Featured BUG Jam Videos 11 February 2026 2026 - February BUG Jam VIDEO & SONGBOOK Here's our Bytown Ukulele Group (BUG) Jam recorded on February 11, 2026, with a full house of ukers to bring in the New Year! 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 January 2026 Save the Dates for Upcoming BUG Jams! Mark your calendars to remind you when the BUG Jams are and when you can purchase tickets - it's not ALWAYS the same! It will always be on a Wednesday, but not necessarily the 3rd Wednesday of the month!
Featured BUG Jam 07/03/26 1 January 2026 BUG is back at "In From The Cold" - March 7, 2026! This has been a favourite BUG outing since 2011!
Featured BUG Jam 03/26 1 January 2026 BUG Kitchen Party Jam Live! March 18, 2026 Join us for an evening of ukulele songs and shenanigans! It's FUN and you don’t need to be any good.
Featured Photos 10 December 2025 BUG Jam Live! Photos - December 2025 So much ukulele fun on a beautiful, snowy winter night! Fabulous festive outfits, a terrific dessert buffet, and outstanding, enthusiastic singing from all of you!
Songs 23 February 2012 Kelligrew’s Soiree The Kelligrews Soiree is a popular Newfoundland folk song first published in 1904. It was written by Johnny Burke (1851 – 1930), a popular St. John's balladeer.
Songs 23 February 2012 Mairi’s Wedding Mairi's Wedding (also known as Marie's Wedding, the Lewis Bridal Song, or Mairi Bhan) is a Scottish folk song originally written in Gaelic by John Roderick Bannerman (1865–1938) for Mary C. MacNiven (1905–1997) on the occasion of her winning the gold medal at the National Mòd in 1934.
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 9 February 2012 Bread and Butter "Bread and Butter" is a 1964 song by The Newbeats. Written by Larry Parks and Jay Turnbow, "Bread and Butter" was the group's first and most popular hit. (Wikipedia)
Songs 9 February 2012 Iko Iko “Iko! Iko! Jock-a-mo Fee No Nay” is a phrase that will, for many, instantly bring to mind the iconic 1965 number by The Dixie Cups.
Songs 5 February 2012 Log Driver's Waltz, The Canadian singer/songwriter Wade Hemsworth composed less than twenty songs over a fifty year period. But his works were carefully crafted, and sometimes so singable and eminently "Canadian" that they came to be regarded as folksongs.
Songs 25 January 2012 Side By Side "Side by Side" is a popular song with lyrics by Gus Kahn and music by Harry M. Woods written in 1927, now considered a standard. It has been recorded by many artists, but is probably best known in a 1953 recording by Kay Starr. (Wikipedia)
Songs 25 January 2012 Happy Together "Happy Together" is a 1967 song from The Turtles' album of the same name. Released in February 1967, the song knocked The Beatles' "Penny Lane" out of the number one slot for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the group's only chart-topper in the United States.
Songs 15 January 2012 BUG Medley This BUG Medley was created for and first performed at the Ottawa Folklore Centre's 35th Anniversary Event in 2011.
Songs 14 January 2012 Sway "Sway" is the English version of "Quién será", a 1953 Cumbia instrumental song by Mexican composers Luis Demetrio and Pablo Beltrán Ruiz.
Songs 14 January 2012 When I'm 64 "When I'm Sixty-Four" is a song by the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney) and released in 1967 on their album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Songs 14 November 2011 Sixteen Tons "Sixteen Tons" is a song about a coal miner, based on life in coal mines in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky. The song is usually attributed to Merle Travis, who is credited on his 1946 recording.
Songs 11 November 2011 I'll Be There For You "I'll Be There for You" is a song recorded by the American pop rock duo The Rembrandts. It is best known as the theme song to the American sitcom Friends, which premiered during 1994 and ended in 2004. The song was also released as the first single from the group's third studio album LP.
Songs 3 November 2011 When Irish Eyes Are Smiling "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling" is a lighthearted song in tribute to Ireland.
Songs 31 October 2011 Song For A Winter's Night "Song for a Winter's Night" is a song written by Gordon Lightfoot, and first recorded for his 1967 album, The Way I Feel. Lightfoot actually recorded two versions of the song; the second appears on the 1975 album Gord's Gold, a greatest hits compilation on which other re-recordings also appeared.
Songs 31 October 2011 Gypsy Rover, The The Gypsy Rover, also known under other names including The Whistling Gypsy Rover, is a well-known ballad composed and copyrighted by Dublin songwriter Leo Maguire in the 1950s.
Songs 16 October 2011 Those Were The Days "Those Were the Days" is a song credited to Gene Raskin, who put a new English lyric to the Russian romance song "Dorogoi dlinnoyu" ("Дорогой длинною", literally "By the long road"), composed by Boris Fomin (1900–1948) with words by the poet Konstantin Podrevsky.
Songs 23 September 2011 Try To Remember "Try to Remember" was originally sung by Jerry Orbach in the Original Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks. The song made the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart three times in 1965 in versions by Ed Ames, Roger Williams, Barry McGuire, The Kingston Trio, The Sandpipers, and The Brothers Four.
Songs 22 September 2011 Lion Sleeps Tonight, The "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", also known as "Wimoweh", "Wimba Way" or "Awimbawe", is a song written and recorded originally by Solomon Linda with the Evening Birds for the South African Gallo Record Company in 1939, under the title "Mbube".
Songs 5 September 2011 California Dreamin’ "California Dreamin'" is a song written by John and Michelle Phillips in 1963 and first recorded by Barry McGuire.
Songs 5 September 2011 Monster Mash "Monster Mash" is a 1962 novelty song and the best-known song by Bobby "Boris" Pickett. The song was released as a single in August 1962 along with a full-length album called The Original Monster Mash, which contained several other monster-themed tunes.
Songs 22 August 2011 Four Strong Winds "Four Strong Winds" is a song written by Canadian Ian Tyson in the early 1960s and recorded by Canadian folk duo Ian and Sylvia.
Songs 22 August 2011 Hey Good Lookin' "Hey, Good Lookin'" is a 1951 song written and recorded by Hank Williams, and his version was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.
Songs 22 August 2011 I'll Fly Away "I'll Fly Away", is a hymn written in 1929 by Albert E. Brumley and published in 1932 by the Hartford Music company in a collection titled Wonderful Message. Brumley's writing was influenced in part by an older secular ballad.
