Featured BUG Jam Videos 18 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 30 October 2024 North Country "North Country" is a Canadian song written by Jimmy Rankin, and recorded by The Rankin Family for their album, North Country, released in 1993.
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 1 March 2024 Bluenose Song, The "The Bluenose Song" also known as "Ballad of the Bluenose" is a maritime folk song written in 1966 by Michael Stanbury.
Songs 24 March 2023 Wasn't That A Party "Wasn't That A Party" was written and first released by American singer-songwriter Tom Paxton on April 10, 1973.
Songs 24 January 2022 Goin' Up The 1995 single "Goin' Up", from Great Big Sea's second studio album, peaked at #70 on the Canadian Singles Chart. The Up album is certified 4x platinum in Canada.
Songs 20 July 2021 Nowhere With You The single "Nowhere with You, written and recorded by Joel Plaskett in 2006, has received the most mainstream radio airplay of any Plaskett release to date, and was featured in a Zellers television commercial.
Songs 30 March 2021 Rambles Of Spring, The "The Rambles Of Spring" was an original composition by Tommy Makem which was introduced on The Makem & Clancy Concert album in 1977.
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 7 March 2020 Town Of Ballybay, The Ballybay (Irish: Béal Átha Beithe, meaning "mouth of the ford of the birch") is a town in County Monaghan, Ireland. It is centered on the crossroads of the R183 and R162 regional roads.
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 5 March 2020 Belfast Mill This song is a cover/adaptation of "Aragon Mill" a song written by American Si Kahn in 1970 and released on his 1974 album, New Wood, (see the separate listing on the SONGS page for the original "Aragon Hill").
Songs 13 March 2019 * Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Kitchen Party Songbook Here's the BUG Kitchen Party Songbook, Chord Chart, and the YouTube playlist with the songs for our annual BUG Kitchen Party Jam Hooley!
Songs 11 March 2019 When Will We Be Married Traditional as performed by The Waterboys on their album Fisherman's Blues.
Songs 1 March 2019 Grey Foggy Day Eddie Coffey is a legendary Newfoundland songwriter-entertainer who has penned some of the province's most well-loved songs including the anthemic, Grey Foggy Day.
Songs 6 May 2018 Toora Loora Lay Following the success of The Stable Session album in 2014, Na Fianna joined forces with producer Bill Shanley of Cauldron Studios to record their first studio album. This song, "Toora Loora Lay", is found on their album Unearthed.
Songs 8 March 2018 Ballad of Bowser MacRae From David Francey's album "Right of Passage" 2007, which won a 2008 Juno award for best Roots/Traditional album! David says: "One of the most interesting people I have met on my travels, Greg (Bowser) MacRae was the third mate on the MV Algoville" - a Lake Boat.
Songs 3 March 2018 Old Dun Cow Caught Fire, The The Old Dun Cow Caught Fire is a music hall song written by Harry Wincott in 1893 (oft described as the "King of Comic Song") who wrote many famous tunes but was paid so little for his work that he died a poor man in 1947 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Yeovil.
Songs 2 March 2018 Mull River Shuffle, The "Mull River Shuffle" is a Canadian song written by Donald Angus Beaton, J.S. Skinner, Jimmy Rankin, and Wilfred Gillis, and recorded by The Rankin Family for their album, North Country, released in 1993.
Songs 26 February 2018 Closing Time "Closing Time" is a song by American rock band Semisonic. It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song in 1999.
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 24 February 2018 When You and I Were Young, Maggie "When You and I Were Young, Maggie" is a famous folk song, popular song and standard. In 2005, the song was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame.
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.
