[OregonWomble]

Great call, Danny. I saw Vienna Teng last night at the Aladdin in Portland, and she really is good. I was expecting great song writing, singing and playing, but what I did not expect was the stage personality that she has. In between each song she talks to the audience and was really humorous and entertaining. She really is the complete package.

Hopefully later this year I will be investing in some OB speakers which will do more justice to her songs.

Dave.

[outlawrocketman]

Thanks for the heads-up. Had never heard of Vienna Tang until I saw this thread. Picked up an album via emusic. Great stuff. Now I need to buy the CD though so I can hear her in full rez.

[dvenardos]

Hugh and I went to the concert at the Roxy. It was an enjoyable time, and the warm up bands were also very talented. She is talented, beautiful, and intelligent. Nice combination.

[Danny Richie]

Where did you guys see her?

[Hugh]

You don't know where the Roxy Theater is?

It's an old club in Hollywood, CA, where most of the up and coming or just started out talents honed their horns at.

Too bad, they didn't serve coffee.
I wish she played at Art's brother's place.

Where did you guys see her?

[Danny Richie]

Oklahoma City tonight.    I'm there!

[jimdgoulding]

Wow!  What a talent.  And that's the way I'd like to see her. 

[Carl V]

Oklahoma City tonight.    I'm there!

Sorry I didn't see this thread earlier ....it was a fun show
& a pleasant surprise to run into Danny & his wife at the show.

So Danny did you guys drive home last nite?

Fun Show....so-so venue....lotsa character

[Danny Richie]

Hey Carl,

We came prepared to spend the night in OKC, but I was wide awake and decided to drive on in.

The Blue Door was a dive. I can't believe so many people have been there to perform. I can't believe that Vienna and Alex would be willing to play there either. I am guessing that there were about 70 people there.

The show was great. You can really tell that they have been on the road a lot. The songs were well practiced. Vienna nails the vocals at each show just like on the CD. She belts it out without missing a note and with just as much feeling and emotion each and every time.

At the end of the show I was visiting with Alex about how they needed to come to the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest in October when my wife got our attention and snapped this shot.



I figured, hey, if they are willing to do small venues for 70 to 100 people why not do a show that draws 2,500? I could easily see her doing two songs sets, selling CD's, and meeting fans in the lobby on that grand piano. Plus an evening show for paying customers over in one of the ball rooms...

Hey Marjorie?

I also have to mention just how good Alex was as well. In the Harbor song he was catching the low notes with his heal against the box, playing the drums, cymbal, and at the same time covering the led on the bells without missing a beat.

They brought in another guy (Ward) that played a Cello, electric guitar and stuff. He was also really good.

Alex also told me that in the new album Vienna was indeed playing a grand piano. I would have swore it was a keyboard. It certainly sounds fairly well compressed or something. It just doesn't have the same realism as the piano played in the first album Waking Hour. Is anyone else bugged with the sound of that piano on the new album.

Oh yea, and the first cut of the new album, The Last Snowfall, sounded great live. I didn't miss the cracks and pops that they added on the CD to give it that vintage vinyl sound at all.

Again a great show. If any of you guys reading this are in the area's of the up and coming shows then don't miss it. name this morning.

[Danny Richie]

I just received a new e-mail from Vienna with some new updates. See below:


Summer greetings!

I write to you from a tiny apartment in East Village. The bathroom is in the kitchen; a clothesline hung on the bedroom wall is the closet. Manhattanites clearly use the city itself for most of their living space.

This isn't my new home, merely home of the week, as I've become a genuine nomad this year. Read on to find out why...

IN THIS EMAIL
+ CD Release Tour - Thank You
+ Upcoming Shows
+ Reviews of Inland Territory
+ Media Appearances

***
CD RELEASE TOUR - THANK YOU

A huge THANK YOU for making these past few months a tremendously successful CD release tour! All throughout Europe and the U.S. we were amazed by the turnout at the shows--given the global recession and the fact that we'd taken a chance on playing larger venues, we weren't expecting the sold-out dates and packed houses that we played to night after night.

Not only did we get to see you, you brought your roommates, old friends visiting from halfway across the world, your metalhead boyfriends and punk-rock girlfriends, business partners, life partners, your parents with Joni Mitchell records and your kids just starting piano lessons. You filled up beautiful old theaters, legendary jazz clubs and the occasional converted barn (here's looking at you, northern Virginia and Oklahoma City). We don't take your support lightly. It means the world to us. Thank you.

Much gratitude to Alex Wong and Ward Williams, Ben Sollee, Amber Rubarth and Adam Christgau of The Paper Raincoat, Katie Herzig and Jordan Hamlin and Claire Indie, and tour manager/sound engineers Gert Rickmann-Wunderlich and Tom Dube, for being fantastic musicians and even better travel companions. They are rare creatures. I'm glad to know them.

***
UPCOMING SHOWS

I'll be playing solo throughout the summer, beginning in New York this Friday, June 19 at Housing Works. This great organization runs thrift stores and a bookstore-cafe to fund its HIV/AIDS support and housing programs, and all proceeds from the evening will benefit Housing Works.

http://www.housingworks.org/events/detail/live-from-home-with-vienna-teng1/

Then it's off to Largo on June 22, the renowned listening room in L.A. To be honest, I'm a bit intimidated to be playing a venue where people like Aimee Mann, Gillian Welch and Fiona Apple like to hang out. Come out, Angelenos, and tell me it's gonna be OK...

http://www.largo-la.com/largohome.html

I'll probably be more relaxed by June 29 at Hotel Cafe. I'll probably have recruited some guest appearances from various talented L.A. friends as well.

