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BUG Jam Videos 21 May 2026

2026 - May BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK

Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on May 20, 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.

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Photos 20 May 2026

BUG Jam Live! May 2026

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Photos 7 March 2026

BUGs play at In From The Cold at Parkdale United Church - March 2026

Mark and I want to thank each and every one of the amazing volunteers who made the time today to join us for the In

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BUG Jams & Events 1 March 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!

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BUG Jam 06/26 1 March 2026

BUG Jam Live! June 17, 2026

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

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BUG Jam 07/26 1 March 2026

BUG Jam Live! July 15, 2026

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 08/26 1 March 2026

BUG Jam Live! August 19, 2026

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 Jams & Events 1 March 2026

We're On Vacation - No BUG Jam In September 2026

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

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BUG Jam 10/26 1 March 2026

BUG Jam Live! October 21, 2026

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 11/26 1 March 2026

BUG Jam Live! November 18, 2026

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 12/26 1 March 2026

BUG Jam Live! December 9, 2026

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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Photos 11 February 2026

BUG Jam Live! February 2026

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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!

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Photos 17 April 2025

BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird April 2025

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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.

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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 19 June 2020

Black Rum And Blueberry Pie 🍁

DOWNLOAD THE SONGSHET Black Rum And Blueberry Pie (WORD) Black Rum And Blueberry Pie (PDF) YOU CAN PLAY IN THE SAME KEY AS THE VIDEO!

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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 7 March 2020

Chevaliers de la Table Ronde 🍁

"Chevaliers de la table ronde" (also known as Goûtons voir si le vin est bon) is a traditional French song from the 18th century.

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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 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

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

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).

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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.