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Featured BUG Jam 05/24 1 January 2024 BUG "Dance Party" Jam Live @ Red Bird! May 15, 2024 It's time for a May ukulele dance party and you're invited! Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! Don't worry - no dancing required just enthusiastic uke playing and singing! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 06/24 1 January 2024 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! June 19, 2024 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FUN! And you don’t need to be any good.
Songs 10 March 2024 Captain Wedderburn "Captain Wedderburn" was recorded by Great Big Sea with Sarah Harmer. It's based on "Captain Wedderburn's Courtship" an old Scottish ballad dating from 1785 or earlier - Child Ballad #46, Roud 36.
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 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 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 23 February 2016 Skye Boat Song "The Skye Boat Song" is a Scottish folk song, which can be played as a waltz.
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 31 December 2015 I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" is a song written and performed by Scottish duo The Proclaimers (Charlie and Craig Reid), and first released as the lead single from their 1988 album Sunshine on Leith.
Songs 9 January 2015 Green Grow The Rashes O "Green Grow The Rashes O" is one of Robert Burns' earliest songs, originally without the final verse.
Songs 8 January 2015 Leezy Lindsay Lizie Lindsay is Child ballad 226 (Roud 94), existing in several variants (also known as "Lizzie Lindsay" or "Leezie Lindsay").
Songs 2 November 2014 Hielan’ Laddie "Highland Laddie", also known as "Hielan' Laddie", is the name of a Scottish popular folk tune "If thou'lt play me fair play", but as with many old melodies various sets of words can be sung to it, of which Robert Burns's poem "Highland Laddie" is probably the best known.
Songs 11 March 2014 Doon In The Wee Room The Wee Room of the song was in Quin's Bar in Glasgow, Scotland, which no long exists, but the Scotia Pub in Glasgow had a famous Wee Room too.
Songs 8 April 2013 Sunshine Superman "Sunshine Superman" is a song written and recorded by Scottish singer-songwriter Donovan in 1965.
Songs 28 February 2012 My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean" is a traditional Scottish folk song that remains popular in Western culture.
Songs 23 February 2012 Mairi’s Wedding Mairi's Wedding (also known as Marie's Wedding, the Lewis Bridal Song, or Mairi Bhan) is a Scottish folk song originally written in Gaelic by John Roderick Bannerman (1865–1938) for Mary C. MacNiven (1905–1997) on the occasion of her winning the gold medal at the National Mòd in 1934.
Songs 15 November 2011 Auld Lang Syne "Auld Lang Syne" is a Scots poem written by Robert Burns in 1788 and set to the tune of a traditional folk song (Roud # 6294).
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.
