Featured BUG Jam Videos 11 February 2026 2026 - February BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on February 11, 2026! 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.
Featured BUG Jams & Events 1 January 2026 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! It will always be on a Wednesday, but not necessarily the 3rd Wednesday of the month!
Featured BUG Jam 07/03/26 1 January 2026 BUG is back at "In From The Cold" - March 7, 2026! This has been a favourite BUG outing since 2011!
Featured BUG Jam 03/26 1 January 2026 BUG Kitchen Party Jam Live! March 18, 2026 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 great craic and ye dunna need to be any good.
Featured Photos 10 December 2025 BUG Jam Live! December 2025 So much ukulele fun on a beautiful, snowy winter night! Fabulous festive outfits, a terrific dessert buffet, and outstanding, enthusiastic singing from all of you!
Songs 22 February 2026 Gillis Mountain "Gillis Mountain" is a song written by Canadian singer/songwriter Raylene Rankin and recorded by Canadian music group The Rankin Family for their 1990 album, Fare Thee Well Love.
Songs 21 February 2026 Hurry Up, Harry "Hurry Up, Harry" is a traditional Canadian folk song c. 1849 - 1900) capturing life in an Ontario lumber camp. As sung by LaRena Clark and collected by Edith Fowke.
Songs 21 February 2026 St. Patrick's Day At Neville's "St. Patrick's Day At Neville's" was written by Mac Beattie and released by Mac Beattie & His Melodiers in 1965 on their album, "This Ottawa Valley of Mine".
Songs 21 February 2026 Saturday Night Up The Gatineau "Saturday Night Up The Gatineau" was written by Mac Beattie and released by Mac Beattie & His Melodiers in 1965 on their album, "This Ottawa Valley of Mine".
Songs 17 February 2026 Go Rosie Go "Go Rosie Go" was written by Maureen Ennis and Mark Murphy and recorded by The Ennis Sisters on their 2018 album, Keeping Time.
Songs 17 February 2026 Fare Thee Well Love "Fare Thee Well Love" is a song recorded by Canadian music group The Rankin Family. It was released in 1992 as the second single from their second studio album, Fare Thee Well Love.
Songs 5 March 2025 A Million Dollars Multiple award-winning Canadian singer/songwriter, Joel Plaskett, released the song "A Million Dollars" in 2011.
Songs 2 March 2025 Star Of The County Down "Star of the County Down" (Roud 4801) is an Irish ballad set near Banbridge in County Down, Northern Ireland. The words are by Cathal MacGarvey (1866–1927) from Ramelton, County Donegal.
Songs 1 March 2025 Has Anybody Seen My Skates "Has Anybody Seen My Skates" premiered on Hockey Day in Canada and was included on Lennie Gallant's album, Live Acoustic at the Carleton (2014), and Searching for Abegweit - Songs from the musical by Lennie Gallant (2016).
Songs 27 February 2025 A Place In The Choir American folk singer, Bill Staines, wrote A Place in the Choir (also known as The Animal Song, and All God’s Critters). He also made it into a children’s book. It is a popular song in Ireland and is often thought of as Irish.
Songs 26 February 2025 Island, The Kenzie MacNeil, Order of Nova Scotia (2 September 1952 – 24 July 2021) was a Canadian songwriter, performer, producer and director in television, film, radio and stage. MacNeil is best known for his song “The Island,” an unofficial anthem of Cape Breton Island.
Songs 30 October 2024 North Country "North Country" is a Canadian song written by Jimmy Rankin, and recorded by The Rankin Family for their album, North Country, released in 1993.
Songs 10 March 2024 Riddle Song, The "The Riddle Song", also known as "I Gave My Love a Cherry", descends from a 15th century English folk song, Child Ballad no. 1 and no. 46.
Songs 10 March 2024 Captain Wedderburn "Captain Wedderburn" was recorded by Great Big Sea with Sarah Harmer. It's based on "Captain Wedderburn's Courtship" an old Scottish ballad dating from 1785 or earlier - Child Ballad #46, Roud 36.
Songs 6 March 2024 Night Pat Murphy Died, The "The Night Pat Murphy Died" is a popular Newfoundland folk song regarding the death of a man and the antics of his friends as they engage in a traditional Irish wake. It is often attributed to Johnny Burke (1851–1930), a popular St. John's balladeer.
Songs 4 March 2024 Ol' Outport Museum "Ol' Outport Museum" is a song with lyrics written by Rob Starkes of La Scie, Newfoundland, in 2022. Music is based on The Great Rock Island Route published 1882 and later know as Wabash Cannonball.
Songs 3 March 2024 Muirsheen Durkin Johnny McEvoy’s recording of “Muirsheen Durkin” reached number 1 in Ireland in 1966.
Songs 1 March 2024 Bluenose Song, The "The Bluenose Song" also known as "Ballad of the Bluenose" is a maritime folk song written in 1966 by Michael Stanbury.
Songs 24 March 2023 Wasn't That A Party "Wasn't That A Party" was written and first released by American singer-songwriter Tom Paxton on April 10, 1973.
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 24 January 2022 Goin' Up The 1995 single "Goin' Up", from Great Big Sea's second studio album, peaked at #70 on the Canadian Singles Chart. The Up album is certified 4x platinum in Canada.
Songs 20 July 2021 Nowhere With You The single "Nowhere with You, written and recorded by Joel Plaskett in 2006, has received the most mainstream radio airplay of any Plaskett release to date, and was featured in a Zellers television commercial.
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
