Updates from Viggy HQ ~ December '25 ❄️

Hey friends! 👋🏻

December already!? Wow! What a year it has been for us here in Viggytopia: 53 new annotated tabs added to the Patreon archives, 23 new video workshops replays available on demand, 8 songs arranged together on the fly, 6 live ukulele events, 2 episodes of our new series "The Joy of Arranging", and 1 featured spot in Ukulele Magazine! 🎉 (oh and a partridge in a pear tree or whatever). 🕊️🍐

I have some awesome gigs and events planned for 2026 already, and it’s all thanks to you and your support from this year that’s allowed me to get jiggy all over the globe. I can’t thank you enough! 🤗

❄️ Getting jiggy for the holidays! Festive Songbooks and tabs on my website ☃️

Ready to play some holiday tunes? I have a handful of festive tabs plus two songbooks available on my website for purchase! Viggytopians on Patreon have these included in their membership (just sayyinnggg) or you can purchase them al a carte. Options for everyone!

👩🏻‍🦱 Viggytopia Happenings!

Here’s our December schedge for Patreon this month 🔽

🔨 Skills Workshop: Fingerstyle Fun Part 2! Sliding Hammer Combos ~ Monday, December 15th @ 6pm EST

We're ending the year strong with a fun new workshop that'll build on our skills from last month - Fingerstyle Fun part 2! We'll practice skill combos like sliding into chords, sliding into hammer ons and pull offs, and maybe even bending harmonics?! What!?! Some riffs will be holiday adjacent so we can get in the holiday spirit ho ho hoooo

📅 Monthly Recap: Tabs & Workshops for November

ICYMI - Here's all the goodies that were added to the drive last month.

New tabs! with annotations and audio files at 3 different speeds (50/75/100%)

High D - Here Comes the Sun by The Beatles

High G - The Final Countdown by Europe (funky version)

High G - Thank You for Being a Friend by Andrew Gold

High G - Cobra by Geese

Baritone - Baby's Request by Wings

New workshops!

Skills Workshop - Fingerstyle Fun Part 1!

The Joy of Arranging!

Episode #1 (Cobra by Geese)

Episode #2 (Baby's Request by Wings)

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Looking ahead - In January 2026, I’ll be teaching a three week course on Triplets, Rolls, and Flares… OH MY! This’ll be a special, more in-depth version of my one day class of the same name, and I’ll be workshopping it exclusively on Patreon to prepare for the Port Townsend Uke Fest.

🎶 Giggity Gig Gigs!

Here’s my gig line up (so far) for 2026… including 2 new events ‼️

2025

12/4 (This Thursday) - LIVE @ Aloha City Ukes! 

2026

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!)

🍿 Some other stuff!

• Another big month for concerts this month! I saw my favorite band Geese twice in Brooklyn this month. When you guys start hearing them all over Youtube and the radio and whatnot, don’t say I didn’t tell you they are the next big thing. They’re incredible!!

• We went rock climbing for Mr Jiggy’s birthday this month and it was a lot of fun. I’m pretty afraid of heights, but I conquered my fear and tried out the bouldering wall. For anyone not into rock climbing, bouldering is as “free solo” as it gets - you don’t do any harnesses or belaying or anything. Free willy! I did a good job considering I was nervous. 😄

• If you’re in NYC / Brooklyn and you want a cool place to hang, I highly recommend the Sunken Harbor Club in Brooklyn by Atlantic Terminal. It’s a nautical tiki bar and it absolutely rocks. It’s so hard to get into (they open at 5pm) so you better get there early to get a table. The food and drinks are so worth it!!!

• Vic’s movie corner: To quote the great movie expert Gregg Turkington, “hey guys, it’s move time!” Here’s a bunch of movies I saw this past month:

  Crumb Catcher (2023) - If you like the show I Think You Should Leave, then you’d absolutely dig this movie. Really weird freaky guy in it, just really awesome absurdist humor. One of those movies I’m so mad I watched by myself because I am dying to rewatch it with my friends in a group setting. SO GOOD (4.5/5 stars)

  The Chair Company (TV Series, 2025) - Speaking of I Think You Should Leave, I just finished season one of The Chair Company and I’m obsessed with it. No spoilers but honestly I could say anything that happens out of context and I don’t think it would spoil anything, but I thought it was so funny. So glad it’s coming back for a season two, I think we need it!

  Mulholland Drive (2001) - Even though I really like absurd comedy, I am surprisingly not that big of a David Lynch head yet (I started with Eraserhead which might not have been the right one to start with lol) but Mr Jiggy loooooves Lynch so for his birthday we watched this! I really liked it even if I needed him to explain the ending to me, teehee! 😝 (4.5/5 stars)

  Bugonia (2025) - I’m a very big fan of Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, especially after a back-to-back-to-back year of Poor Things into Kinds of Kindness into this new film. He’s on a roll! This movie was wild, about two crazy conspiracy guys who kidnap a CEO because they’re convinced she’s an alien. Is she? You’ll have to see! (4.5/5 stars)

  Predator: Badlands (2025) - OH YEAH THIS ROOOOCKKKED!!! Such a sick addition to the Predator franchise. So much fun. (4/5 stars)

  Sentimental Value (2025) - Really fantastic Norwegian film that came out this year starring Renate Reinsve (of The Worst Person in the World acclaim) and Stellan Skarsgard (of the guy that plays Pennywise’s Dad acclaim) (jk he’s also Baron Harkonnen from Dune) Kind of a sad one, but I really liked it. (4/5 stars)

  The Running Man (2025) - Readers will remember I rewatched the original not too long ago in preparation for this one. It was… just okay! My thing is, the director Edgar Wright has such a pronounced visual style (watch Baby Driver and then come back to this review) and you wouldn’t even know that Edgar directed this one. There was no sauce! So that’s why I didn’t like it. (2.5/5 stars)

  Who Invited Them (2022) - Fun lower budget horror movie about this couple that throws a party and there’s two people there that they have no idea who they are and they don’t leave!!! Literally my worst nightmare. Kind of predictable at times but I thought it was fun. (2.5/5 stars)

  The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (TV Series, 2020) - yeah I’m adding this to the very bottom here because I am actually so in love with the real housewives of SLC. It’s some of the best dramatic television I’ve ever watched and I’m NOT kidding. Have you ever seen someone get raided and arrested by Homeland Security and go to prison WHILE they were filming an episode? Insane. Everyone should watch it. If you pretend it’s scripted, it’s so funny. It’s winning Emmys in my head. My favorite housewife is Lisa Barlow she’s insane.

• Three Songs for You to Check Out: Man Made of Meat by Viagra Boys, Love Is by Dove Ellis, and Oh! Tengo Suerte by Masayoski Takanaka

👩🏻‍🦱 Where to get jiggy on the interwebs!

Here’s a quick lil dump of all the places you can find me on the internet:

Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok, and Youtube all as @jiggywithviggy

Jiggywithviggy.com for live events, lesson sign ups, booking info, merch, and more

Patreon.com/jiggywithviggy for Viggytopia membership (weekly annotated ukulele tabs and monthly workshops)

and of course, my newsletter, VIGGY NEWS! Thank you for subscribing and following along 😊

That’ll be all for this update! Thank you for your support and interest, it means the world to me. I hope you are well and have fun strumming wherever you are, and always stay jiggy! Happy holidays and happy new year from us (me) at Viggy HQ.

xoxo Viggy