Featured 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.
Featured 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!
Featured 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.
Featured 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!
Featured 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.
Featured 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.
Featured 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.
Featured 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!
Featured 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.
Featured 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.
Featured 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.
Songs 16 September 2024 Psycho Killer "Psycho Killer" is a song by American rock band Talking Heads, released on their debut studio album Talking Heads: 77 (1977). The group first performed it as the Artistics in 1974.
Songs 30 June 2024 Suddenly Last Summer "Suddenly Last Summer" is a new wave song written by Martha Davis and recorded by her new wave band The Motels, released as the lead single from their fourth album, Little Robbers (1983).
Songs 28 January 2024 Let My Love Open The Door "Let My Love Open the Door" is a song written and performed by Pete Townshend from his 1980 album Empty Glass.
Songs 25 April 2021 Dancing With Myself "Dancing with Myself" is a rock song first commercially released in the United Kingdom in October 1980 and then re-mixed and re-released by the band's singer/frontman Billy Idol as a solo artist in the United States in 1981, where the song reached #27 in the U.S. Billboard's Hot Dance Play Chart.
Songs 6 July 2018 Cruel Summer "Cruel Summer" is a song by the English group Bananarama. The song was a top-ten hit on the UK Singles Chart in 1983, and the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984.
Songs 15 April 2017 Echo Beach "Echo Beach" is a song written by Mark Gane recorded by the Canadian group Martha and the Muffins in 1979.
Songs 1 June 2016 Only The Lonely "Only the Lonely" is a song written by Martha Davis and recorded by the American new wave band The Motels, of which she was a member. It was released in 1982 as the first single from their third studio album All Four One.
Songs 25 April 2016 All Night Long "All Night Long (All Night)" was a hit single for American singer-songwriter Lionel Richie in 1983.
Songs 9 January 2016 Don't You Forget About Me "Don't You (Forget About Me)" is a 1985 song performed by the Scottish band Simple Minds.
Songs 31 December 2015 Down Under "Down Under" is a song recorded by Australian rock band Men at Work, originally released in 1980 as the B-side to their first local single titled "Keypunch Operator" that was released before the band signed with Columbia Records
Songs 31 December 2015 Don't You Want Me "Don't You Want Me" is a 1981 single by British synthpop group the Human League (credited on the cover as The Human League 100).
Songs 31 December 2015 Take On Me "Take On Me" is a song by Norwegian synthpop band A-ha, first released in 1984, and is considered to be the band's signature song.
Songs 31 December 2015 Mad World "Mad World" is a song by the British band Tears for Fears, written by Roland Orzabal and sung by bassist Curt Smith. It was the band's third single release and first chart hit, reaching #3 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1982.
Songs 31 December 2015 99 Red Balloons "99 Luftballons" (German Neunundneunzig Luftballons, "99 air balloons") is an anti-war protest song by the German band Nena from their 1983 self-titled album.
Songs 31 December 2015 Walking On Sunshine "Walking on Sunshine" is a song written by Kimberley Rew for Katrina and the Waves' 1983 eponymous debut full-length album.
Songs 28 December 2015 Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" is a song by British new wave music duo Eurythmics. It is the title track of their album of the same name (1983) and was released as the fourth and final single from the album in early 1983.
Songs 27 December 2015 Faith "Faith" is a song written and performed by George Michael, from his 1987 Faith album.
Songs 27 December 2015 Time After Time "Time After Time" is the second single by American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper from her debut studio album, She's So Unusual (1983), with Rob Hyman contributing backing vocals.
Songs 5 October 2015 Tainted Love “Tainted Love”, originally recorded by Gloria Jones in 1965 and again by Soft Cell in 1981.
Songs 8 May 2015 Cruel To Be Kind "Cruel to Be Kind" is a 1979 single by Nick Lowe, co-written by Lowe and his former Brinsley Schwarz bandmate Ian Gomm, that peaked at No. 12 in both the UK and U.S. charts that summer.
Songs 27 March 2015 Here Comes The Rain Again "Here Comes the Rain Again" is a 1983 song by British duo Eurythmics and the opening track from their third studio album Touch.
Songs 8 January 2015 Safety Dance, The "The Safety Dance" is a song written and recorded by Canadian new wave band Men Without Hats.
Songs 7 November 2014 Karma Chameleon "Karma Chameleon" is a song by English band Culture Club, featured on the group's 1983 album Colour by Numbers. The first recorded use of the phrase "karma chameleon" was sung by Toots and the Maytals at the end of the song "In The Dark" on their album "Funky Kingston."
