submit artwork for live album special edition!
Calling all visual artists: if you’ve created artwork based on one of our live performances, we’d love to see it-and put it in the special edition of the live album!
We’ve gotten to see some beautiful pencil sketches, watercolors, pastel portraits after shows (and some pretty great pen-and-napkin cartoons too). We’d love to showcase your talents when we release the live recordings this spring!
Email us a preview JPG and we’ll arrange to get a high-resolution image from you. Please submit images by Tuesday, February 16.
Many thanks!
Visual Crunch segment on the making of “Gravity”
The first episode of a new TV show, Visual Crunch, will feature a segment on the making of the “Gravity” video. The show is scheduled to air on the MYX channel at the following times:
Thursday, January 21, 11:00 pm Eastern / 8:00 pm Pacific
Friday, January 22, 8:30 pm Eastern / 5:30 pm Pacific
Friday, January 22, 9:00 pm Pacific
Saturday, January 23, 12:00 am (midnight) Eastern [late Friday night]
Saturday, January 23, 11:00 pm Eastern / 8:00 pm Pacific
Sunday, January 24, 5:30 pm Eastern / 2:30 pm Pacific
Monday, January 25, 3:00 pm Eastern / 12:00 pm (noon) Pacific
MYX is available on:
DirecTV (in the United States) – Channel 2067
RCN (in New York City, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Chicago, and Boston) – Channel 474
Comcast (in the San Francisco Bay Area) – Channel 368
Cox (in Orange County, California) – Channel 479
Cox (in northern Virginia) – Channel 464
MCV (in Guam) – Channel 16
Here’s the preview of the episode, from Visual Crunch’s Facebook Fan Page:
Inland Territory nominated for 2009 Independent Music Award
Vienna’s latest album Inland Territory has been nominated in the Independent Music Awards for Best Folk/Singer-Songwriter Album!
Almost as exciting is the press release mention of Vienna among the “established talent” who “follow their own muse”:
December 3, 2009
Reflecting a broad spectrum of the global independent music scene, an eclectic mix of self-released and independent label talent culled from six continents were named by Music Resource Group (MRG) today as Nominees for The 9th annual Independent Music Awards (The IMAs), the influential awards program for independent bands and fans.
With over 250 Nominees in the running, the Winners in more than 50 Song, Album, Design & Music Video categories will be determined by a panel of 80 influential artist and industry judges including Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan, The Black Keys, Aimee Mann, Ricky Skaggs, Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy), Mark Hoppus (Blink-182), The Apples in Stereo, David Garrett, Suzanne Vega, Bettye LaVette, Judy Collins, Zooey Deschanel and M. Ward, and will be announced in January, 2010. Music fans have until June to cast their votes at The IMA Vox Pop Jukebox to determine the fan-selected IMA Winners.
Known for championing independent artists who follow their own muse, The 9th IMA Nominees range from established talent including Cursive (Concept Album), Holly Golightly and the Brokeoffs (Americana Album), …And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead (Pop/Rock Album), Lee “Scratch” Perry (World Beat Album), Spinnerette (Pop/Rock Album), Vienna Teng (Folk/Singer-Songwriter Album), All That Remains (Hard Rock/Metal Album), Cephas and Wiggins (Blues Album), State Radio (Social Action Song) and Old Crow Medicine Show (Music Video Long Form)…
Michael Zapruder, Brooke Waggoner and other excellent artists are also nominated in the folk/singer-songwriter category. Register to vote for the Vox Populi award and show your support for your favorite independent musicians!
Congratulations to producer Alex Wong and engineer-mixer Eddie Jackson for well-deserved recognition of their hard work!
live, on-air radio performance from Fort Collins
Vienna and Alex will perform and interview for an hour on 88.9 FM, KRFC in Fort Collins, Colorado. Listen live today at noon, Mountain Time zone.
UPDATE: Live @ Lunch host Cindy Schneider went above and beyond to share this session for everyone. See photos, listen to a podcast, and watch videos of this performance on YouTube. Many thanks to Cindy, and all who helped put this together!
American Songwriter session
Vienna stopped by American Songwriter back in August to record a session for them. The resulting interview and pictures, along with live audio and video of four songs, are now available on their site.
Lexington, KY show broadcast
Lexington, KY radio station WUKY will broadcast the August 29 solo show recorded at Natasha’s Bistro on Monday, October 5 at 8PM EDT. Tune in to 91.3 FM, or listen live online.
promote a show, collect a commission
We’ve just announced a partnership with Posse, a peer-to-peer ticketing service that rewards you for promoting your favorite live music. For every ticket you convince someone to buy, you get a commission ($1 – 5) that comes out of the venue’s marketing budget. Get your friends to join you at a show, and it could pay for your own seat!
This is a very new service—we’re one of the first U.S. acts on the site—so we’d love for you to try it out and give us your feedback and suggestions. And make a pretty penny for bringing people out to our shows, of course.
Currently we have two shows of the fall tour up on Posse:
12/4 BOSTON, MA – Berklee Performance Center
and we’re adding more every day. Sign up as a Posse agent and join the VT team!
