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 13 October 2012 Ghost Riders In The Sky "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" is a song written in 1948 by American songwriter Stan Jones. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time. More than 50 performers have recorded versions of the song.
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 10 October 2012 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine "Kisses Sweeter than Wine" is a popular love song written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays in 1950, who released the song as a Decca single in 1951 with their group, The Weavers.
Songs 11 July 2012 Honolulu Rock-a Roll-a Moon Mullican once stated, "We gotta play music that'll make them goddamn beer bottles bounce on the table".
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 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 18 May 2012 Alcohol and Pills This song is by Fred Eaglesmith and appears on the album Lipstick, Lies & Gasoline (1997).
Songs 6 May 2012 Freight Train (Cotten) "Freight Train" is an American folk song written by Elizabeth Cotten (1895–1987) in the early 20th century, and popularized during the American folk revival and British skiffle period of the 1950s and 1960s.
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 2 May 2012 I Like Trains Frederick John Elgersma (born July 9, 1957), known by the stage name Fred Eaglesmith, is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter.
Songs 1 May 2012 Wagon Wheel "Wagon Wheel" is a song co-written by Bob Dylan (1973) and Ketch Secor of Old Crow Medicine Show (2004).
Songs 29 April 2012 Folsom Prison Blues "Folsom Prison Blues" is a song written in 1953 and first recorded in 1955 by American singer-songwriter Johnny Cash. The song combines elements from two popular folk styles, the train song and the prison song, both of which Cash continued to use for the rest of his career.
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 18 April 2012 Hockey Song, The "The Hockey Song" is a song written and originally performed by Canadian folksinger Stompin' Tom Connors. The song's first release was on Connors' 1973 album, Stompin' Tom and the Hockey Song.
Songs 15 April 2012 Sudbury Saturday Night "Sudbury Saturday Night" was originally released on Stompin' Tom Connors 1967 debut album "The Northlands' Own Tom Connors".
Songs 11 April 2012 Frankie And Johnny "Frankie and Johnny" (sometimes spelled "Frankie and Johnnie"; also known as "Frankie and Albert" or just "Frankie") is a traditional American popular song.
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 9 April 2012 Cripple Creek "Cripple Creek" is an Old Time Appalachian folk song for the fiddle, though it is often played on the banjo as well.
Songs 8 April 2012 Jolene "Jolene" is a song written and performed by American country music artist Dolly Parton. It was released in October 1973 as the first single and title track from her album of the same name.
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.
