Updates from Viggy HQ - June 2025 🌞

here's my June schedule and what I've been up to the past few weeks!

Victoria Kolasinski
May 31, 2025

welcome to VIGGY NEWS - a very jiggy newsletter 📩 June 2025 edition

I’m on the cover of UKULELE MAGAZINE! 🥳

Woohoo! I’m on the cover alongside other amazing young ukers Feng E, Tyler Donkoh-Halm, Sho Humphries, and Andrew Hoyt! Here’s me picking up a copy at my local Barnes & Noble.

Huuge bucket list moment achieved!! 🤩 Wowowow, I still can’t believe it. Thanks so much to Nick Grizzle for interviewing me for the mag, it was really fun sharing my story and ukulele journey with him and I hope you check it out. Subscribe to Ukulele or get it wherever you get your magazines!

Getting jiggy with the Salt Lake Strummers! 🕺🏻

I spent a weekend in Salt Lake City teaching Strum, Two, Three (beginner workshop), Fingerpickin’ Fun (intermediate) and Strum & Drum (advanced) with the Salt Lake Strummers!

The last of my back-to-back-to-back uke travels took me to Salt Lake City for a fun day with the Salt Lake Strummers! Thanks so much to Dick, Marci, Carla, and the entire Salt Lake Strummers group for welcoming me into your lovely community and getting jiggy with me, I had a great time!! Special thanks to Emily for recording the event, I always forget to take pics or videos because I am just always having too much fun (they can’t let me have this much fun!!!!) so I appreciate it. It was also great to see some of my Viggytopian Patreon members in person (shoutout Michael and John!!!!!!)

speaking of which…

New Uke Tabs on Patreon! 🏝️

Every month Viggytopians get one new fingerstyle tab a week, plus access to my entire fingerstyle tab library! Here are the new tabs that we added last month:

🎶Margaritaville - Jimmy Buffett (high G)

🎶Even Flow - Pearl Jam (high D)

🎶Gene Wilder - Pure Imagination (low G)

🎶Davey Jones Brubeck - Take 5 x He’s A Pirate mash-up (baritone)

PLUS+ two workshops per month:

🤓 Skills Workshop: Low G Lovin’ featuring Stairway to Heaven and Hotel California

🤓 Songs on the Fly (chord melody arranging workshop): Watching the River Run by Loggins and Messina

Next gig: Midwest Ukulele and Harmonica Camp! 🪕

let’s get jiggy in Toledo for the second year in a row! Happy to be back at Midwest Uke Camp :)

My last gig of the year is approaching! I’ll be heading back to Midwest Uke Camp for the second year in a row and I am very excited. I’m teaching Strum, Two, Three (beginner), Triplets, Rolls, and Flares OH MY! (intermediate) and a two-day Strum & Drum bootcamp (intermediate/advanced). I’ll also be performing in the Saturday night faculty concert. Join us!

That’s all for this update! Thank you so much for your support 😀

xoxo Viggy