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 3 March 2017 Leaving of Liverpool, The "(The) Leaving of Liverpool", also known as "Fare Thee Well, My Own True Love", is a folksong. Folklorists classify it as a lyric lament, and it was also used as a sea shanty, especially at the capstan.
Songs 8 February 2017 You're So Vain "You're So Vain" is a song written and performed by Carly Simon and released in November 1972.
Songs 8 February 2017 If You Could Read My Mind "If You Could Read My Mind" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot.
Songs 7 February 2017 Watching The River Run "Watching The River Run" was released in 1973 on Full Sail, the third album by singer/songwriter duo Loggins and Messina.
Songs 6 February 2017 Tennessee Whiskey DOWNLOAD THE SONGSHEETTennessee Whiskey (WORD) Tennessee Whiskey (PDF) You can play along with the video in GCEA tuning! "Tennessee Whiskey" is the title of a
Songs 2 February 2017 You Never Can Tell "You Never Can Tell", also known as "C'est La Vie" or "Teenage Wedding", is a song written by Chuck Berry. It was composed in the early 1960s while Berry was in federal prison for violating the Mann Act.
Songs 25 January 2017 Yodelady "Yodelady" is a song written and recorded by Canadian artist Old Man Luedecke and released on his 2015 album, Domestic Eccentric.
Songs 30 December 2016 Circle of Steel "Circle of Steel" is from Gordon Lightfoot's album, Sundown (1974).
Songs 6 November 2016 Red Poppy, The "The Red Poppy" was written by our own BUG member, Charles de Lint in 2004.
Songs 1 November 2016 Streets Of London "Streets of London" is a song written by Ralph McTell. It was first recorded for McTell's 1969 album Spiral Staircase but was not released in the United Kingdom as a single until 1974.
Songs 28 October 2016 House Of Gold "House of Gold" is a song written and recorded by American musical duo Twenty One Pilots, from their third studio album Vessel. The song initially appeared as a bonus track on their second self-released album Regional at Best, albeit with a different vocal track.
Songs 10 September 2016 John Henry Traditional Song circa late 1800s covered by Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bruce Springsteen, Big Bill Broonzy, Leadbelly...
Songs 30 August 2016 This Train Is Bound For Glory "This Train", also known as "This Train Is Bound for Glory", is a traditional American gospel song first recorded in 1922.
Songs 3 July 2016 Dink's Song "Dink's Song" (sometimes known as "Fare Thee Well") is an American folk song played by many folk revival musicians such as Pete Seeger, Fred Neil, Bob Dylan and Dave Van Ronk, as well as more recent musicians like Jeff Buckley.
Songs 3 July 2016 Lonesome Death of Ukulele Ike, The From Tom Russell's 2011 album, Mesabi, here is a great tribute song to "Ukulele Ike" Cliff Edwards.
Songs 3 July 2016 Rambling Rover, The The musical traditions of Ireland and Scotland have been extended through the singing and tenor banjo playing of Andy M. Stewart.
Songs 3 July 2016 Shady Grove "Shady Grove" is a traditional Appalachian folk song, common in the repertoire of bluegrass and old-time musicians of the Cumberlands.
Songs 22 June 2016 Covington Girl "Covington Girl" was written by David Olney, John Hadley, and Sergio Webb, and released on David Olney's album, Dutchman's Curve in 2010.
Songs 3 June 2016 Another Time and Place This song is from "From...Another Time & Place", an album by folk singer and guitarist Dave Van Ronk, released in 1995.
Songs 1 June 2016 Mummers’ Dance, The "The Mummers' Dance" is a single from the album The Book of Secrets in 1997. The song was a surprise hit in the United States, reaching #3 in the Adult Top 40, #17 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and #18 on The Billboard Hot 100.
Songs 29 May 2016 Both Sides Now "Both Sides, Now" is a song by Joni Mitchell, and one of her best-known songs. First recorded by Judy Collins in 1967, it subsequently appeared on Mitchell's 1969 album Clouds. She re-recorded the song in a lusher, orchestrated version for her 2000 album Both Sides Now.
Songs 26 May 2016 Home For A Rest "Home for a Rest" is a song by Canadian folk rock band Spirit of the West from their fourth studio album Save This House, released in 1990.
Songs 9 May 2016 Nobody "Nobody" is a popular song with music by Bert Williams and lyrics by Alex Rogers, published in 1905.
