Featured BUG Jam Videos 11 February 2026 2026 - February BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on February 11, 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 BUG Jams & Events 1 January 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 07/03/26 1 January 2026 BUG is back at "In From The Cold" - March 7, 2026! This has been a favourite BUG outing since 2011!
Featured BUG Jam 03/26 1 January 2026 BUG Kitchen Party Jam Live! March 18, 2026 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and shenanigans! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
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 25 February 2016 Mountain Dew/I’ll Tell Me Ma We're sure to have a grand time with this medley!
Songs 18 February 2016 Mary Ellen Carter, The "The Mary Ellen Carter" is a song written and first recorded by Stan Rogers, intended as an inspirational shanty about triumphing over great odds. It tells the story of a heroic effort to salvage a sunken ship, the Mary Ellen Carter, by some members of her crew.
Songs 17 February 2016 Fiddler's Green Fiddler's Green is a legendary supposed afterlife, where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing, and dancers who never tire. In 19th-century maritime folklore it was a kind of afterlife for sailors who have served at least 50 years at sea.
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 27 October 2015 Forty-Five Years Stan Rogers’s “45 Years” (or “Forty-Five Years”) is often considered to be one of the greatest love songs ever written, and certainly in the Canadian folk tradition
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 8 January 2015 Leezy Lindsay Lizie Lindsay is Child ballad 226 (Roud 94), existing in several variants (also known as "Lizzie Lindsay" or "Leezie Lindsay").
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 9 March 2014 Ballad Of Springhill "The Ballad Of Springhill" is perhaps the most famous of all the Springhill disaster songs, not least because of Peggy Seeger’s and Ewan MacColl’s high profiles in the folk music world.
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 9 March 2014 Don't Get Married Girls "Don't Get Married" is a song written by Leon Rosselson, which is best known for being covered in a single by The Dubliners, released in June 1987 and charting at No.24 in the Irish Charts. This is the only single to be released where Sean Cannon takes lead vocals.
Songs 19 January 2013 Drunken Sailor "Drunken Sailor" is a sea shanty, also known as "What Shall We Do with a/the Drunken Sailor?"
Songs 5 March 2012 Rattlin' Bog, The The Rattlin' Bog is an Irish folk song about a bog on the grounds of Collon Monastery, Collon, Co Louth in the Boyne Valley. Specifically In the woodlands of Collon Scout Campsite. Hence the popularity around the scouting campfire throughout Ireland.
Songs 28 February 2012 I'll Tell Me Ma "I'll Tell Me Ma" (also called "The Wind") is a well-known children's song.
Songs 28 February 2012 Molly Malone (Cockles and Mussels) "Molly Malone" (also known as "Cockles and Mussels" or "In Dublin's Fair City") is a popular song set in Dublin, Ireland, which has become the unofficial anthem of Dublin City.
Songs 25 February 2012 Unicorn, The "The Unicorn" is a song by Shel Silverstein that was made very popular by The Irish Rovers in 1968.
Songs 23 February 2012 Lily The Pink "Lily the Pink" is a 1968 song released by the UK comedy group The Scaffold. It is a modernisation of an older folk song titled "The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham".
Songs 23 February 2012 Whiskey In The Jar "Whiskey in the Jar" is a well-known Irish traditional song, set in the southern mountains of Ireland, often with specific mention of counties Cork and Kerry, as well as Fenit, a village in County Kerry.
Songs 22 February 2012 Orange And The Green, The "The Orange and the Green" or "The Biggest Mix-Up" is a humorous Irish folk song about a man whose father was a Protestant ("Orange") and whose mother was a Catholic ("Green").
Songs 19 February 2012 Maids When You’re Young "Maids When You're Young" is a bawdy song which is full of innuendo and risqué allusions. It would have been shocking in its day. It's also known as The Old Man Came Courting Me.
Songs 3 November 2011 Wild Rover, The "The Wild Rover" is the most widely performed Irish song, although its exact origins are unknown.
