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 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 28 February 2012 Molly Malone (Cockles and Mussels) "Molly Malone" (also known as "Cockles and Mussels" or "In Dublin's Fair City") is a popular song set in Dublin, Ireland, which has become the unofficial anthem of Dublin City.
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 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 Whiskey In The Jar "Whiskey in the Jar" is a well-known Irish traditional song, set in the southern mountains of Ireland, often with specific mention of counties Cork and Kerry, as well as Fenit, a village in County Kerry.
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 23 February 2012 Welcome Poor Paddy Home "Welcome Poor Paddy Home" is an Irish folk song written by Charles J. Kickham.
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.
Songs 19 February 2012 Maids When You’re Young "Maids When You're Young" is a bawdy song which is full of innuendo and risqué allusions. It would have been shocking in its day. It's also known as The Old Man Came Courting Me.
Songs 5 February 2012 Worried Man Blues "Worried Man Blues" is a folk song in the roots music repertoire. It is catalogued as Roud Folk Song Index No. 4753.
Songs 19 January 2012 Sloop John B "Sloop John B" is a Bahamian folk song from Nassau. A transcription by Richard Le Gallienne, titled "The John B. Sails" was published in 1916, and a version was included in Carl Sandburg's folk song book, The American Songbag, in 1927.
Songs 27 November 2011 Chanukah, Oh Chanukah "Chanukah, Oh Chanukah" is an English version of the traditional Yiddish song Oy Chanukah (Yiddish: חנוכּה אױ חנוכּה Khanike Oy Khanike).
Songs 3 November 2011 Wild Rover, The "The Wild Rover" is the most widely performed Irish song, although its exact origins are unknown.
Songs 31 October 2011 Gypsy Rover, The The Whistling Gypsy, sometimes known simply as The Gypsy Rover, is a well-known ballad composed and copyrighted by Dublin songwriter Leo Maguire in the 1950s.
Songs 20 August 2011 She'll Be Coming Around The Mountain "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" (sometimes referred to as "Coming 'Round the Mountain") is a traditional folk song often categorized as children's music. The song is derived from the Christian spiritual known as "When the Chariot Comes".
Songs 20 August 2011 V'la l'bon vent "V'là l'bon vent" is a folksong on the theme of the 'trois canards' or three ducks, of which there are some 100 variants.
Songs 4 July 2011 Robin in the Rain Raffi Cavoukian, CM OBC (Armenian: Րաֆֆի, born July 8, 1948), known professionally by the mononym Raffi, is a Canadian singer-lyricist and author of Armenian descent born in Egypt, best known for his children's music.
Songs 4 June 2011 This Little Light "This Little Light of Mine" is a gospel song with lyrics by Avis Burgeson Christiansen and a tune written by composer and teacher Harry Dixon Loes (1895–1965) c. 1920. The song has since entered the folk tradition, first being collected by John Lomax in 1939.
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.
Songs 7 May 2011 Frog Went A-Courting We're doing the Pete Seeger-like version for BUG but there are lots of different versions you may wish to explore!
Songs 2 May 2011 English Sparrow (I Wish I Was A Little Bar Of Soap) A favourite song we always sang around our campfires!
Songs 2 May 2011 Vive la compagnie (Vive l’amour) "Vive La Compagnie" has many variations from around the world. Scouts adopted it as one of their tunes under "Vive l'Amour".
Songs 2 May 2011 Titanic, The "The Titanic" (also known as "It Was Sad When That Great Ship Went Down" and "Titanic (Husbands and Wives)") is a folk song and children's song most known for being sung at summer camp.
