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 01/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! January 15, 2025 Happy New Year! 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 02/25 1 January 2025 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! February 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 03/25 1 January 2025 BUG Kitchen Party Jam Live @ Red Bird! March 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 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 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.
Featured BUG Jam Videos 20 December 2024 2024 - December BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on December 18, 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.
Songs 9 July 2014 Down By The Riverside Down by the Riverside" (also known as "Ain't Gonna Study War No More" and "Gonna lay down my burden") is a spiritual.
Songs 4 July 2014 Tom Dooley "Tom Dooley" is an old North Carolina folk song based on the 1866 murder of a woman named Laura Foster in Wilkes County, North Carolina, allegedly by Tom Dula.
Songs 1 June 2014 Farmer’s Song, The “The Farmer’s Song” is about the changes in the farming in that have taken place in America (and Canada), especially since World War Two.
Songs 28 February 2014 Seven Spanish Angels "Seven Spanish Angels" is a song written by Troy Seals and Eddie Setser, and recorded by Ray Charles as a duet with Willie Nelson in 1984.
Songs 22 January 2014 Perhaps Love "Perhaps Love" is a song that John Denver wrote and originally recorded as a duet with Plácido Domingo. The song appeared on Domingo's 1981 album of the same title. "Perhaps Love" is the only song on the album with Denver's vocals alongside Domingo's.
Songs 5 January 2014 One On The Right Is On The Left, The "The One on the Right Is on the Left" is a country song written by Jack Clement. It was recorded by Johnny Cash on November 29, 1965 and included on his album Everybody Loves a Nut (1966).
Songs 28 October 2013 I'm Leaving Now "I'm Leaving Now" appeared on Johnny Cash's 70th album, "RAINBOW", his last for Columbia Records, released in 1985. It also appeared fifteen years later as a track on Cash's American III: Solitary Man.
Songs 26 October 2013 Copperhead Road "Copperhead Road" is a song written and recorded by American country music artist Steve Earle. It was released in 1988 as the first single and title track from his third studio album of the same name.
Songs 26 October 2013 Spanish Pipedream "Spanish Pipedream" was included on John Prine, the first album by American country/folk singer-songwriter John Prine, issued by Atlantic Records in 1971.
Songs 25 October 2013 Alone And Forsaken Hank Williams' recording of "Alone And Forsaken" was taken from one of his performances on the Shreveport radio station KWKH between August 1948 and May 1949.
Songs 25 October 2013 On the Road Again "On the Road Again" is a song written and made famous by American country music singer Willie Nelson.
Songs 21 October 2013 Our Town Anybody that was a fan of the show Northern Exposure will recognize this as the song from the final scene of the final episode.
Songs 21 October 2013 Pancho and Lefty "Pancho and Lefty" is a song written by country music artist Townes Van Zandt. Often considered his "most enduring and well-known song," Van Zandt first recorded it for his 1972 album The Late Great Townes Van Zandt.
Songs 18 May 2013 Big Joe Mufferaw Big Joe Mufferaw was a French Canadian folk hero from the Ottawa Valley, perhaps best known today as the hero of a song by Stompin' Tom Connors.
Songs 18 May 2013 Lucille Frederick John Elgersma (born July 9, 1957), known by the stage name Fred Eaglesmith, is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter. He is known for writing songs about vehicles, rural life, down-and-out characters, lost love and quirky rural folk.
Songs 18 May 2013 Someday Soon "Someday Soon" is a song composed by Canadian singer/songwriter Ian Tyson. He first recorded this song while married to musical partner Sylvia Tyson in 1964 on the album Northern Journey.
Songs 1 May 2013 Dead Flowers "Dead Flowers" is a song recorded by the Rolling Stones. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it appears on their 1971 album Sticky Fingers as the fourth track of side two.
Songs 23 February 2013 I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is a song recorded by American country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams in 1949.
Songs 19 January 2013 Margaritaville "Margaritaville" is a 1977 song by American popular music singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett from the album Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes.
Songs 8 December 2012 Christmas In The Valley "Christmas In The Valley" is a song written by Ottawa Valley's own talented Wayne Rostad
Songs 4 December 2012 An Old Christmas Card Many of Jim Reeves' Christmas songs have become perennial favorites including "C-H-R-I-S-T-M-A-S", "Blue Christmas" and "An Old Christmas Card".
Songs 25 October 2012 Long May You Run "Long May You Run" is a studio album credited to the Stills-Young Band, a collaboration between Stephen Stills and Neil Young, released in 1976 on Reprise Records.
