Featured BUG Jams & Events 8 July 2026 Save the Dates for Upcoming BUG Jams! Mark your calendars to remind you when the BUG Jams are and when you can purchase tickets - it's not ALWAYS the same! It will always be on a Wednesday, but not necessarily the 3rd Wednesday of the month!
Featured BUG Jam 07/26 8 July 2026 BUG Jam Live! July 15, 2026 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 08/26 8 July 2026 BUGs About Beatles Live! August 19, 2026 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jams & Events 8 July 2026 We're On Vacation - No BUG Jam In September 2026 But Mark and I will be back before you know it!
Featured BUG Jam 10/26 8 July 2026 BUG Jam Live! October 21, 2026 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 11/26 8 July 2026 BUG Jam Live! November 18, 2026 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 12/26 8 July 2026 BUG Jam Live! December 9, 2026 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 18 June 2026 2026 - June BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on June 17, 2026! 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 Photos 7 March 2026 BUGs play at In From The Cold at Parkdale United Church - March 2026 Mark and I want to thank each and every one of the amazing volunteers who made the time today to join us for the In
Featured Photos 10 December 2025 BUG Jam Live! December 2025 So much ukulele fun on a beautiful, snowy winter night! Fabulous festive outfits, a terrific dessert buffet, and outstanding, enthusiastic singing from all of you!
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 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) 🍁 "We're Here for a Good Time (Not a Long Time)" is a song by Canadian rock band Trooper, released in June 1977 as the lead single from their third studio album, Knock 'Em Dead Kid.
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 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 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 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 SONGSHEET Navajo Rug (WORD) Navajo Rug (PDF) YOU CAN PLAY ALONG WITH THE IAN TYSON RECORDING IN THE FIRST VIDEO IN GCEA TUNING,
Songs 18 May 2013 Suzanne 🍁 "Suzanne" is a song written by Canadian poet and musician Leonard Cohen in the 1960s.
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 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 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.
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.
