Featured BUG Jam Videos 20 February 2025 2025 - February BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on February 19, 2025, at Red Bird Live - a full house of enthusiastic ukers despite 70 cm of snow creating a challenge! 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 03/25 1 January 2025 BUG Kitchen Party Jam Live @ Red Bird! March 19, 2025 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and shenanigans! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
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 5 December 2019 It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year" is a popular Christmas song written in triple time in 1963 by Edward Pola and George Wyle.
Songs 1 December 2019 Petit Papa Noël "Petit Papa Noël" (literally little Father Christmas) is a 1944 song written by Raymond Vincy and Henri Martinet. The song was performed by French singer/actor Tino Rossi in director Richard Pottier's film, Destins, in 1946.
Songs 25 November 2019 Pretty Paper "Pretty Paper" is a song written by country music singer-songwriter Willie Nelson in 1963.
Songs 22 November 2019 It Snowed A 2011 song written and recorded by Meaghan Smith, a Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, and visual artist. She writes songs on her guitar and sometimes her ukulele and piano.
Songs 21 November 2019 Old Toy Trains "Old Toy Trains" (sometimes titled "Little Toy Trains") is a Christmas song written and originally recorded by Roger Miller for his son, Dean. It was released in late 1967 as a single for Smash Records. The song ended an eight-year ban on Christmas single releases by the label.
Songs 8 November 2019 * Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Christmas/Holiday Songbook Here's a collection of fun Christmas/holiday/seasonal songs we use for our Christmas jam and outings! Be sure to check back as there will undoubtedly be additional songs (and maybe some corrections!)
Songs 8 November 2019 Blue Christmas "Blue Christmas" is a Christmas song written by Billy Hayes and Jay W. Johnson and most famously performed by Elvis Presley. It is a tale of unrequited love during the holidays and is a longstanding staple of Christmas music, especially in the country genre.
Songs 8 November 2019 Suzy Snowflake "Suzy Snowflake" is a song written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett, made famous by Rosemary Clooney in 1951 and released as a 78 RPM record by Columbia Records. Suzy is a snowflake playfully personified.
Songs 7 November 2019 I'll Marry Me A Curler DOWNLOAD THE SONGSHEETI’ll Marry Me A Curler (WORD) I’ll Marry Me A Curler (PDF) YOU CAN PLAY ALONG WITH BEN AND DAN'S VIDEO!
Songs 6 December 2018 Christmas All Over Again "Christmas All Over Again" is a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers released in 1992. The song is featured in the movies Home Alone 2: Lost In New York (1992) and Jingle All the Way (1996).
Songs 1 December 2018 Let It Be Christmas "Let It Be Christmas" (2002) is the eleventh studio album and the second Christmas album by American country music artist Alan Jackson.
Songs 22 November 2018 Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" is a novelty Christmas song. Written by Randy Brooks, the song was originally performed by the husband-and-wife duo of Elmo and Patsy Trigg Shropshire in 1979.
Songs 22 November 2018 My Mommy And Santa Claus A local cover of the song, My Mom and Santa Claus. This version was performed by Lonnie and Lottie sometime in the 1960s. Lonnie and Lottie were a brother and sister act who were popular with the fans in southwestern Ontario.
Songs 7 November 2018 Earl The Christmas Squirrel The Moffatts consisted of Scott Moffatt and his brothers Bob, Clint, and Dave, who are triplets.
Songs 26 November 2017 Put A Little Holiday In Your Heart Margaret LeAnn Rimes Cibrian (born August 28, 1982) is an American singer. Rimes rose to stardom at age 13 following the release of her version of the Bill Mack song "Blue", becoming the youngest country music star since Tanya Tucker in 1972.
Songs 25 November 2017 Takin' Care Of Christmas Track 1 off of Randy Bachman's holiday release 'Takin' Care of Christmas' 2008.
Songs 19 November 2017 Christmas Song Song, The Sophie Madeleine (born Sophie Ball) is an award-winning ukulele player from Brighton. She released three solo albums; her third album, Silent Cynic, was released on 1 November 2013.
Songs 30 December 2016 Circle of Steel "Circle of Steel" is from Gordon Lightfoot's album, Sundown (1974).
Songs 3 December 2016 We Need A Little Christmas "We Need a Little Christmas" is a popular Christmas song originating from Jerry Herman's Broadway musical, Mame, and first performed by Angela Lansbury in that 1966 production.
Songs 30 November 2016 Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake ‘Miss Hoolihan’s (or ‘Hooligan’s’) Christmas Cake’ was first popularized by one Harry Melville (‘The Irish Daisy’). The original version of the song seems to have been called "Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake".
Songs 23 December 2015 Frosty The Snowman, Tequila! This was presented by The Cachero Family at our Holly Jolly BUG Jam in December 2015. You can play along with their video using the (C) songsheet, although I've slightly altered the intro.
Songs 20 December 2015 Nuttin' For Christmas "Nuttin’ for Christmas" (also known as "Nothing for Christmas") is a novelty Christmas song written by Sid Tepper and Roy C. Bennett.
Songs 20 December 2015 Jolly Old St. Nicholas "Jolly Old Saint Nicholas" is a Christmas song written in 1881 by Benjamin Hanby, author of "Up on the House Top".
Songs 20 December 2015 Up On The Housetop "Up on the House Top" is a Christmas song written by Benjamin Hanby in 1864 in the town of New Paris, Ohio. It has been recorded by a multitude of singers, most notably Gene Autry in 1953. Hanby also wrote "Jolly Old St. Nicholas".
