FAWM: @newukenewyork / NewUkeNewYork

NewUkeNewYork

@newukenewyork

Songs

Joined

2023

New York City
www.NewUkeNewYork.com

2026 Completed Song Count: 19 + 2 collabs + 2 lyrics-only needing music

Hi, I'm Brooklyn-based ukulele player and teacher Jenny Selig (she/her) and I joined my first rounds of FAWM and 50/90 in February 2023, so 2026 marks my 4th year of FAWM. I’ve performed at several #filk festivals and was New Voices songwriting guest at OVFF 2025.

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

—- A note on collaborations: 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 Smallest Sort of "Stay" (no nouns/pronouns) by @newukenewyork 2d #lyricsonly

I’ve Been Waiting by @newukenewyork 2d #ukulele #singersongwriter #personwithukulele

Don’t! Rhyme! At! Me! by @newukenewyork 4d #ukulele #uke #girlwithukulele

Tiffany, Witch of the Chalk by @newukenewyork 4d #sawtooth #filk #books

Hey ChatGPT I Don’t Think That You Love Me by @newukenewyork 4d #lyricsonly #needscollab

Friday the Thirteenth Before Valentine's Day by @newukenewyork 5d #omens #badluck #valentine

Softly (A City Lullaby) by @newukenewyork 6d

Sometimes You Swerve by @newukenewyork 1w #chocolate #ukulele #singersongwriter

Let Me Spill by @newukenewyork 1w #ukulele #uke #fuc

Nothing Is On Fire by @metalfoot +11 more 1w #slackchat #whistling #acousticonetake

Touch Me Not (Melianthus major) by @newukenewyork 1w #poisonerchallenge #ukulele #singersongwriter

"Spring is Always New (A Ghost Story)" by @newukenewyork 1w #ukulele #singersongwriter #personwithukulele

An Unfortunate Occurrence at the Home Depot by @newukenewyork 1w #ukulele #singersongwriter #personwithukulele

Birds That Stay by @newukenewyork 1w #ukulele #singersongwriter #personwithukulele

(I Don't Want Your) Salvation by @newukenewyork 1w #singersongwriter #personwithukulele #girlwithukulele

Should've Been by @newukenewyork 1w #midemfoke #ukulele #singersongwriter

I Haven't Yet by @jeff9 + @newukenewyork 2w #acousticonetake #singersongwriter

Hard Up For Happy by @newukenewyork 2w #ukulele #singersongwriter #personwithukulele

Just Enough by @newukenewyork 2w #ukulele #singersongwriter #personwithukulele

I Haven't Yet by @newukenewyork 2w #lyricsonly #ukulele #singersongwriter

The Mountain, Me, and You by @newukenewyork 2w #ukulele #singersongwriter #personwithukulele

Graph Paper by @newukenewyork 2w #silly #ukulele #singersongwriter

Barefoot in the Wash by @newukenewyork 2w #ukulele #singersongwriter #personwithukulele

Soundboard

Messages left for you by other fawmers.

@alphagal 3h

I did a deep dive here and wow you have so much talent and are so prolific! I really appreciate the thoughtfulness of your lyrics. I especially liked Barefoot and Just Enough. It must've been amazing to have a choir perform your song. I think I would cry. Oh, and Friday the 13th was fun too!

@andygetch 5d

Congratulations on the 14+ win!

@newukenewyork 3d

Thank youuuuuuu

@nfshakespeare 6d

Would you consider recording a Uke track for my song Second Hand? I think it's desperately crying out for one.

https://fawm.org/songs/322518

@newukenewyork 6d

I'd be honored to try one and see if it fits! I am listening now and I agree that ukulele feels like it would work nicely in that song. I'm hearing C#? want to send me the chords and let me know how I can best get a file to you? Just as a warning, I don't have a nice studio sound -- it's just me in my bedroom with an okay mic. jennyjennette@gmail

@quadrivium 1w

Wow! Congrats on creating 16 songs, Jenny!

