Featured BUG Jams & Events 19 November 2025 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!
Featured BUG Jam 12/25 19 November 2025 BUG Ho-Ho-Holiday Jam! December 10, 2025 Don your gay apparel and festive hats and join us for an evening of seasonal songs and revelry! Yule enjoy yours-elves! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 01/26 19 November 2025 BUG Jam Live! January 14, 2026 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 17 October 2025 2025 - October BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Spooktacular Autumn Jam recorded on October 15, 2025, at the Ottawa Masonic Centre with 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 27 January 2012 Deep River Blues "Deep River Blues" is based on a song recorded in 1933 called “I’ve Got Them Big River Blues”, which was probably inspired by the cataclysmic flood of 1927 along the lower Mississippi River.
Songs 19 January 2012 Sloop John B "Sloop John B" is a Bahamian folk song from Nassau. A transcription by Richard Le Gallienne, titled "The John B. Sails" was published in 1916, and a version was included in Carl Sandburg's folk song book, The American Songbag, in 1927.
Songs 15 November 2011 Christmas in Prison "Christmas In Prison" is from the album "Sweet Revenge" the third album by American folk singer and songwriter John Prine, released in 1973.
Songs 15 November 2011 Auld Lang Syne "Auld Lang Syne" is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song (Roud # 6294).
Songs 3 November 2011 Big Rock Candy Mountains, The "Big Rock Candy Mountain", first recorded by Harry McClintock in 1928, is a folk music song about a hobo's idea of paradise.
Songs 2 November 2011 Hallelujah "Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian recording artist Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984).
Songs 31 October 2011 Song For A Winter's Night "Song for a Winter's Night" is a song written by Gordon Lightfoot, and first recorded for his 1967 album, The Way I Feel. Lightfoot actually recorded two versions of the song; the second appears on the 1975 album Gord's Gold, a greatest hits compilation on which other re-recordings also appeared.
Songs 16 October 2011 Those Were The Days "Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to the Russian romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" ("Дорогой длинною", literally "By the long road"), composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky.
Songs 14 October 2011 Werewolves of London "Werewolves of London" is a rock song composed by LeRoy Marinell, Waddy Wachtel, and Warren Zevon and performed by Zevon.
Songs 2 October 2011 Moondance "Moondance" is a popular song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and is the title song on his 1970 album Moondance. It's a song about autumn, the composer's favorite season.
Songs 1 October 2011 Turn! Turn! Turn! Turn! Turn! Turn!", sometimes known as "Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season)", is a song written by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s.
Songs 23 September 2011 Try To Remember "Try to Remember" was originally sung by Jerry Orbach in the Original Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks. The song made the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart three times in 1965 in versions by Ed Ames, Roger Williams, Barry McGuire, The Kingston Trio, The Sandpipers, and The Brothers Four.
Songs 10 September 2011 Circle Game, The "The Circle Game" dates back to 1967, when Joni Mitchell wrote it and Buffy Sainte-Marie became the first to record it, including the song on her album Fire & Fleet & Candlelight.
Songs 5 September 2011 Harvest Moon Harvest Moon" is a song written by Neil Young and was the first single released on his 1992 album, Harvest Moon.
Songs 23 August 2011 Sundown "Sundown" is a song by Canadian folk artist Gordon Lightfoot, released as a single in March 1974.
Songs 22 August 2011 Will The Circle Be Unbroken? "Will the Circle Be Unbroken?" is a popular Christian hymn written in 1907 by Ada R. Habershon with music by Charles H. Gabriel.
Songs 22 August 2011 Something To Sing About "Something to Sing About" is a patriotic song written by American folk singer Oscar Brand that sings the praises of the many different regions of Canada.
Songs 22 August 2011 Come Rain Or Come Shine "Come Rain Or Come Shine" is from David Francey's 2003 album "Skating Rink" for which he was a 2004 JUNO WINNER.
Songs 22 August 2011 Four Strong Winds "Four Strong Winds" is a song written by Canadian Ian Tyson in the early 1960s and recorded by Canadian folk duo Ian and Sylvia.
Songs 22 August 2011 You Ain't Goin' Nowhere "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" is a song written by Bob Dylan in 1967 in Woodstock, New York, during the self-imposed exile from public appearances that followed his July 29, 1966 motorcycle accident.
Songs 22 August 2011 Ring Of Fire "Ring of Fire", or "The Ring of Fire", is a song written by June Carter Cash and Merle Kilgore and recorded by Johnny Cash. The single appears on Cash's 1963 album, Ring of Fire: The Best of Johnny Cash.
Songs 22 August 2011 I'll Fly Away "I'll Fly Away", is a hymn written in 1929 by Albert E. Brumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company in a collection titled Wonderful Message. Brumley's writing was influenced in part by an older secular ballad.
Songs 22 August 2011 Hey Good Lookin' "Hey, Good Lookin'" is a 1951 song written and recorded by Hank Williams, and his version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.
Songs 20 August 2011 V'la l'bon vent "V'là l'bon vent" is a folksong on the theme of the 'trois canards' or three ducks, of which there are some 100 variants.
