Featured 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
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 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 BUG Jam 04/26 1 January 2026 BUG Jam Live! April 15, 2026 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN and you don’t 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 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.
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").
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.
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.
Songs 16 February 2017 Carrickfergus "Carrickfergus" is an Irish folk song, named after the town of Carrickfergus in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
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.
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.
Songs 3 July 2016 Shady Grove "Shady Grove" is a traditional Appalachian folk song, common in the repertoire of bluegrass and old-time musicians of the Cumberlands.
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.
Songs 5 June 2016 Saltwater Joys Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers is the name of 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").
Songs 1 June 2016 Mummers’ Dance, The "The Mummers' Dance" is a single from the album The Book of Secrets in 1997. The song was a surprise hit in the United States, reaching #3 in the Adult Top 40, #17 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart and #18 on The Billboard Hot 100.
Songs 26 May 2016 Home For A Rest "Home for a Rest" is a song by Canadian folk rock band Spirit of the West from their fourth studio album Save This House, released in 1990.
Songs 2 April 2016 Working Man Rita MacNeil, CM, ONS (May 28, 1944 – April 16, 2013) was a Canadian singer from the community of Big Pond on Nova Scotia's Cape Breton Island.
Songs 4 March 2016 When I Am King Great Big Sea was a Canadian folk rock band from Newfoundland and Labrador, best known for performing energetic rock interpretations of traditional Newfoundland folk songs including sea shanties, which draw from the island's 500-year-old Irish, Scottish, and Cornish heritage.
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 29 February 2016 Last Saskatchewan Pirate, The The Arrogant Worms, a Canadian comedy music group, wrote this popular song about a down-and-out farmer who takes up piracy on the Saskatchewan River, stealing shipments of grain and farm equipment from ships and barges.
Songs 25 February 2016 Mountain Dew/I’ll Tell Me Ma We're sure to have a grand time with this medley!
Songs 23 February 2016 Skye Boat Song "The Skye Boat Song" is a Scottish folk song, which can be played as a waltz.
Songs 18 February 2016 Mary Ellen Carter, The "The Mary Ellen Carter" is a song written and first recorded by Stan Rogers, intended as an inspirational shanty about triumphing over great odds. It tells the story of a heroic effort to salvage a sunken ship, the Mary Ellen Carter, by some members of her crew.
Songs 17 February 2016 Fiddler's Green Fiddler's Green is a legendary supposed afterlife, where there is perpetual mirth, a fiddle that never stops playing, and dancers who never tire. In 19th-century maritime folklore it was a kind of afterlife for sailors who have served at least 50 years at sea.
Songs 31 December 2015 Fisherman’s Blues Fisherman's Blues is a 1988 album by The Waterboys. The album marked a change in the band's sound, with them abandoning their earlier grandiose rock sound for a mixture of traditional Irish music, traditional Scottish music, country music, and rock and roll.
Songs 27 October 2015 Forty-Five Years Stan Rogers’s “45 Years” (or “Forty-Five Years”) is often considered to be one of the greatest love songs ever written, and certainly in the Canadian folk tradition
Songs 1 June 2015 Crawl, The "The Crawl" by Spirit of the West - the quintessential drinking song. This song, from their 1986 album "Tripping Up The Stairs", tells the story of the North Shore Pub Crawl in Vancouver BC. The Crawl was an enduring fan favourite at the band's concerts.
Songs 7 March 2015 By The Glow Of The Kerosene Light "By The Glow Of The Kerosene Light" was written by Wince Coles and recorded by Buddy Wasisname and the Other Fellers in 1993.
