Featured BUG Jam Videos 21 November 2024 2024 - November BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on November 20, 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.
Featured BUG Jams & Events 1 November 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 12/24 1 November 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! December 18, 2024 Don your gay apparel and festive hats and join us for an evening of seasonal songs and revelry! Yule enjoy yours-elves! Our motto - you don’t need to be any good.
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 30 March 2021 Rambles Of Spring, The "The Rambles Of Spring" was an original composition by Tommy Makem which was introduced on The Makem & Clancy Concert album in 1977.
Songs 11 March 2019 When Will We Be Married Traditional as performed by The Waterboys on their album Fisherman's Blues.
Songs 3 March 2018 Old Dun Cow Caught Fire, The The Old Dun Cow Caught Fire is a music hall song written by Harry Wincott in 1893 (oft described as the "King of Comic Song") who wrote many famous tunes but was paid so little for his work that he died a poor man in 1947 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Yeovil.
Songs 3 March 2017 Leaving of Liverpool, The "(The) Leaving of Liverpool", also known as "Fare Thee Well, My Own True Love", is a folksong. Folklorists classify it as a lyric lament, and it was also used as a sea shanty, especially at the capstan.
Songs 19 February 2017 Song For The Mira "Song For The Mira" is a contemporary folk song in the Celtic style, written in 1973 by Allister MacGillivray, a songwriter, guitarist, folklorist, author, record producer, born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia in 1948.
Songs 26 May 2016 Home For A Rest "Home for a Rest" is a song by Canadian folk rock band Spirit of the West from their fourth studio album Save This House, released in 1990.
Songs 4 March 2016 When I Am King Great Big Sea was a Canadian folk rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanties, which draw from the island's 500-year-old Irish, Scottish, and Cornish heritage.
Songs 31 December 2015 I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" is a song written and performed by Scottish duo The Proclaimers (Charlie and Craig Reid), and first released as the lead single from their 1988 album Sunshine on Leith.
Songs 31 December 2015 Fisherman’s Blues Fisherman's Blues is a 1988 album by The Waterboys. The album marked a change in the band's sound, with them abandoning their earlier grandiose rock sound for a mixture of traditional Irish music, traditional Scottish music, country music, and rock and roll.
Songs 5 December 2015 Fairytale Of New York "Fairytale of New York" is a song written by Jem Finer and Shane MacGowan and recorded by their band the Pogues, featuring singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl on vocals.
Songs 1 June 2015 Crawl, The "The Crawl" by Spirit of the West - the quintessential drinking song. This song, from their 1986 album "Tripping Up The Stairs", tells the story of the North Shore Pub Crawl in Vancouver BC. The Crawl was an enduring fan favourite at the band's concerts.
Songs 1 March 2015 Two Sisters "The Two Sisters" is a murder ballad that recounts the tale of a girl drowned by her sister.
Songs 9 January 2015 Green Grow The Rashes O "Green Grow The Rashes O" is one of Robert Burns' earliest songs, originally without the final verse.
Songs 23 February 2012 I'se the B'y "I'se The B'y" (also I's The Bye) is a traditional Newfoundland folk song/ballad.
Songs 27 January 2012 House Is Rockin', The "The House is Rockin'" is the first track of In Step, Stevie Ray Vaughan's fourth and final studio album with Double Trouble released in 1989.
