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 BUG Jam Videos 11 February 2026 2026 - February BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on February 11, 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 1 January 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 03/26 1 January 2026 BUG Kitchen Party Jam Live! March 18, 2026 Join us for some fine tunes, shenanigans, and a wee tipple to ward off the last chill of winter! Sure we'll have a whale of a time! It's great craic and ye dunna need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 04/26 1 January 2026 BUG Jam Live! April 15, 2026 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
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 22 February 2026 Gillis Mountain "Gillis Mountain" is a song written by Canadian singer/songwriter Raylene Rankin and recorded by Canadian music group The Rankin Family for their 1990 album, Fare Thee Well Love.
Songs 22 February 2026 Fare Thee Well Love "Fare Thee Well Love" is a song recorded by Canadian music group The Rankin Family. It was released in 1992 as the second single from their second studio album, Fare Thee Well Love.
Songs 5 May 2025 Mademoiselle (Voulez-vous Danser) "Mademoiselle (Voulez-vous Danser)" is a song written and recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter, Lennie Gallant, and released on his 1994 album, The Open Window.
Songs 5 March 2025 A Million Dollars Multiple award-winning Canadian singer/songwriter, Joel Plaskett, released the song "A Million Dollars" in 2011.
Songs 1 March 2025 Has Anybody Seen My Skates "Has Anybody Seen My Skates" premiered on Hockey Day in Canada and was included on Lennie Gallant's album, Live Acoustic at the Carleton (2014), and Searching for Abegweit - Songs from the musical by Lennie Gallant (2016).
Songs 26 February 2025 Island, The Kenzie MacNeil, Order of Nova Scotia (2 September 1952 – 24 July 2021) was a Canadian songwriter, performer, producer and director in television, film, radio and stage. MacNeil is best known for his song “The Island,” an unofficial anthem of Cape Breton Island.
Songs 30 October 2024 North Country "North Country" is a Canadian song written by Jimmy Rankin, and recorded by The Rankin Family for their album, North Country, released in 1993.
Songs 1 March 2024 Bluenose Song, The "The Bluenose Song" also known as "Ballad of the Bluenose" is a maritime folk song written in 1966 by Michael Stanbury.
Songs 20 July 2021 Nowhere With You The single "Nowhere with You, written and recorded by Joel Plaskett in 2006, has received the most mainstream radio airplay of any Plaskett release to date, and was featured in a Zellers television commercial.
Songs 2 March 2018 Mull River Shuffle, The "Mull River Shuffle" is a Canadian song written by Donald Angus Beaton, J.S. Skinner, Jimmy Rankin, and Wilfred Gillis, and recorded by The Rankin Family for their album, North Country, released in 1993.
Songs 29 April 2017 Sonny’s Dream "Sonny's Dream" (also known as "Sonny") is a folk song written by Newfoundlander Ron Hynes in 1976.
Songs 27 October 2015 Forty-Five Years Stan Rogers’s “45 Years” (or “Forty-Five Years”) is often considered to be one of the greatest love songs ever written, and certainly in the Canadian folk tradition
Songs 7 March 2015 By The Glow Of The Kerosene Light "By The Glow Of The Kerosene Light" was written by Wince Coles and recorded by Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers in 1993.
Songs 26 February 2011 Farewell To Nova Scotia "Farewell to Nova Scotia" is a popular folk song from Nova Scotia of unknown authorship.
