Featured BUG Jam Videos 20 March 2025 2025 - March BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on March 19, 2025, at Red Bird Live 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 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 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 07/06/25 1 January 2025 BUGs Will Be Playing @ Unitarian House of Ottawa! We're kicking off Seniors Month with residents, friends, and staff at Unitarian House on June 7, 2025!
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.
Songs 15 March 2025 Elbows Up Canada! "Elbows Up Canada!" is a terrific high-energy anthem of unity and resilience, accompanying a great video found on YouTube Channel Your Happy Birthday Song!
Songs 5 March 2025 A Million Dollars Multiple award-winning Canadian singer/songwriter, Joel Plaskett, released the song "A Million Dollars" in 2011.
Songs 1 March 2025 Has Anybody Seen My Skates "Has Anybody Seen My Skates" premiered on Hockey Day in Canada and was included on Lennie Gallant's album, Live Acoustic at the Carleton (2014), and Searching for Abegweit - Songs from the musical by Lennie Gallant (2016).
Songs 26 February 2025 Island, The Kenzie MacNeil, Order of Nova Scotia (2 September 1952 – 24 July 2021) was a Canadian songwriter, performer, producer and director in television, film, radio and stage. MacNeil is best known for his song “The Island,” an unofficial anthem of Cape Breton Island.
Songs 1 February 2025 Chanson pour les mois d'hiver "Chanson pour les mois d’hiver" is a song from francophone Canadian pop singer Isabelle Boulay's seventh studio album, called "Chansons pour les mois d'hiver" released in November 2009.
Songs 28 January 2025 You're Still The One "You're Still the One" is a song recorded by Canadian singer Shania Twain for her third studio album Come On Over (1997).
Songs 30 December 2024 Lock-Keeper Canadian Singer-songwriter, Stan Rogers, wrote this song and recorded it on his 1984 album, From Fresh Water.
Songs 26 November 2024 23 Décembre The song 23 Décembre was written by band members Pierre Huet (lyrics) and Michel Rivard (music) and recorded on their first, self-titled album, Beau Dommage, in 1974.
Songs 25 November 2024 Skating Rink "Skating Rink" was written and recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter, David Francey, in 2003.
Songs 5 November 2024 Bad Day "Bad Day" is a pop song by Canadian singer-songwriter Daniel Powter from his self-titled second studio album (2005).
Songs 5 November 2024 Singing Away My Blues "Singing Away My Blues" was written and recorded by Canadian singer/songwriter T.C. Connors, a.k.a., Stompin' Tom Connors in 1978.
Songs 5 November 2024 Little Ukulele "Little Ukulele" is a song written by Canadian Kevin Breit, and recorded by Canadian singer/songwriters and multi-instrumentalists, Harry Manx and Kevin, for their 2011 collaborative album, Strictly Whatever.
Songs 30 October 2024 North Country "North Country" is a Canadian song written by Jimmy Rankin, and recorded by The Rankin Family for their album, North Country, released in 1993.
Songs 28 October 2024 Good Mother “Good Mother” was written by Canadian singer-songwriter, Jann Arden, for her second album, Living Under June, released in 1994.
Songs 8 September 2024 C'est l'Halloween "C'est l'Halloween" was written in 1981 by a young teacher named Matt Maxwell, and it was the song that inspired him to leave his teaching job and begin a 15-year career as a children's performer.
Songs 30 June 2024 Constant Craving "Constant Craving" is a song written by Canadian singer-songwriter k.d. lang and Ben Mink, performed by lang and included on her second solo album, Ingénue (1992). The song won lang a Grammy Award in the category for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance in 1993.
Songs 29 June 2024 I Lost My Baby "I Lost My Baby" is from Québécois singer-songwriter Jean Leloup's album, Le dôme, released in 1996.
Songs 26 June 2024 Love Is A Rose "Love Is a Rose" is a song written and composed by Canadian singer-songwriter, Neil Young. It first became popular in 1975 when Linda Ronstadt had a country hit with her version.
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 10 March 2024 Captain Wedderburn "Captain Wedderburn" was recorded by Great Big Sea with Sarah Harmer. It's based on "Captain Wedderburn's Courtship" an old Scottish ballad dating from 1785 or earlier - Child Ballad #46, Roud 36.
Songs 6 March 2024 Night Pat Murphy Died, The "The Night Pat Murphy Died" is a popular Newfoundland folk song regarding the death of a man and the antics of his friends as they engage in a traditional Irish wake. It is often attributed to Johnny Burke (1851–1930), a popular St. John's balladeer.
Songs 4 March 2024 Ol' Outport Museum "Ol' Outport Museum" is a song with lyrics written by Rob Starkes of La Scie, Newfoundland, in 2022. Music is based on The Great Rock Island Route published 1882 and later know as Wabash Cannonball.
documentary 30 January 2024 Documentary - Nova Scotia's Ukulele Harmony An interesting 4-part documentary called "Nova Scotia's Ukulele Harmony", about the ukulele's history on the east coast of Canada.
