Featured BUG Jam Videos 21 November 2024 2024 - November BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on November 20, 2024, at Red Bird Live - 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.
Featured BUG Jams & Events 1 November 2024 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!
Featured BUG Jam 12/24 1 November 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! December 18, 2024 Don your gay apparel and festive hats and join us for an evening of seasonal songs and revelry! Yule enjoy yours-elves! Our motto - you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 01/25 1 November 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! January 15, 2025 Happy New Year! Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN! And you don’t need to be any good.
Songs 16 October 2011 Those Were The Days "Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to the Russian romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" ("Дорогой длинною", literally "By the long road"), composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky.
Songs 20 August 2011 V'la l'bon vent "V'là l'bon vent" is a folksong on the theme of the 'trois canards' or three ducks, of which there are some 100 variants.
Songs 4 June 2011 Jack Was Every Inch A Sailor "Jack Was Every Inch A Sailor" is a traditional Newfoundland and Labrador folk song. It is a comical retelling of the Jonah tale, with a Newfoundland whaler as protagonist, but in this instance the whale gets his comeuppance.
Songs 2 May 2011 Show Me The Way To Go Home "Show Me the Way to Go Home" is a popular song written in 1925 by the English songwriting team Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly, using the pseudonym "Irving King".
Songs 2 May 2011 Vive la compagnie (Vive l’amour) "Vive La Compagnie" has many variations from around the world. Scouts adopted it as one of their tunes under "Vive l'Amour".
Songs 2 May 2011 Shaving Cream In 1946, Benny Bell released his three highest-selling songs: "Take a Ship for Yourself," "Pincus the Peddler" and the notorious "Shaving Cream".
Songs 23 April 2011 That's An Irish Lullaby (Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral) "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ral (That's an Irish Lullaby)" is a classic Irish-American song originally written in 1913 by composer James Royce Shannon (1881–1946) for the Tin Pan Alley musical Shameen Dhu.
Songs 17 April 2011 Time BUG Members Please A phrase called out at closing time in a pub. A bell usually rings ten or fifteen minutes before to alert people that the bar is closing so that they can order more drinks. Then at closing the bell rings again and the bar person can say "Time gentlemen please!"
Songs 12 April 2011 Black Velvet Band "The Black Velvet Band" is a very old song collected from singers in Ireland, Australia, England, Canada and the U.S., describing how a young man is tricked and then sentenced to transportation to Van Diemen's Land, a common punishment in the British Empire during the 19th century.
Songs 12 April 2011 I'm Looking Over A Four-leaf Clover "I'm Looking Over a Four Leaf Clover" is a song from 1927, written by Mort Dixon with music by Harry M. Woods.
Songs 12 April 2011 Donald, Where’s Your Troosers? "Donald Where's Your Troosers?" is a comic song about a Scotsman who wears a kilt rather than trousers. It was written by Andy Stewart with music by Neil Grant.
Songs 12 April 2011 Wild Mountain Thyme This is another of those songs which many people believe to be a traditional Scottish song, but like so many songs popularised during the 1960’s folk boom, is actually quite modern, having been copyrighted in 1957!
Songs 12 April 2011 Danny Boy "Danny Boy" is a ballad written by English songwriter Frederic Weatherly and usually set to the Irish tune of the "Londonderry Air".
Songs 26 February 2011 Farewell To Nova Scotia "Farewell to Nova Scotia" is a popular folk song from Nova Scotia of unknown authorship.
