Kitchen Party

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Photos 17 April 2025

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird April 2025

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BUG Jam Videos 17 April 2025

2025 - April BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK

Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on April 16, 2025, at Red Bird Live with 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.

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BUG Jams & Events 1 January 2025

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!

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BUG Jam 05/25 1 January 2025

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! May 21, 2025

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

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BUG Jam 07/06/25 1 January 2025

BUGs Will Be Playing @ Unitarian House of Ottawa!

We're kicking off Seniors Month with residents, friends, and staff at Unitarian House on June 7, 2025!

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BUG Jam 06/25 1 January 2025

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! June 18, 2025

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

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BUG Jam 07/25 1 January 2025

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! July 16, 2025

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

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BUG Jam 08/25 1 January 2025

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! August 20, 2025

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

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BUG Jam 09/25 1 January 2025

We're On Vacation - No BUG Jam In September

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

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BUG Jam 10/25 1 January 2025

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! October 15, 2025

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

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BUG Jam 11/25 1 January 2025

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! November 19, 2025

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

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BUG Jam 12/25 1 January 2025

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! December 17, 2025

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

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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

"Mull River Shuffle" is a Canadian song written by Donald Angus Beaton, J.S. Skinner, Jimmy Rankin, and Wilfred Gillis, and recorded by The Rankin Family for their album, North Country, released in 1993.

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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 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 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

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 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 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).

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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).

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Songs 21 February 2017

Bonnie Banks O’ Loch Lomond, The

"The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond", or simply "Loch Lomond" for short, is a well-known traditional Scottish song (Roud No. 9598) first published in 1841 in Vocal Melodies of Scotland.

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Songs 20 February 2017

Shed Song, The

Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers is a musical and comedy trio from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, which is composed of Kevin Blackmore ("Buddy Wasisname"), Wayne Chaulk, and Ray Johnson ("The Other Fellers").

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Songs 19 February 2017

Song For The Mira

"Song For The Mira" is a contemporary folk song in the Celtic style, written in 1973 by Allister MacGillivray, a songwriter, guitarist, folklorist, author, record producer, born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia in 1948.

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Songs 18 February 2017

Connemara Cradle Song

The "Connemara Cradle Song" is a beautiful old Irish folksong whose original writer is not clear. It is a song of the sea and is sung as a lullaby.

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Songs 16 February 2017

Carrickfergus

"Carrickfergus" is an Irish folk song, named after the town of Carrickfergus in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Songs 12 January 2017

Garnet’s Home-Made Beer

"Garnet's Homemade Beer" is a parody of Barrett's Privateers from Ian Robb's recording "From Different Angels". Tune is the same as Barrett's Privateers by Stan Rogers, brother of the featured Garnet Rogers.

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Songs 3 November 2016

Seven Old Ladies (Got Stuck In A Lavatory)

"What Can the Matter Be?", also known as "Johnny's So Long at the Fair" is a traditional nursery rhyme that can be traced back as far as the 1770s in England. There are several variations on its lyrics.

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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.