@newukenewyork 1w

Thank you! I think I’m subconsciously trying to make up for last year, when I lost my voice. 😜

@musicsongwriter 1w

Thank you Jenny 🎶

@salvatorefrances 1w

congrats on reaching 14! 🌷

@newukenewyork 1w

Thank you! In my mind I'm not at 14 until I have 14 full solo demos, lyrics and music, but it's still a good place to be -- I'm getting there! :)

@musicsongwriter 1w

Likewise

@oswlek 1w

Thank you, Jenny, for your kind words and title suggestion. "Let It" is the ticket! Amazingly, that never even crossed my mind. 🤪

@zinnithequeen 2w

I love your username! Just read it out loud, hehe: New Uke New York.

@newukenewyork 1w

:) ukulele culture loves a pun even more than I personally do, but I am glad I thought of newukenewyork in my early days of IG and YT.

@nancycunning 2w

Maybe we can even manage a New York after FAWM party this year. February’s probably out for breakfast while we deal with flooding’s aftermath. Last week of March or first week of April could work.

@margotmae 2w

off we go!!!

@chill4matt 2w

Happy FAWMing, Jenny!!

@newukenewyork 2w

Thanks, you toooooo!

@rrobinso84 2w

Hi, Jenny! I "accidentally" extended the lyrics to a popular kid's song last month and it reminded me of your PuffTMG work last year. Then, your invite to join FAWM was the kicker!

I expect to be mostly lurking this first season, but I will use the inspiration to post my Itsy-Bitsy contribution soon!

Bob R

@kc_ 2w

Jenny, Thanks for stopping by to comment on The Only New I Need. Always appreciate your input! Let me know if you have any interest in setting it to music! I know that these 28 day are going to fly by!

@csecooney 2w

Hi, Jenny! I found you on FAWM! I am so looking forward to the music you make this month! And always! - Claire

@newukenewyork 2w

yay!

@sdcpaman 2w

Hello Jenny. Welcome to FAWM 2026. Looking forward to hearing your music this year

@newukenewyork 2w

Hi, same to you! Welcome back!

@jlampson 2w

Hello my friend, so happy to see you back this year. With any luck, our paths cross, and I'll definitely be checking out your stuff. Uke on!

@newukenewyork 2w

Hello, hello and welcome back to FAWMland! Great to see you!

@johnstaples 2w

Hey New York, happy FAWMing!

@newukenewyork 2w

Oh, hey, hi! Nice to see you back! :)

@gardeningangel 2w

Love the term "binary-wary" 😂 Happy FAWM No. 4, have a great one!!!

@newukenewyork 2w

Yay! Happy FAWM right back at you! :)

@paul_pedersen 2w

Looking forward to hearing your February creations, Jenny.

@newukenewyork 2w

Thank you! Welcome back to FAWM!

@andygetch 2w

Hey Jenny!

@newukenewyork 2w

Hiya! Glad to be back!

@tawny249 2w

Hey! Great to meet you in person, however briefly. It's always a madhouse weekend at OVFF. 😉 Looking forward to more of your FAWM songs!

@newukenewyork 2w

Hiya! Nice to see you online now -- it was fun to put some faces to names!!

@bobjestes 2w

Have a great FAWM! Looking forward to hearing your new stuff

@newukenewyork 2w

Thanks -- and welcome back to you, too!

@mxqidlove 2w

Happy FAWMing!

Saw your post on the queer thread and I also consider my queerness to be entangled with my spirituality, and my art for that matter. Queering-as-a-verb (and neuroqueering) are also concepts I'm very interested in! Yay!

@newukenewyork 2w

Oh, thanks for sharing that with me. It's such a rich word/concept. Yay!

@quadrivium 2w

Jenny! I am really looking forward to hearing you. <3

@newukenewyork 2w

Thanks! Can't wait until we're all sharing!

@tamsnumber4 2w

Have a Great FAWM!

@newukenewyork 2w

You toooooo!

@cathreu 2w

Hope you have a wonderful FAWM! I'm looking forward to your music!

@newukenewyork 2w

And same to you! Yay, FAWM!

@charlie_leemburg 2w

Have yourself a nice FAWM!

@newukenewyork 2w

Thanks! I hope yours is great, too!

@kc_ 2w

NUNY! Hope you have a great month! Always love what you post! Still taken away by your dreamy rendition of lights alive - a song of mine you had put to music. Too Good!!

@newukenewyork 2w

That was so nice to do -- Thanks for collabing with me!! Happy FAWM 2026!