WHAT: Ukulele Workshop + House Concert
WHEN: Saturday, November 21st. Workshop (4pm) / Concert (doors 7pm, music 7:30pm)
WHO: Viggy Kolasinski & Armand Aromin (see below for more info)
WHERE: Private residence in Providence, RSVP to receive address, limited space
HOW (MUCH): - Workshop: $25 or $20 if also attending concert - Concert: $10/15/20 (student/general/generous)
WHY: Because it's going to be quaint and lovely and intimate and un-amplified!
Viggy Kolasinski https://jiggywithviggy.com Hi! I'm Victoria but you can call me Viggy. 'Viggy' is "Vicky" with a heavy New York accent, think Viggyyyy... Born and raised on Long Island, I've been playing the 'ukulele for almost fifteen years now, and I started uke'n full time once the pandemic hit. To pass the time in lockdown I started recording myself playing and would post covers to Tiktok; before I knew it thousands of people followed along and were asking for tutorials and more uke videos... @jiggywithviggy was born! I fell into teaching through creating video tutorials and used my film school dropout video editing skills to my advantage when doing so. Teaching and making music with others is truly my calling, playing the ukulele brings me the most joy and makes me feel jiggy! Since getting jiggy, I've been featured on the cover of the Summer 2025 issue of Ukulele Magazine as one of the "Next Generation of Ukulele Players". I've built an audience of over 300,000 across my socials, working with brands like Positive Grid, Loog Guitars, Yousician, and Flight Music along the way. I spend my days arranging songs for fingerstyle ukulele (my specialty), teaching private lessons, traveling to festivals across the country, and making fun and kinetic 'ukulele videos on my social pages. Aside from 'ukulele, I love movies, bird-watching, a good cuppa cawfee, my boyfriend Jake, and my cat Morty. . : . Armand Aromin https://thevoxhunters.com/ukulele In chronological order, Armand Aromin is a queer Filipino American musician, percussive dancer, singer, and violin maker now enmortgaged in Riverside, RI with his partner, Benedict Gagliardi. More importantly, if you can say “Arm & Hammer” you’re pronouncing his name correctly. Like many who came before him, Armand’s ukulele journey, too, began with the Irish fiddle in high school. After a text-message-break-up his senior year (he’s doing fine) his heart told him, “The only way to heal is to stress-purchase a 5-string banjo.” And so he did. But while contentedly clawhammering his way through college, he beheld his first ukulele, and thus his eyes were truly opened. It was as if a banjo-shaped weight was lifted from his shoulders! Now, lo these many years, the clawhammer’s twang has graced and grazed many an ear with a growing repertoire of tunes and songs that continue to wonderfully confound the writer of this bio. Armand is one-third of The Vox Hunters, and at least a third of The Ivy Leaf. He proudly owns Aromin Violins, a tiny basement workshop in his first, and only, house. Armand loves, loves, loves teaching with a focus on musicality and giving students tools with which to find their own voice. He’s taught at the Ukulele Weekend at Ashokan, Nutmeg Ukulele Festival in Simsbury, Ct; and Ukuleles by the Sea in New London, CT. He regularly teaches private lessons at home as well as group classes at the Blackstone River Theatre in Cumberland, RI. In November 2023, The Ukulele Site hosted an Instagram contest where his submission, “Hunt the Hare”, made it to the Top 10!