FAWM: NewUkeNewYork (@newukenewyork)

NewUkeNewYork

@newukenewyork

Songs

Joined

2023

New York City
www.NewUkeNewYork.com

Hi, I'm Brooklyn-based ukulele player and teacher Jenny Selig (she/her) and I joined my first round of FAWM and then 50/90 in February 2023. 2025 marks my third year of FAWM.

With a background in poetry, theater, and performance, I have been playing uke since 2017 and sharing ukulele-based songwriting on social media and in-person since 2018. #fuc #ukulele

All my original songs end up here: http://tinyurl.com/seligsongs

I made up names for the genres I most often write in:
💀 #Americanasati - Americana infused with philosophical meditations on mortality and dread. (Americana + Maranasati)
🐿 #MidEmFoke - Midwestern Emotional Folk uke

I also want to write more FILK (I got an in-person FILK festival performance invite for this year!) and did someone say #horrorcountry?!

For FAWM 2025 my number one goal is to finish the handful of lyrical drafts I have left over from or since 50/90 2024.

Other than that, we'll see what happens!
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A note on collaborations: I am fairly new to collaborations but have had great experiences so far! If I write a lyrics-only draft and you offer to set it to music, please know I might also create my own solo, acoustic ukulele versions with any of my lyrics later, and the melody might be different, which doesn’t mean I don't like the music you or anyone else created around them.

I do also enjoy co-writing and setting other people's lyrics to music, as well as creating vocals/lyrics around someone else's instrumental piece. So if you want to collab, let's discuss!

Songs

The Mica in the Stone by @newukenewyork 4d #finished #ukulele #singersongwriter

On the River by @newukenewyork 5d #banjolele #ukulele #singersongwriter

You Can’t Miss Her by @newukenewyork 1w

Echidna in Her Cave by @newukenewyork 1w #mythology

What Will Stay by @newukenewyork 1w

Hi, I Hate It Here by @newukenewyork 1w #lyricsonly

The Soppiest Love Song by @newukenewyork 1w #lyricsonly

Ron de Jean, Private Investigator by @newukenewyork 2w #lyricsonly #noir #crime

Junk Start My Heart! (I Was Waiting For You) by @newukenewyork 2w #lyricsonly #lostmyvoice #silly

Dried-Out Specialty Bread (Hell Raisin) by @carleybaer +6 more 2w #fuc #acousticonetake #slackconversation

I Don't Wanna Ride This Truck by @newukenewyork 2w #lyricsonly #country #vehicular

Ask Me How I Know by @newukenewyork 2w #lyricsonly

The Moon Saw Everything by @newukenewyork 2w #ukulele #singersongwriter #personwithukulele

You and Me and Our Wicked Ways by @newukenewyork 2w #lyricsonly

Some Love by @newukenewyork 2w #finished #ukulele #singersongwriter

If Wishes Were Poolboys by @newukenewyork 2w #ukulele #singersongwriter #personwithukulele

Time To Go by @newukenewyork 2w #ukulele #singersongwriter #onetake

Come At Me Strange by @newukenewyork 3w #ukulele #singersongwriter #personwithukulele

Cold a Long Time by @newukenewyork 3w #ukulele #singersongwriter #personwithukulele

Why Else Would I Leave You? by @newukenewyork 3w #ukulele #singersongwriter #personwithukulele

Hey, It’s From Me (It’s Not About the Moon) by @newukenewyork 3w #ukulele #singersongwriter #personwithukulele

Soundboard

@squirrelhavenstudios 5d

Thanks for the nice comment about I Love You More Than My Guitar Pedals. Much appreciated!

@sdcpaman 6d

Thank you for the listen and nice words on Led You Here at Last. I appreciate the comment. We did a collab once a few years ago. If you have any lyrics that you think an acoustic treatment would be good. Let me know. Thanks again.

@riverman 6d

Thank you for commenting on the one song I needed feedback on the most (it was wallowing with one comment forever). It's funny, but throughout my focus on reaching 14 songs this year, GWB is the one song I keep going back to and making improvements to instead of waiting until FAWM is over.

BTW, your forum post "I want to see your songwriting notebooks" is one of the best this year; I have taken away so much from that forum.

@willlll 6d

You're very welcome. Thanks for busting my zong. I kinda just hit my guitar randomly in the solo, but I'm glad it worked.

@squirrelhavenstudios 1w

Thanks for the (now week old) comment about my songwriting books. I have a real problem. I can't stop buying them. I've probably got three or four now that I haven't even cracked the spine open on yet. I guess I had a minor success yesterday in that I managed to hold back from buying yet another one when I was at a bookstore, but I'll probably regret it.

@geercom 1w

Thank you for the nice comments on cry it out in tears song.

@rogerhammond 1w

Hi, thanks for your kind comment on 'philosopher's reflection'. Very glad you enjoyed listening.

@john_p 1w

Thank you for your kind comments on my ‘Cheese’ song. I’m looking forward to checking out your songs!

@gobbag 1w

Thanks for your comments on my song Quiet Apocalypse! Glad you liked it. I think I can probably make it better. Let's see...

@namey 1w

Thanks for listening. I have to confess, that is not really my lyric - this song is a take on/version of the English folk song/story Tam Lin. That line is in Anais Mitchell's version (or, in hers it's, 'I will be A gentleman'), as is 'hold me tight and fear me not'.

