Featured BUG Jam 12/23 5 November 2023 BUG’s Yulekulele Jam! Live @ Red Bird! December 20, 2023 Don your gay apparel and festive hats and join us for an evening of seasonal songs and revelry! Yule enjoy yours-elves! It's FREE and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 01/24 5 November 2023 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! January 17, 2024 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and revelry! It's FREE and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured BUG Jam 02/24 5 November 2023 BUG Jam Live @ Red Bird! February 21, 2024 WHEN: Wednesday February 21, 2024 TIME: 7:30 to 9:45ish p.m. WHERE: Red Bird Live Music, 1165 Bank Street, one block south of
Featured bug jam 09/03/24 5 November 2023 BUG is back at "In From The Cold" - March 9, 2024! This has been a favourite BUG outing since 2011 and we’re so happy to be getting back there after the Covid hiatus!
Featured BUG Jams & Events 5 November 2023 BUG Kitchen Party Jam Live @ Red Bird! March 20, 2024 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 FREE and ye dunna need to be any good.
Songs 12 January 2021 Wellerman (Soon May The Wellerman Come) Traditional New Zealand folksong that dates back to the mid-19th century
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.
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 8 June 2014 Barrett’s Privateers "Barrett's Privateers" is a modern folk song in the style of a sea shanty, written and performed by Canadian musician Stan Rogers, having been inspired after a song session with the Friends of Fiddler's Green at the Northern Lights Festival Boréal in Sudbury, Ontario.
Songs 2 March 2014 Hanging Johnny "Hanging Johnny" was one of the best and most popular halyard shanties.
Songs 18 March 2013 Mermaid, The "The Mermaid" is a song about a whaler falling in love with a mermaid, but despairs because the mermaid has fish parts below her waist.
Songs 16 March 2013 Lukey's Boat "Lukey's Boat" is a comical song widely sung on the east coast of Newfoundland and collected by Elisabeth Greenleaf in 1929 in Twillingate, Nfld.
Songs 19 January 2013 Drunken Sailor "Drunken Sailor" is a sea shanty, also known as "What Shall We Do with a/the Drunken Sailor?"
Songs 23 February 2012 I'se the B'y "I'se The B'y" (also I's The Bye) is a traditional Newfoundland folk song/ballad.
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.