Street Team resources page launched for fall tour
Want to help get the word out about Vienna and Alex’s shows this fall? We’ve created a street team resources page to provide you with a printable poster, bio and press clips, as well as ideas on how to promote your favorite music online:
http://viennateng.com/street-team/
Let us know about your efforts! Email michele@viennateng.com and include your full name so we can return the favor.
Vienna & Alex on tour in U.S., Oct-Dec
We’ll be playing all over the U.S. this fall (including Alaska last Saturday—thank you Anchorage!) and into December. Recently added stops in Kansas, Nebraska, Utah and elsewhere…check to see if we’re coming near you!
$1 per ticket at every show will be donated to a local food bank.
See the tour page for more details and tickets
all duo with Alex Wong
except * Vienna solo
o/ = opener; s/ = supporting; w/ = co-headlining
10/1 NORTHAMPTON, MA – Iron Horse Music Hall o/The Paper Raincoat
10/2 BATH, ME – Chocolate Church Arts Center o/The Paper Raincoat
10/3 LONDONDERRY, NH – Tupelo Music Hall o/The Paper Raincoat
10/7 EVANSTON, IL – Space * o/Ellery
10/8 MILWAUKEE, WI – Turner Ballroom * s/Over The Rhine
10/9 MADISON, WI – Majestic Theatre * s/Over The Rhine
10/10 MINNEAPOLIS, MN – Cedar Cultural Center * s/Over The Rhine
10/11 AMES, IA – The Maintenance Shop * o/Ellery
10/15 CHICO, CA – El Rey Theatre *
10/16 SACRAMENTO, CA – Marilyn’s On K o/The Paper Raincoat
10/17 SARATOGA, CA – Carriage House at Villa Montalvo (2 shows)
10/21 FT. COLLINS, CO – Everyday Joe’s o/Paul Freeman
10/22 DENVER, CO – Soiled Dove Underground o/Paul Freeman
10/23 BOULDER, CO – Boulder Theater s/The Subdudes
10/24 VAIL, CO – Vilar Performing Arts Center
10/28 PORTLAND, OR – Mississippi Studios o/Paul Freeman
10/29 EUGENE, OR – Shedd Institute for the Arts
10/30 EDMONDS, WA – Edmonds Center for the Arts
11/5 KAHULUI, HI – Maui Arts & Cultural Center *
11/6 HILO, HI – Black & White Night (Palace Theater) *
11/12 AUSTIN, TX – Stubb’s o/Sam and Ruby
11/13 HOUSTON, TX – Listening Room at NiaMoves
11/14 DALLAS, TX – Rock House Films
11/15 OKLAHOMA CITY, OK – The Blue Door o/Suzanna Choffel
11/17 OMAHA, NE – Waiting Room
11/18 ST. LOUIS, MO - Off Broadway
11/19 LAWRENCE, KS – The Bottleneck w/Ari Hest
11/21 HESSTON, KS – Prairie Window Concert Series
12/2 TARRYTOWN, NY – Tarrytown Music Hall w/Over The Rhine
~ LIVE ALBUM RECORDING ! ~
12/3 NEW YORK, NY – Joe’s Pub (2 shows)
12/4 BOSTON, MA – Berklee Performance Center w/Over The Rhine
12/5 OLD SAYBROOK, CT – Hepburn Cultural Center w/Over The Rhine
12/6 ALBANY, NY – The Egg w/Over The Rhine
12/8 WASHINGTON, DC – Sixth & I Synagogue w/Over The Rhine
12/9 SELLERSVILLE, PA – Sellersville Theater o/Gregory Douglass
12/12 PARK CITY, UT - Eccles Center
~ LIVE ALBUM RECORDING ! ~
12/20 SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The Independent (2 shows)
Twitter feed for real-time updates on tour listings and other events: @viennateng_news
Don’t forget to send your show pictures to us! fanpics@viennateng.com
See you out there. We can’t wait to play for you.
P.S. Fear not, the excellent Ward Williams will be rejoining us next year…on CAYAMO 2010!
P.P.S. A suggestion: join Twitter and follow @viennateng. We may have a surprise for you coming up.
we’re making a LIVE ALBUM in December!
Vienna and Alex here.
We like making music together. If you’ve seen us playing on tour, or listened to Inland Territory, you can probably tell.
Because you’ve been asking for a long time, because you’ve said such nice things about our duo shows, because for some wonderful reason you still want to BUY recordings of these performances even though you can probably find them for free on the Internet somewhere…
We’re making a live album. And we want you to be part of it.
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Vienna Teng & Alex Wong
recorded live in concert
Thursday 3 Dec 2009
NEW YORK, NY
Joe’s Pub
7:30pm & 9:30pm
Sunday 20 Dec 2009
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
The Independent
5:00pm & 8:00pm
$5 of each ticket will be donated to the following organizations:
Food Bank for New York City
San Francisco Bay Area Food Banks
Third Street Music School
Up On Top After-School Program
General-admission tickets go on sale Friday, September 25 for Joe’s Pub and Sunday, September 27 for The Independent.