@willow1 1w

You are Very perceptive, it IS a true story! At least according to my memory last night, haha! It’s interesting how recounting a story years after it happened (and not really telling it since the incident) is an interesting practice. Like my most told stories (and more dramatic experiences) probably have more exaggeration and embellishments because of it being a yarn I have spun over and over, time distorting the remembered facts..(depending also on the audience) never thought of that!

@ohljazz 1w

Thanks for your kind comment on "Echoes" - there's definitely potential to flesh out that story more. I got as far as I could for a one-hour skirmish.

@greengrassgirl 1w

Hi, Jenny, Looking here at your page, I see I have some exploring to do. Even the titles are intriguing! I landed here because of your comment on A Man I Don't Know, my collab with @sheslin. I'm glad you could picture the scene we laid out, and flattered that it brought to mind "Killing Me Softly." I guess the two songs have the same underlying theme, and isn't it great that one emotion can be presented in so many different ways. Thanks for your comments.

@williamjames 1w

Here is hoping for more high notes! 💯

@erik_mono 1w

Thanks for the nice comment on my song! have a wonderful day:)

@alicelimoges 1w

My pleasure. The soppiest love song was SO cute!! Let me know if you add music, I'd love to hear it :)

@musicsongwriter 1w

You are very welcome. Thank you for your support. I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

@rustyp 1w

Hi!, I started listening to the Gospel of Lived Experience. Thanks for mentioning it! It's really thought provoking. :)

@nadine 2w

YES to unhappy uke songs!

@cts 2w

Wowsers! Crossed the finish line already! Congrats!

@chris_buono 2w

Here's to having ducks in a row, then, taming organeziezed. But daydream believer? Hey, wasn't that a song? Best w your dream away, such cool turning of phrase.

@frozenlonesome 2w

Thanks for listening to Beignet Tiki Shack. Glad you like my treatment of the morph before me. Looking forward to seeing how it is transformed by the end.

@dillonrichards 2w

i really appreciate your kind words! they mean a lot. excited to check out your songs. you're crushing it!

@timfatchenMod 2w

Thanks for the nonet comment, reminded me I hadn't looked in here!

@cathreu 2w

Thanks for the kind comment on Giants!

@sploiber 2w

Thanks much for the comment on Church Hill Road!

@chrisra 2w

thanks from the lake...you doin great, very inspiring..happy fawm

@benbarden 2w

Thank you for commenting on "Reel to Reel"! :)

@spinhead 2w

ah, glad I could suck you into 'navajo bridge'; thanks for the pleasant comment

@katestantonsings 2w

I'll add the #macaronic tag! Thank you for such an encouraging comment, Jenny!

@thwingbill 2w

Thanks for your generous comments on my "Thursday " song. I' just posted the demo of it

@jeremykazoo 2w

Thanks for your feedback on my songs and for taking my suggestion under consideration. It was meant in a spirit of generosity and collaboration. I'd never change an intentional decision. Something about that line....

Cheers!

@markfulwider 2w

Thanks so much for checking out “uke without a rhyme”! Made my day! Blessings!

@paul_pedersen 2w

Hi Jenny. Thanks for visiting "King of an Empty Castle". Celine Ellis gave me some interesting lyrics to work with, so it was a fun job for me.

@tonyr 2w

Thanks for the listen and kind words. Much appreciated.

@ally_nicole 2w

Hey, thanks for your comment on the Toilet skirmish lol! Much appreciated 🧡

@robinleaf 2w

Aw, thanks for your comments on my kitty song! "Smurgle" is a word Jackson Galaxy uses for the "making biscuits" kneading move they do (maybe he coined it, not sure). It sounds so funny, so I decided to put it in the song. 😹 Seriously, he never was so annoying before when I was playing! I love him though. Because I think cat lovers are a bit masochistic when it comes to pets. 😜

@stuarthu 2w

Thanks so much for listening to Come Undone, NUNY... looking forward to all that Feb creativity! ;)

@george 2w

Thanks for listening to "Where I Am." It's always nice to see you around FAWM!

@cluebird66 2w

Thanks for commenting on my song “This present”. Yes hungry hard cry is about having a baby. Love your work too!! Enjoy Fawm!

@dudachris 2w

When I realized the thing didn't upload right I figured you hadn't gotten the whole ZANY experience. I also thought it would make you smile so it was worth pointing out. That ate way more time then it was supposed to lol

@leslie333 2w

Thanks for you comments on my Risk song!

@lemonbrew 2w

Thank you for the comment on my song "Skirmish" ! :-)))

@itoarazi 2w

Thank you for your comments, which includes those on "Upstream". I do love me an odd time signature.

And I'm glad the community celebrates queerness, as everyone should!!

@val 2w

Thanks for the comment on "Don't Welcome Me Saint". The angel line is my favorite bit. Thank you for calling it out!

@frostbeat 2w

Hi Jenny! Nice to see you here :)

@excessivemachine 3w

Thanks for your kind comment on "God Saw I Was a Dog!" Glad to see you back here.

@jlampson 3w

GARAGE ROCK!!!!!! Oh, that made me laugh so hard! Thank you for that!

@chill4matt 3w

RE: Song feedback. Yes, when songs sound like "you", that is most awesome!!

@chill4matt 3w

That's one hell of a description of my latest song. Thank you for your thoughtfulness. :)

@ayais 3w

Thanks for comments on 'maitagarrien argiak'
Yes, an exploration ... a wander ... you're a very powerful influence!

@ayais 3w

Yep, happy FAWM.

@robinleaf 3w

Hey Jenny! 👋🏻 I've added you to my spreadsheet but I don't have your email address. If you get a chance at some point during the month, could you get me your email address somehow? It's great to see you back here again!