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 13 October 2012 Swimming Song, The After the success of Loudon Wainwright III's "Dead Skunk," Columbia Records was eager for another "silly animal song" to appeal to the public.
Songs 13 October 2012 Long Black Veil "Long Black Veil" is a 1959 country ballad, written by Danny Dill and Marijohn Wilkin and originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell.
Songs 12 July 2012 Hotel California "Hotel California" is the title track from the Eagles' album of the same name and was released as a single in February 1977.
Songs 7 July 2012 As Tears Go By "As Tears Go By" is a song written by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Rolling Stones' manager Andrew Loog Oldham in 1964. Oldham subsequently gave the ballad (a format that the Stones were not yet known for) to Faithfull, then 17, for her to record as a B-side.
Songs 7 July 2012 Flowers On The Wall "Flowers on the Wall" is a song made famous by the country music group The Statler Brothers.
Songs 10 June 2012 Bad Moon Rising "Bad Moon Rising" is a song written by John Fogerty and performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival. It was the lead single from their album Green River and was released in April 1969, four months before the album.
Songs 9 June 2012 Weight, The "The Weight" is a song originally by the Canadian-American group The Band that was released in 1968; written by The Band member Robbie Robertson.
Songs 9 June 2012 Born to be Wild "Born to Be Wild" was released by Steppenwolf in 1968. It was the band's third single off their 1968 debut album Steppenwolf and became their most successful single, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles charts.
Songs 3 June 2012 Angel of the Morning Written and composed by New York City-born songwriter Chip Taylor, "Angel of the Morning" was originally offered to Connie Francis to sing, but she turned it down because she thought that it was too risqué for her career.
Songs 1 June 2012 Lookin' Out My Back Door "Lookin' Out My Back Door" is a song recorded by the American band Creedence Clearwater Revival, also known as CCR. The song was written by the band's lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter, John Fogerty.
Songs 18 May 2012 Alcohol and Pills This song is by Fred Eaglesmith and appears on the album Lipstick, Lies & Gasoline (1997).
Songs 8 May 2012 Canadian Railroad Trilogy The "Canadian Railroad Trilogy" is a song written, composed, and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot that describes the building of the trans-Canada Canadian Pacific Railway in the early 1880s.
Songs 6 May 2012 Night They Drove Old Dixie Down, The "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" is a song by The Band, recorded in 1969 and released on their eponymous second album.
Songs 5 May 2012 Bruised Orange (Chain Of Sorrow) The song "Bruised Orange" is from American singer-songwriter John Prine's fifth album of the same name released in 1978.
Songs 2 May 2012 Hobo's Lullaby Goebel Leon Reeves (October 9, 1899 – January 26, 1959) was an American folk singer. His most famous song is "Hobo's Lullaby", which he recorded in 1934 and released in 1936.
Songs 22 April 2012 Wabash Cannonball DOWNLOAD THE SONGSHEETWabash Cannonball (WORD) Wabash Cannonball (PDF) "The Great Rock Island Route", also known as "Wabash Cannonball" and various other titles, is an American
Songs 20 April 2012 Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms "Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms" is an American traditional song. Buck Owens covered it in 1971 as "Rollin' In My Sweet Baby's Arms".
Songs 20 April 2012 City Of New Orleans "City of New Orleans" is a folk song written by Steve Goodman (and first recorded for Goodman's self-titled 1971 album), describing a train ride from Chicago to New Orleans on the Illinois Central Railroad's City of New Orleans in bittersweet and nostalgic terms.
Songs 9 April 2012 Old Joe Clark "Old Joe Clark" is a US folk song, a mountain ballad that was popular among soldiers from eastern Kentucky during World War I and afterwards. Its lyrics refer to a real person named Joseph Clark, a Kentucky mountaineer who was born in 1839 and murdered in 1885.
Songs 7 April 2012 Peaceful Easy Feeling "Peaceful Easy Feeling" is a song written by Jack Tempchin and recorded by the Eagles. It was the third single from the band's 1972 debut album Eagles. The single reached No. 22 on the charts and is one of the band's most popular songs.
Songs 6 April 2012 Help Me Make It Through The Night "Help Me Make It Through The Night" is a country music ballad written and composed by Kris Kristofferson and released on his 1970 album Kristofferson.
Songs 2 April 2012 In Spite Of Ourselves "In Spite of Ourselves" is the 13th studio album of John Prine, featuring duets with various well-known female folk and alt-country vocalists, released in 1999.
Songs 2 April 2012 King Of The Road "King of the Road" is a 1964 song written and originally recorded by country singer Roger Miller.The popular crossover record hit No. 1 on the US Country chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, and No. 1 on the Easy Listening surveys. It was also No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart, and in Norway.