Featured 2021-01 1 January 2021 BUG PyJAMa Jam January 20, 2021 Join Sue and Mark for an evening of ukulele revelry, songs, and laughter! It’s FREE and you don’t need to be any good. This is the kind of BUG you WANT to catch!
Featured 2021-02 1 January 2021 BUG "Love Me, Love Me Not" PyJAMa Jam February 17, 2021 Songs about falling in love, falling out of love, good times, bad times...country, blues, soul, pop - we'll sing it all!
Featured 2021-03 1 January 2021 BUG "Kitchen Party" PyJAMa Jam March 17, 2021 Enjoy some fine tunes, shenanigans, and a wee dram to ward off the last chill of winter! Sure we'll have a whale of a time!
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" (The Knights of the Round Table) constitute a legendary order in the service of King Arthur whom the latter commissioned to lead the quest for the Grail and to ensure the peace of the kingdom.
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 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.
Songs 18 February 2017 Connemara Cradle Song The "Connemara Cradle Song" is a beautiful old Irish folksong whose original writer is not clear. It is a song of the sea and is sung as a lullaby.
Songs 16 February 2017 Carrickfergus "Carrickfergus" is an Irish folk song, named after the town of Carrickfergus in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
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 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 5 July 2014 Fox, The The Fox is a traditional folk song (Roud 131). It is also the subject of at least two picture books, The Fox Went Out on a Chilly Night: an old song, illustrated by Peter Spier and Fox Went out on a Chilly Night, by Wendy Watson.
Songs 11 March 2014 Doon In The Wee Room There is in the Glasgow folk scene a reluctance to believe that the writer of the Wee Room song has been identified. People seem to prefer the idea of an unknown composer, so they can feel the song in some way belongs to them, to the streets of the city.
Songs 9 March 2014 Maid on the Shore, The Stan Rogers sang "Maid on the Shore" on his album "Fogarty's Cove", released 1977.
Songs 2 March 2014 Hanging Johnny "Hanging Johnny" was one of the best and most popular halyard shanties.
Songs 8 December 2013 Twelve Days of Christmas, The The best known English version was first printed in English in 1780 in a little book intended for children, Mirth without Mischief, as a Twelfth Night "memories-and-forfeits" game.
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 8 March 2012 Down By The Sally Gardens "Down by the Salley Gardens" is a poem by William Butler Yeats published in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems in 1889.
Songs 28 February 2012 Botany Bay "Botany Bay" is a song that can be traced back to the musical burlesque, Little Jack Sheppard, staged at The Gaiety Theatre, London, England, in 1885 and in Melbourne, Australia, in 1886.
Songs 28 February 2012 I’ll Tell Me Ma "I'll Tell Me Ma" (also called "The Wind") is a well-known children's song.
Songs 27 February 2012 Citadel Hill "Citadel Hill" is a love song about meeting on Citadel Hill in Halifax, NS.
Songs 23 February 2012 Beer, Beer, Beer "Beer, Beer, Beer", also titled "An Ode to Charlie Mopps - The Man Who Invented Beer" and "Charlie Mopps", is a folk song originating in the British Isles.
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 22 February 2012 Brennan On The Moor The most popular Irish highwayman since the second half of the 19th century was William Brennan who is immortalized in the ballad "Brennan On The Moor". Not much is known about him except a lot of legends, but this song has survived.
