Getting jiggy on the road in 2026! 

Hi friends! 👋🏻

I’m so soooo excited to be hitting the road again next spring! I'll be heading back to my pals in Port Townsend for Centrum Ukulele Week in May, and then making my way to the southwest for Las Cruces Uke Fest! There may be a few “mighty” stops in between, as well… hint hint… wink wink…

4/30 - 5/6: Centrum Ukulele Week 🏔️🎶 (WA)

Washington friends, I missed you so much that I had to come right back a second year in a row! Workshops will be announced soon, and I can’t wait to strum with you all again at the beautiful Fort Worden State Park. Have you seen the lineup for this year?! It’s gonna be a hoot! Click the pic for info, or check out the website here. Registration opens November 5th!

5/29 - 5/31: Las Cruces UkeFest! 🌵 (NM)

Beyond stoked to head to the southwest for the very first time! So excited to make new uke friends and strum together. Come join us!! Registration is already open, and you’ll get some free raffle tickets if you register before the new year! Click the pic above to get tix!

Uke Merch: USB Slap Bracelets!

When I’m on the road, I bring my special USB Stick Slap Bracelets loaded with ukulele tabs and workshops with me! They come in three different colors (and a secret fourth color, if you know the password…) and are all loaded with ukulele goodies:

Blue: Beatlemania! Five Beatles fingerstyle tabs + 1 60min Bluesy Beatles workshop video

Green: Festive Fingerstyle! Five holiday fingerstyle tabs + 1 60min Holiday Chord Melody workshop video

Purple: Viggy’s Favs! Five of my fav fingerstyle tabs + 1 60min Chord Melody 101 workshop video

Black: ????

Already bought a bracelet from me? If you’d like more goodies, I can load them onto your bracelet at a discounted price, so you can keep getting jiggy with every merch table encounter! Can’t make it to my live shows? That’s okay! You can get plenty of goodies as a Viggytopia member. Speaking of which…

🏝️ Viggytopia Round-Up!

With a new month comes all new things in Viggytopia on Patreon! Here’s what’s going down this month 👇🏻

👩🏻‍🦱 Skills Workshop: Strumming in Odd Times ~ Saturday, Oct 11th @ 1pm EST

How do you strum a waltz? How on Earth would you strum “Money” by Pink Floyd?? In this workshop, we’ll go over how to develop strum patterns for odd time signatures like 3/4, 5/4, 6/8, and 7/4. Join Viggytopia today to strum with us!

🪰 Songs on the Fly! ~ Saturday, Oct 18th @ 1pm EST

Our monthly chord melody arranging workshop for players of all levels! In September, our random song spinner wheel landed on The Joker by Steve Miller Band (requested by… me! Sometimes I throw songs on the wheel, too!) for us to transcribe and arrange in real time on Zoom together. What’ll it be this month? You’ll have to join and see!

📅 Monthly Recap: Tabs & Workshops for September

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

High G - Big Girls Don’t Cry by Fergie

High G - September by Earth, Wind & Fire

High G - The One I Love by R.E.M

Low G - Here I Am by Bryan Adams (from “Spirit: Stallion of the Cimmaron”)

New workshops!

Skills Workshop - September Stylez (September by Earth, Wind & Fire breakdown)

Songs on the Fly - The Joker by Steve Miller Band

Uketoberfest is THIS MONTH! 🎃🍻

I’m packing my bags and getting ready to strum! This is my last uke gig of 2025, and we’re going out with a BOO! 👻 Come join us for a day of ukulele fun beautiful Traverse City, MI. Click the pic for tix!

Some other stuff! 🍿

• I am making decent progress on Moby Dick! Some other books I’m reading in-between are Richard Matheson short story compilations (I Am Legend is one of my fav books) as well as Lizard Music by Daniel Pinkwater since a director I like is doing an adaptation of it as his next project.

• I’ve been making homemade bagels! I saw a tiktok video and was like “oh, I have all those ingredients…” and they came out ahmaaaazing! Sooo good. I also made homemade eggplant parm for the first time and that also rocked.

• Here are some movies I saw! This month I saw a lot of new releases, really putting my AMC A-List membership to work. Everyone liked this segment from last month’s newsletter so I will keep sharing my movie ratings:

  One Battle After Another (2025) - One of the best movies I’ve ever seen. I saw it twice this past weekend (once in VistaVision, once in IMAX) and I am dying to go again. Paul Thomas Anderson is my favorite director and this movie is generational. GO SEE IT. (5/5 stars)

  Dirty Work (1998) - We watched this just because Norm Macdonald was in it, and that alone was worth it. But it was also a ton of fun! (4/5 stars)

  Caught Stealing (2025) - Really fun action / crime / thriller starring Austin Butler and one of the best cat actors I’ve ever seen. Up there with the cat from Pet Sematary and Garfield. (4/5 stars)

  The Long Walk (2025) - Stephen King said “what if I wrote a story that was kind of like Speed but with walking instead? And then they made it a movie starring Philip Seymour Hoffman’s son and the guy from the new Alien movie?” I actually really liked it though I almost cried like three times (4/5 stars)

  The Wrong Paris (2025) - Fun silly Netflix movie that rips on The Bachelor franchise. Kind of so bad that it looped around into me thinking “nah this actually rocks” (3/5 stars)

  Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971) - My partner and I are watching all the Godzilla movies. I love when Godzilla is a guy in a suit (4/5 stars)

  Cats (2019) - bad (1/5 stars)

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!

xoxo Viggy