Featured BUG Jam Videos 20 December 2024 2024 - December BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on December 18, 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 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 10 March 2024 Riddle Song, The "The Riddle Song", also known as "I Gave My Love a Cherry", descends from a 15th century English folk song, Child Ballad no. 1 and no. 46.
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 6 March 2024 Night Pat Murphy Died, The "The Night Pat Murphy Died" is a popular Newfoundland folk song regarding the death of a man and the antics of his friends as they engage in a traditional Irish wake. It is often attributed to Johnny Burke (1851–1930), a popular St. John's balladeer.
Songs 3 March 2024 Muirsheen Durkin Johnny McEvoy’s recording of “Muirsheen Durkin” reached number 1 in Ireland in 1966.
Songs 7 November 2022 Quartermaster's Store, The "The Quartermaster's Store" is a traditional song from England. It is Roud Folk Song Index no. 10508. The origins of both tune and words are uncertain. It was sung by British and ANZAC soldiers during World War I.
Songs 5 November 2022 Pay Me My Money Down A work song, "Pay Me My Money Down" (Roud 21449) originated among the black stevedores working in the Georgia Sea Islands.
Songs 12 January 2021 Wellerman (Soon May The Wellerman Come) Traditional New Zealand folksong that dates back to the mid-19th century
Songs 7 March 2020 Chevaliers de la Table Ronde "Chevaliers de la table ronde" (also known as Goûtons voir si le vin est bon) is a traditional French song from the 18th century.
Songs 6 March 2020 Rosin The Bow (a.k.a “Ol’ Rosin the Beau”) The traditional, "Rosin the Bow" (not "Beau") refers to rosin with the bow of a violin, but both "Rosin the Bow" and "Rosin the Beau" cover the same general subject.
Songs 6 March 2020 I Know My Love "I Know My Love" is a traditional Irish folk song, which was first collected by Herbert Hughes and published by Boosey & Hawkes in 1909, in Volume 1 of "Irish Country Songs" - although the song is likely to be considerably older than that.
Songs 25 October 2019 Hush, Little Baby "Hush, Little Baby" is a traditional lullaby, thought to have been written in the Southern United States.
Songs 7 June 2019 Ah! Si Mon Moine Voulait Danser! DOWNLOAD THE SONGSHEETAh! Si Mon Moine Voulait Danser! (WORD) Ah! Si Mon Moine Voulait Danser! (PDF) YOU CAN PLAY IN THE SAME KEY AS THE
Songs 11 March 2019 When Will We Be Married Traditional as performed by The Waterboys on their album Fisherman's Blues.
Songs 1 August 2018 My Uncle A cute children's camp song, sung to the tune of "My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean".
Songs 5 April 2018 Wayfaring Stranger "The Wayfaring Stranger" (also known as "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" or "I Am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger"), is a well-known American folk and gospel song likely originating in the early 19th century about a plaintive soul on the journey through life.
Songs 26 February 2018 There Is A Tavern In The Town "There Is a Tavern in the Town" is a traditional folk song first appearing in the 1883 edition of William H. Hill's Student Songs. The song was the college anthem of Trinity University College.
Songs 23 August 2017 Row Bullies Row Traditional song, also called "Liverpool Judies". The song sheet is based on the Ewan McColl and A.L. Lloyd recording from 1957.
Songs 22 April 2017 Hang Me, Oh Hang Me Dave Van Ronk just missed the boat—check out the Cohen Brothers' Inside Llewyn Davis to get my meaning.
Songs 3 March 2017 Seven Drunken Nights "Seven Drunken Nights" is an Irish version of a humorous folk song most famously performed by The Dubliners.
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 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.
