Featured BUG Jam Videos 21 November 2024 2024 - November BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on November 20, 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.
Featured BUG Jams & Events 1 November 2024 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 12/24 1 November 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! December 18, 2024 Don your gay apparel and festive hats and join us for an evening of seasonal songs and revelry! Yule enjoy yours-elves! Our motto - you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 01/25 1 November 2024 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.
Songs 28 May 2015 Black Day in July "Black Day In July" is from Canadian singer/songwriter Gordon Lightfoot's third studio album "Did She Mention My Name? released in 1968 on the United Artists label. The album marked Lightfoot's first use of orchestration.
Songs 10 May 2015 Pussywillows, Cat-Tails "Pussywillows, Cat-tails" is the 8th track on Gordon Lightfoot's third album, "Did She Mention My Name", released in 1968.
Songs 9 May 2015 Daydream "Daydream" is a popular song written by John Sebastian, published in 1966. The song was originally recorded that year by Sebastian's group The Lovin' Spoonful and released on their album of the same title.
Songs 8 May 2015 Cruel To Be Kind "Cruel to Be Kind" is a 1979 single by Nick Lowe, co-written by Lowe and his former Brinsley Schwarz bandmate Ian Gomm, that peaked at No. 12 in both the UK and U.S. charts that summer.
Songs 29 April 2015 Fish And Whistle "Fish And Whistle" is a song written by American folk singer-songwriter John Prine and released in 1978 on his fifth album, Bruised Orange.
Songs 7 April 2015 Can't Take My Eyes Off You "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" is a 1967 song written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio. It was recorded as a single by Frankie Valli.
Songs 28 March 2015 Dream A Little Dream Of Me "Dream a Little Dream of Me" is a song, from circa 1931, with music by Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt and lyrics by Gus Kahn.
Songs 12 January 2015 Marvelous Toy, The "The Marvelous Toy" was written in 1961 by Tom Paxton an American folk singer and singer-songwriter who has had a music career spanning more than fifty years. In 2009, Paxton received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Songs 8 January 2015 Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream This 1950 folk classic "Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream" remains a powerful anti-war favourite. It is the most famous song written by U.S.-born, naturalized Canadian folk singer, Ed McCurdy.
Songs 8 January 2015 Mr. Bojangles "Mr. Bojangles" is a song written and originally recorded by American country music artist Jerry Jeff Walker for his 1968 album of the same title. The song is notated in two time signatures: 3/4 and 6/8.
Songs 4 January 2015 Circle (All My Life’s a Circle) "Circle" is a Harry Chapin song released on the Sniper and Other Love Songs album in 1972. It became the song that he typically finished his concerts with. This song is also known as All My Life's a Circle and Circles.
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 9 November 2014 If I Had A Hammer "If I Had a Hammer" was written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays in 1949, and was first recorded by their band the Weavers.
Songs 9 November 2014 Me And Bobby McGee "Me And Bobby McGee" was written by Kris Kristofferson and first recorded by Roger Miller. Roger Miller was the first artist to have a hit with the song, peaking with it at No. 12 on the US country chart in 1969.
Songs 8 November 2014 Piano Man "Piano Man" is the first single released by Billy Joel. It was released on November 2, 1973, and has been included on several subsequent albums. Joel's first major hit and his signature song, the song peaked at #25 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in April 1974.
Songs 31 October 2014 Takin' Care of Business "Takin' Care of Business" is a song written by Randy Bachman and first recorded by Canadian rock group Bachman–Turner Overdrive (BTO) for their 1973 album Bachman–Turner Overdrive II.
Songs 25 October 2014 Please Don't Bury Me John Edward Prine was an American country folk singer-songwriter. He was active as a composer, recording artist, live performer, and occasional actor from the early 1970s until his death, and was known for an often humorous style of original music that has elements of protest and social commentary.
Songs 9 July 2014 Ballad of Jesse James, The "Jesse James" is a 19th century American folk song about the outlaw of the same name, first recorded by Bentley Ball in 1919.
Songs 6 July 2014 Taxi "Taxi" is a song written and performed by Harry Chapin from his 1972 album Heads & Tales.
Songs 5 July 2014 Fox, The The Fox is a traditional folk song (Roud 131). It is also the subject of at least two picture books, The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night: An Old Song, illustrated by Peter Spier and Fox Went Out On A Chilly Night, by Wendy Watson.
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 8 June 2014 Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald, The "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a song written, composed, and performed by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot in 1976 to commemorate the sinking of the bulk carrier SS Edmund Fitzgerald on Lake Superior on November 10, 1975.
