Featured BUG Jam Videos 21 October 2026 2026 - October BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam Spooktacular recorded on October 21, 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 24 August 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 11/26 24 August 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 24 August 2026 BUG Jam Live! December 9, 2026 Don your gay apparel and festive hats and join us for an evening of seasonal songs and revelry! Yule enjoy yours-elves! 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 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 mashup was presented by The Cachero Family at our Holly Jolly BUG Jam in December 2015.
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".
Songs 9 December 2015 Cool Yule "Cool Yule" is a 1953 Christmas song written by Steve Allen and introduced by Louis Armstrong.
Songs 5 December 2015 Christmas Island "Christmas Island" was written by American composer and songwriter, Lyle Moraine, in 1946, and it was first recorded by The Andrews Sisters with Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, in the same year.
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 4 December 2014 Present Face Garfunkel and Oates is an American comedy–folk duo operating out of Los Angeles, California, consisting of actresses and songwriters Riki Lindhome (Garfunkel) and Kate Micucci (Oates). The band name is derived from "two famous rock-and-roll second bananas", Art Garfunkel and John Oates.
Songs 4 December 2014 All I Want for Christmas Is You "All I Want for Christmas Is You" is a Christmas song performed by American singer and songwriter Mariah Carey, released on November 1, 1994. It is also considered the best-selling modern day Christmas song of all time.
Songs 27 November 2014 Let the Good Guys Win 🍁 This song was written by Canadian Murray McLauchlan, and sung by Murray, Tom Cochran, and Paul Hyde. McLauchlan was born in Scotland, but he immigrated to Canada with his family when he was five years old.
Songs 27 November 2014 Aspenglow "Aspenglow" is by John Denver and appears on the album "Take Me To Tomorrow" (1970) and on the album "Rocky Mountain Christmas" (1975).
Songs 26 November 2014 Noël est arrivé Traditional French Christmas song as covered by Charles de Lint
Songs 26 November 2014 Christmas Time's A-Comin' "Christmas Time's A-Comin'" is a popular bluegrass Christmas standard song written by Bell Labs engineer Benjamin "Tex" Logan.
Songs 24 November 2014 It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" is a Christmas song written in 1951 by Meredith Willson. The song was originally titled "It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas".
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 10 December 2013 Happy Xmas (War Is Over) "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" is a Christmas song released in 1971 as a single by John & Yoko/Plastic Ono Band with the Harlem Community Choir. The lyrics, by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, are set to the traditional English ballad "Skewball" - in America, the name was changed to "Stewball".
Songs 8 December 2013 Twelve Days of Christmas, The The best known English version was first printed in English in 1780 in a little book intended for children, Mirth without Mischief, as a Twelfth Night "memories-and-forfeits" game.
Songs 8 December 2013 Must Be Santa "Must Be Santa" is a Christmas song written by Hal Moore and Bill Fredericks and first released in November 1960 by Mitch Miller. A cover version by Tommy Steele reached Number 40 on the UK Singles Chart in the same year.
Songs 3 December 2013 Canadian Twelve Days of Christmas, The 🍁 "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol that enumerates in the manner of a cumulative song a series of increasingly numerous gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas (the twelve days that make up the Christmas season, starting with Christmas Day).
Songs 23 November 2013 I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus J’ai vu maman embrasser le Père Noël "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" is a Christmas song with music and lyrics by British songwriter Tommie Connor.
Songs 16 December 2012 White Christmas "White Christmas" is a 1942 Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The version sung by Bing Crosby is the world's best-selling single with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide.
