "Nowhere with You, written and recorded by Joel Plaskett in 2006, has received the most mainstream radio airplay of any Plaskett release to date, and was featured in a Zellers television commercial.
Songs 6 June 2021 This Storm Written and recorded by award-winning Prince Edward Island, Canada singer-songwriters Tara MacLean and Catherine MacLellan in 2020 while in self-isolation - miles apart - and with friends Natalie Williams-Calhoun (cello) and Mark Westberg (mixing/mastering).
Songs 10 April 2021 Red-Winged Blackbird The song, Red-Winged Blackbird, is from Canadian singer-songwriter David Francey's 1999 debut album, "Torn Screen Door".
Songs 22 June 2020 Paddle Wheeler "Paddle Wheeler" is a song written by Al Oster, about the paddlewheelers that used to travel the Yukon River during the Klondike Gold Rush.
Songs 21 June 2020 Ukuleles Across Canada Medley "Ukuleles Across Canada Medley" is a medley of songs written by a songwriter born in each province. To date, I haven't included songs by songwriters born in Yukon, Northwest Territories, or Nunavut, but they can always be added for another time. Happy Canada Day!
Songs 19 June 2020 Black Rum And Blueberry Pie DOWNLOAD THE SONGSHETBlack Rum And Blueberry Pie (WORD) Black Rum And Blueberry Pie (PDF) YOU CAN PLAY IN THE SAME KEY AS THE VIDEO! Written
Songs 19 June 2020 Chante-la ta chanson The idea that “everyone has their own melody inside” had been bouncing around Marcel Lefebvre’s head for quite some time. It was while driving back from the family cottage that the famous chorus came to him spontaneously.
Songs 19 June 2020 Manitoba Charles Thomas "Stompin' Tom" Connors, OC (February 9, 1936 - March 6, 2013) was one of Canada's most prolific and well-known folk singers, he was born in Saint John, New Brunswick. Connors' habit of stomping the heel of his left boot to keep rhythm earned him the nickname Stompin' Tom .
Songs 19 June 2020 Chu pas une femme à marier Les Hay Babies are an indie-folk music trio made up of three vibrant young women. Katrine Noël, Vivianne Roy and Julie Aubé, who come from three of the four cardinal points in New Brunswick, blend their accents to create a sense of peace and present their own kind of indie-folk.
Songs 15 May 2020 Under A Stormy Sky "Under A Stormy Sky" is by Daniel Lanois and appears on his debut album Acadie (1989) and on the live album Rockets (2004). Acadie was named the 20th greatest Canadian album of all time in Bob Mersereau's 2007 book The Top 100 Canadian Albums.
Songs 4 February 2020 La complainte du phoque en Alaska La Complaint du Phoque en Alaska was written by Michel Rivard (born September 27, 1951), a singer-songwriter and musician from Quebec.
