Featured BUG Jam 02/23 1 January 2023 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! February 22, 2023 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! Its’ FREE and you don’t need to be any good. This is the type of BUG you WANT to catch!
Featured BUG Jam 03/23 1 January 2023 It's Hooley Time! BUG Kitchen Party Jam Live @ Red Bird! March 15, 2023 Don your festive finery and join us for some fine tunes, shenanigans, and a wee tipple to ward off the last chill of winter! Sure we'll have a whale of a time! It's FREE and ye dunna need to be any good. 'Tis the kind of BUG ye'll be WANTIN' to catch!
Featured BUG Jam 18/03/23 1 January 2023 BUG is back at "In From The Cold" - March 18, 2023! This has been a favourite BUG outing since 2011 and we’re so happy to be getting back there after the Covid hiatus!
Featured BUG Jam 04/23 1 January 2023 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! April 19, 2023 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! Its’ FREE and you don’t need to be any good. This is the type of BUG you WANT to catch!
Songs 28 November 2022 A Children's Winter "A Children's Winter" was written and recorded by Dermot O'Reilly, a well-known member of Ryan's Fancy, in the mid-1970's.
Songs 30 March 2021 Rambles Of Spring, The "The Rambles Of Spring" was an original composition by Tommy Makem which was introduced on The Makem & Clancy Concert album in 1977.
Songs 12 January 2021 Wellerman (Soon May The Wellerman Come) Traditional New Zealand folksong that dates back to the mid-19th century
Songs 7 March 2020 Town Of Ballybay, The Ballybay (Irish: Béal Átha Beithe, meaning "mouth of the ford of the birch") is a town in County Monaghan, Ireland. It is centered on the crossroads of the R183 and R162 regional roads.
Songs 5 March 2020 Belfast Mill This song is a cover/adaptation of "Aragon Mill" a song written by American Si Kahn in 1970 and released on his 1974 album, New Wood, (see the separate listing on the SONGS page for the original "Aragon Hill").
Songs 6 May 2018 Toora Loora Lay Following the success of The Stable Session album in 2014, Na Fianna joined forces with producer Bill Shanley of Cauldron Studios to record their first studio album. This song, "Toora Loora Lay", is found on their album Unearthed.
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 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 24 February 2017 McNamara's Band "McNamara's Band" (originally "MacNamara's Band") is a popular song composed in 1889 by Shamus O'Connor (music) and John J. Stamford (lyrics).
Songs 30 November 2016 Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake ‘Miss Hoolihan’s (or ‘Hooligan’s’) Christmas Cake’ was first popularized by one Harry Melville (‘The Irish Daisy’). The original version of the song seems to have been called "Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake".
Songs 29 February 2016 Mary Mack Mary Mack is a Scottish folk song, a patter song, often sung with a rapid to very rapid tempo, increasing toward the end.
Songs 25 February 2016 Mountain Dew/I’ll Tell Me Ma We're sure to have a grand time with this medley!
Songs 19 January 2013 Drunken Sailor "Drunken Sailor" is a sea shanty, also known as "What Shall We Do with a/the Drunken Sailor?"
Songs 5 March 2012 Rattlin' Bog, The The Rattlin' Bog is an Irish folk song about a bog on the grounds of Collon Monastery, Collon, Co Louth in the Boyne Valley. Specifically In the woodlands of Collon Scout Campsite. Hence the popularity around the scouting campfire throughout Ireland.
Songs 28 February 2012 Molly Malone (Cockles and Mussels) "Molly Malone" (also known as "Cockles and Mussels" or "In Dublin's Fair City") is a popular song set in Dublin, Ireland, which has become the unofficial anthem of Dublin City.
Songs 25 February 2012 Unicorn, The "The Unicorn" is a song by Shel Silverstein that was made very popular by The Irish Rovers in 1968.
Songs 23 February 2012 Beer, Beer, Beer "Beer, Beer, Beer", also titled "An Ode to Charlie Mopps - The Man Who Invented Beer" and "Charlie Mopps", is a folk song originating in the British Isles.
Songs 23 February 2012 Lily The Pink "Lily the Pink" is a 1968 song released by the UK comedy group The Scaffold. It is a modernisation of an older folk song titled "The Ballad of Lydia Pinkham".
Songs 23 February 2012 Mairi’s Wedding Mairi's Wedding (also known as Marie's Wedding, the Lewis Bridal Song, or Mairi Bhan) is a Scottish folk song originally written in Gaelic by John Roderick Bannerman (1865–1938) for Mary C. MacNiven (1905–1997) on the occasion of her winning the gold medal at the National Mòd in 1934.
Songs 22 February 2012 Orange And The Green, The "The Orange and the Green" or "The Biggest Mix-Up" is a humorous Irish folk song about a man whose father was a Protestant ("Orange") and whose mother was a Catholic ("Green").
Songs 31 October 2011 Gypsy Rover, The The Whistling Gypsy, sometimes known simply as The Gypsy Rover, is a well-known ballad composed and copyrighted by Dublin songwriter Leo Maguire in the 1950s.
Songs 12 April 2011 Donald, Where’s Your Troosers? "Donald Where's Your Troosers?" is a comic song about a Scotsman who wears a kilt rather than trousers. It was written by Andy Stewart with music by Neil Grant.
Songs 12 April 2011 Wild Mountain Thyme This is another of those songs which many people believe to be a traditional Scottish song, but like so many songs popularised during the 1960’s folk boom, is actually quite modern, having been copyrighted in 1957!
