Featured BUG Jams & Events 2 March 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 05/24 1 January 2024 BUG "Dance Party" Jam Live @ Red Bird! May 15, 2024 It's time for a May ukulele dance party and you're invited! 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 06/24 1 January 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! June 19, 2024 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN! And you don’t need to be any good.
Songs 29 March 2024 Ça fait rire les oiseaux "Ça fait rire les oiseaux" was released by La Compagnie Créole in 1986 and is one of their most popular songs. Words by Daniel Vangarde and music by Jean Kluger.
Songs 28 January 2024 Si jamais j'oublie "Si jamais j’oublie" is a beautiful and captivating song with lyrics by YCare (Assane Attyé) and music by Jean Etienne Maillard, and released as a single by the talented French singer, Zaz in 2015. In 2016, it was included as a bonus track on her album, Sur La Route.
Songs 21 June 2020 Ukuleles Across Canada Medley "Ukuleles Across Canada Medley" is a medley of songs written by a songwriter born in each province. To date, I haven't included songs by songwriters born in Yukon, Northwest Territories, or Nunavut, but they can always be added for another time. Happy Canada Day!
Songs 4 February 2020 La complainte du phoque en Alaska La Complaint du Phoque en Alaska was written by Michel Rivard (born September 27, 1951), a singer-songwriter and musician from Quebec.
Songs 1 December 2019 Petit Papa Noël "Petit Papa Noël" (literally little Father Christmas) is a 1944 song written by Raymond Vincy and Henri Martinet. The song was performed by French singer/actor Tino Rossi in director Richard Pottier's film, Destins, in 1946.
Songs 9 July 2012 Aux Champs-Elysées "Aux Champs-Elysées" was originally written in English under the title "Waterloo Road" (lyrics by Michael Anthony Deighan, music by Michael Wilshaw) and released by the British rock band Jason Crest.
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.
