On Canvas and All Things Considered feature Vienna
Local Philadelphia station WHYY TV will be airing an episode of On Canvas featuring Vienna on Wednesday, March 31 at 8 PM. The show will re-air on Sunday, April 4 at 2 PM. This episode will include footage from Vienna’s December 2009 show at the Sellersville Theater 1894.
An abbreviated radio segment of the show will be broadcast on All Things Considered on the affiliate NPR station. You can listen to it on Wednesday, March 3 at 5:44 PM EDT on 90.9 FM.
If you’re outside of the broadcast area, the episode will be streaming online beginning Thursday, April 1.
new videos: Cayamo ‘09, making of Inland Territory
Somehow in the midst of touring and producing records, Alex has also taken on documentarian duties. He’s been releasing videos from last year’s tour as well as the Inland Territory sessions–check ‘em out!
You can watch these videos on Alex’s new website, highceilingsmusic.com, or on YouTube:
The Making of “Antebellum”
The Making of “In Another Life”
The Making of “No Gringo”
The Making of “Stray Italian Greyhound”
The 11:11 Blog (Spring Tour 2009)
Episodes 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7
Cayamo 2009:
submit artwork for live album special edition!
artist unknown. we did meet her, but we've lost the autograph...
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!
New York Sings For Haiti
We played not one but two nights at City Winery in January, the second night as part of a marathon benefit concert for Haiti relief. It was an incredible lineup with a lot of collaborative spirit: imagine Ari Hest, The Paper Raincoat, The Spring Standards and dozens of other fabulous New York musicians playing and singing together…
Actually, you don’t have to imagine it. The concert streamed live and you can still watch it here:
http://www.livestream.com/nysingsforhaiti#
And if you feel so moved, please make a donation to Doctors Without Borders’ relief efforts in Haiti.
Many thanks to Alex Berger and photographer Ric Agudelo for organizing an amazing evening!
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!