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 07/24 1 January 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! July 17, 2024 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 08/21 1 January 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! August 21, 2024 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 09/24 1 January 2024 We're On Vacation - No BUG Jam In September But Mark and I will be back before you know it!
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 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 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) It goes like this: millions of records, a couple dozen hits, a Juno Award (Canada's Grammy) for Band of the Year and ongoing sold-out shows across Canada.
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 Maid on the Shore, The Stan Rogers sang "Maid on the Shore" on his album "Fogarty's Cove", released 1977.
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 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.