Kitchen Party

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BUG Jam 06/23 1 January 2023

Oh Canada! BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! June 21, 2023

Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FREE and you don’t need to be any good.

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BUG Jam 01/07/23 1 January 2023

Canada Day Ukulele Fun, July 1, 2023!

The Vernon Ukulele Players have invited the Bytown Ukulele Group and all ukers in the Ottawa-Gatineau region to join them once again to entertain at the Vernon Ontario Canada Day festivities!

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BUG Jam 07/23 1 January 2023

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! July 19, 2023

Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FREE and you don’t need to be any good.

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BUG Jam 08/23 1 January 2023

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! August 16, 2023

Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FREE and you don’t need to be any good.

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BUG Jams & Events 1 January 2023

We're On Vacation - No BUG Jam In September

But Mark and I will be back before you know it!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Songs 12 January 2021

Wellerman (Soon May The Wellerman Come)

Traditional New Zealand folksong that dates back to the mid-19th century

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Songs 7 March 2020

Chevaliers de la Table Ronde

"Chevaliers de la Table Ronde" (The Knights of the Round Table) constitute a legendary order in the service of King Arthur whom the latter commissioned to lead the quest for the Grail and to ensure the peace of the kingdom.

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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.

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Songs 6 March 2020

Rosin The Bow (a.k.a “Ol’ Rosin the Beau”)

The traditional, "Rosin the Bow" (not "Beau") refers to rosin with the bow of a violin, but both "Rosin the Bow" and "Rosin the Beau" cover the same general subject.

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Songs 6 March 2020

I Know My Love

"I Know My Love" is a traditional Irish folk song, which was first collected by Herbert Hughes and published by Boosey & Hawkes in 1909, in Volume 1 of "Irish Country Songs" - although the song is likely to be considerably older than that.

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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").

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Songs 13 March 2019

* Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Kitchen Party Songbook

Here's the BUG Kitchen Party Songbook, Chord Chart, and the YouTube playlist with the songs for our annual BUG Kitchen Party Jam Hooley!

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Songs 11 March 2019

When Will We Be Married

Traditional as performed by The Waterboys on their album Fisherman's Blues.

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Songs 1 March 2019

Grey Foggy Day

Eddie Coffey is a legendary Newfoundland songwriter-entertainer who has penned some of the province's most well-loved songs including the anthemic, Grey Foggy Day.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Songs 2 March 2018

Mull River Shuffle, The

DOWNLOAD THE SONGSHEETThe Mull River Shuffle (WORD) The Mull River Shuffle (PDF) TO PLAY ALONG IN THE SAME KEY IN GCEA TUNING, YOU'D HAVE TO

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Songs 26 February 2018

There Is A Tavern In The Town

"There Is a Tavern in the Town" is a traditional folk song first appearing in the 1883 edition of William H. Hill's Student Songs. The song was the college anthem of Trinity University College.

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Songs 26 February 2018

Closing Time

"Closing Time" is a song by American rock band Semisonic. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 1999.

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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.

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Songs 23 August 2017

Row Bullies Row

Traditional song, also called "Liverpool Judies". The song sheet is based on the Ewan McColl and A.L. Lloyd recording from 1957.

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Songs 29 April 2017

Sonny’s Dream

"Sonny's Dream" (also known as "Sonny") is a folk song written by Newfoundlander Ron Hynes in 1976.

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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.

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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.

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Songs 28 February 2017

Peein’ In The Snow

Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers are a folk music and comedy act formed in Glovertown, NL, in 1983, with Kevin Blackmore (vocals, mandolin, fiddle, guitar), Wayne Chaulk (vocals, guitar, mandolin), and Ray Johnson (vocals, accordion, fiddle).