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Join Ukuleles by the Sea for a special day of workshops and performances by rising stars Jiggy with Viggy and Armand Aromin. Registration is now closed.
Jiggy with Viggy
Victoria “Viggy” Kolasinski is a fingerstyle ukulele player and teacher born and raised on Long Island, New York. With over 300,000 followers across her social media channels, Viggy creates fun and easy-to-follow video tutorials, specializing in intermediate skills like fingerpicking and percussive strums.
Her kinetic editing style, wide-ranging song catalogue, and lighthearted “gen-z” approach to teaching and video creation has allowed her to connect with thousands of ukulele players online and beyond.
Viggy has been strumming for over 10 years and teaching the instrument for 5 years. She has taught workshops and performed at festivals all across the country, and she has been featured on the cover of the Summer 2025 issue of Ukulele Magazine as part of the next generation of ukulele players and educators.
Instagram: @jiggywithviggy
Armand Aromin
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!
Armand is one-third of The Vox Hunters, a quarter of Eight Feet Tall, 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 Nutmeg Ukulele Festival in Simsbury, Ct; and 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!
Instagram: @frailulele
Jiggy with Viggy
Victoria “Viggy” Kolasinski is a fingerstyle ukulele player and teacher born and raised on Long Island, New York. With over 300,000 followers across her social media channels, Viggy creates fun and easy-to-follow video tutorials, specializing in intermediate skills like fingerpicking and percussive strums.
Her kinetic editing style, wide-ranging song catalogue, and lighthearted “gen-z” approach to teaching and video creation has allowed her to connect with thousands of ukulele players online and beyond.
Viggy has been strumming for over 10 years and teaching the instrument for 5 years. She has taught workshops and performed at festivals all across the country, and she has been featured on the cover of the Summer 2025 issue of Ukulele Magazine as part of the next generation of ukulele players and educators.
Instagram: @jiggywithviggy
Armand Aromin
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!
Armand is one-third of The Vox Hunters, a quarter of Eight Feet Tall, 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 Nutmeg Ukulele Festival in Simsbury, Ct; and 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!
Instagram: @frailulele
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