Happy New Year from Viggy HQ 🥳 plus: UKEWEST FEST!

Hi friends! 👋🏻

I want to thank you so much for keeping in touch and staying jiggy with me this year. With your support I’ve traveled the country with my ukulele, teaching and performing in six different states! In Viggytopia on Patreon, I arranged 56 new fingerstyle tabs and provided Viggytopians with 168 practice audios to help learn each new song. We also had 12 live Zoom workshops together where we learned all kinds of uke skills, from strumming to picking and everything in between. AND, I was on the cover of Ukulele Magazine!!! Seriously, I can’t thank you enough for getting jiggy with me in some way, even just being on this newsletter! 🥹🧡

As we close out 2025, I’m already gearing up for some uke fun in 2026! Starting with this very weekend…

🎶 UKEWEST FESTIVAL THIS SATURDAY! 

I’m teaming up with my Reno Uke Fest pals Dani Joy and Perry Stauffer to be the first guest teacher for the 2026 UkeWest Fest! UkeWest is a continuous, online, virtual ukulele festival featuring guest instructors, jam sessions, and more! The best part? It’s all year round!

I’ll be participating in two sessions:

1/3: Workshop Session via Zoom

I’ll be teaching my workshop “Triplets, Rolls, and Flares… OH MY!” this Saturday!

1/17: Q&A and Concert via Zoom

Got a question about the workshop, or anything else? Wanna hear me play some tunes? Be sure to drop back in for the follow up session just to hang!

You can buy a year long ticket that gives you access to all workshops and sessions for all of 2026, or you can buy a drop-in seat to just my workshop sessions. Whichever you choose, be sure to [use this link to get $10 off your ticket!]

I highly recommend getting the year long ticket to get access to workshops taught by some absolutely amazing humans and teachers - Victoria Vox, Neal Chin, Avery Hill, Stu Fuchs, Aaron Keim, Tina Hebner, Dani & Perry, and more!

To learn more about UkeWest, check out the ‘about’ page here!

AND HERES THE TICKET LINK ONE MORE TIME NICE N BIG (WITH THE $10 COUPON!)

I hope to see you there! If you can’t make it, here’s where I’ll be so far in 2026…

2026 Gigs!

4/30 - 5/4: Port Townsend, WA - Centrum Ukulele Week (registration is open!)

5/5: Akron, OH - UkeHouse Workshop + Performance (save the date!)

5/8 - 5/10: Lansing, MI - Mighty Uke Day (MUD) (registration is open!)

5/29 - 5/31: Las Cruces, NM - Las Cruces Uke Fest (registration is open!)

7/11 - Bristol, UK - Bristol Ukulele Festival (save the date!)

7/24 - 7/25: Kure Beach, NC - First ever Ukecation! (save the date!)

See ya next year! 😋

xoxo Viggy