Featured BUG Jams & Events 23 December 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 01/25 23 December 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.
Featured BUG Jams & Events 23 December 2024 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 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 5 April 2018 Wayfaring Stranger "The Wayfaring Stranger" (also known as "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" or "I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger"), is a well-known American folk and gospel song likely originating in the early 19th century about a plaintive soul on the journey through life.
Songs 8 March 2018 Ballad of Bowser MacRae From David Francey's album "Right of Passage" 2007, which won a 2008 Juno award for best Roots/Traditional album! David says: "One of the most interesting people I have met on my travels, Greg (Bowser) MacRae was the third mate on the MV Algoville" - a Lake Boat.
Songs 3 March 2018 Old Dun Cow Caught Fire, The The Old Dun Cow Caught Fire is a music hall song written by Harry Wincott in 1893 (oft described as the "King of Comic Song") who wrote many famous tunes but was paid so little for his work that he died a poor man in 1947 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Yeovil.
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 24 February 2018 When You and I Were Young, Maggie "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" is a famous folk song, popular song and standard. In 2005, the song was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Songs 8 February 2018 Big River "Big River" is a song written and originally recorded by Johnny Cash. Released as a single by Sun Records in 1958, it went as high as #4 on the Billboard country music charts and stayed on the charts for 14 weeks.
Songs 28 January 2018 Wildflowers "Wildflowers" is a popular song by Tom Petty, the opening track from the eponymous 1994 album.
Songs 20 January 2018 Hello In There "Hello In There" is from John Prine's debut album, "John Prine" (1971).
Songs 17 November 2017 Red Canvas Canoe This is for all you canoeists out there. I hope you enjoy this sweet, simple song sung by Lorraine McDonald. It comes from the CD Canoesongs Voume II.
Songs 26 October 2017 Time In A Bottle "Time in a Bottle" is a hit single by singer-songwriter Jim Croce. Croce wrote the lyrics after his wife Ingrid told him she was pregnant, in December 1970. It appeared on his 1972 ABC debut album You Don't Mess Around with Jim.
Songs 25 October 2017 Cold Cold Ground "Cold Cold Ground" is a song from Tom Waits' 10th studio album "Franks Wild Years" released in 1987.
Songs 20 July 2017 Sound Of Silence, The "The Sound of Silence", originally "The Sounds of Silence", is a song by the American music duo Simon & Garfunkel, written by Paul Simon over a period of several months in 1963 and 1964
Songs 11 July 2017 I Make The Dough, You Get The Glory Kathleen Edwards (born July 11, 1978) is a Canadian singer-songwriter and musician. Edwards, the daughter of a diplomat, spent portions of her youth in Korea and Switzerland.
Songs 11 June 2017 Evangeline Canadian Robbie Robertson of The Band wrote the song "Evangeline" in 1976 and performed it with Emmylou Harris and The Band.
Songs 2 June 2017 Souvenirs "Souvenirs" was written by Canadian singer/songwriter Colleen Peterson in 1976.
Songs 1 May 2017 Soak Up The Sun "Soak Up the Sun" is the title of a song recorded by American artist Sheryl Crow. It was released in March 2002 as the lead single from her album C'mon C'mon.
Songs 29 April 2017 You're No Good "You're No Good" is a song written by Clint Ballard, Jr., first performed by Dee Dee Warwick for Jubilee Records in 1963 with production by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
Songs 25 April 2017 Somewhere Over The Rainbow-What A Wonderful World (Israel Kamakawiwoʻole) "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World" is a medley of the songs "Over the Rainbow" and "What a Wonderful World" arranged and sung by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole and released on his albums Ka ʻAnoʻi and Facing Future.
Songs 22 April 2017 Hang Me, Oh Hang Me Dave Van Ronk just missed the boat—check out the Cohen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis to get my meaning.
Songs 3 March 2017 Seven Drunken Nights "Seven Drunken Nights" is an Irish version of a humorous folk song most famously performed by The Dubliners.