http://www.hotelcafe.com/calendar.html

July and August bring dates with excellent songwriter friends like Katie Herzig and Ari Hest, plus a special concert August 14 at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, featuring songs from musical-in-progress Sid Arthur.

http://www.theatreworks.org/about/newworks/festivalevents.aspx

And when does the trio play again, you ask? I reunite with the fabulous Alex Wong and Ward Williams in Westhampton Beach on July 17, and at New York's Highline Ballroom on August 20!

http://www.whbpac.org/pages/events_detail.php?event_id=176
http://www.highlineballroom.com/bio.php?id=975

Full details at http://www.viennateng.com/tour

- SOLO -
6/19 NEW YORK, NY - Housing Works Bookstore Cafe (with Diane Birch and Coralie Clement)
6/22 LOS ANGELES, CA - Largo at the Coronet
6/29 LOS ANGELES, CA - Hotel Cafe
7/08 FALL RIVER, MA - Narrows Center for the Arts (with Katie Herzig)
7/09 NORFOLK, CT - Infinity Hall (with Seth Adam)
7/10 NEWBURYPORT, MA - Historic Firehouse (WXRV Riverfront Festival)
7/11 OGUNQUIT, ME - Jonathan's Restaurant (with Katie Herzig)
7/14 HURFFVILLE, NJ - Gloucester County Summer Concerts (with Marc Silver)
7/15 LARCHMONT, NY - Watercolor Cafe (with Katie Herzig)
7/17 * trio show - see below
7/19 PAWLING, NY - Towne Crier Cafe (with Ari Hest)
8/09 LAKE OSWEGO, OR - Moonlight and Music Concert Series
8/14 PALO ALTO, CA - TheatreWorks New Works Festival
featuring in-progress works from "Sid Arthur" (with vocal ensemble)

- TRIO feat. Alex Wong and Ward Williams -
7/17 WESTHAMPTON BEACH, NY - Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center (with Ari Hest)
8/20 NEW YORK, NY - Highline Ballroom

***
REVIEWS OF INLAND TERRITORY

It may be "like dancing about architecture," as the saying goes, but we're happy to see music writers getting excited (and eloquent) about the album we worked so hard to create. Here are a few if you're interested:

Blurt Online (formerly Harp Magazine)
"there's no denying the sheer effervescent beauty she's capable of welding so flawlessly, an ability that allows Inland Territory to demand repeated exploration"
http://www.blurt-online.com/reviews/view/996/

American Songwriter
"lush strings, doleful horns, plaintive woodwinds and sweeping choral arrangements pad the brilliant, introspective diary of an album"
http://www.americansongwriter.com/2009/05/vienna-teng-inland-territory/

Slant Magazine
"an adventurous sonic palette and songs that draw inspiration from both personal and topical sources...stands as her most satisfying and mature album to date"
http://www.slantmagazine.com/music/music_review.asp?ID=1707

Performing Songwriter
"flush with songs too clever for radio--four-minute tales of love, war, reincarnation and the plight of illegal immigrants. 'Antebellum'...is a genuine Broadway-worthy showstopper"
http://viennateng.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=20414&highlight=#20414

Stereo Subversion
"This isn't music for passive listening...For those seeking meaning in music, [Inland Territory] should not be missed by any means"
http://www.stereosubversion.com/reviews/album-reviews/vienna-teng-inland-territory-05-27-2009/

***
MEDIA APPEARANCES

Back in December a nice camera crew from KQED's Spark followed me around for two days. If you ever wanted to see me hang out with my brother, rehearse with the quartet or talk about my (lack of) fashion sense, now's your chance.
http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=24226

NPR's All Songs Considered featured "The Last Snowfall" back in April. Along with Jack White and Radiohead, at that. Wow.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103284643

On the live-for-broadcast side of things, Alex and I recently got to perform on these great radio shows:

WNYC Soundcheck
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/soundcheck/episodes/2009/05/20/segments/132198

E-Town (airs June 24-30)
http://www.etown.org/listen.archive.summary.php?id=282&air_date=2009-06-24

You can still check out our Mountain Stage appearance from last year too:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95567842

***
It's been an amazing year, and it's only half over! We look forward to sharing Inland Territory with ever-wider audiences in the coming months.

Thanks for reading, for listening, and for being here.

Much love,
VT

[Danny Richie]

New e-mail update from Vienna:

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.

***
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 http://www.foodbanknyc.org/
San Francisco Bay Area Food Banks http://www.bayareahunger.org/
Third Street Music School http://www.thirdstreetmusicschool.org/
Up On Top After-School Program http://www.upontop.org/

SPECIAL CONCERT PACKAGES!

We've got a limited number of special packages for the LATE NY SHOW and EARLY SF SHOW only. They include:

* preferred seating at the concert
* limited-edition autographed poster
* souvenir laminated pass - your ticket
* soundcheck party & lunch (SF) / dessert & afterparty (NY)

Purchase a concert package now!
http://www.scarabcart.com/cgi-bin/viennateng/store.cgi?csid=&category=Exclusive+Concert+Packages

General-admission tickets go on sale Friday, September 25 for Joe's Pub and Monday, September 28 for The Independent.

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FALL TOUR DATES

We know you can't all hop on a plane and cram into these two intimate venues, so 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.

http://viennateng.com/tour/

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 *
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 Historic 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:
http://twitter.com/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.

Much love,
VT & AW

P.S. Fear not, the excellent Ward Williams will be rejoining us next year...on CAYAMO 2010!

P.P.S. Yes, the live album shows are in 21+ venues. If you were hoping for an all-ages thing, a suggestion: join Twitter and follow http://twitter.com/viennateng. We may have a surprise for you coming up.
Purchase securely here:
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Questions? Contact vienna@viennateng.com or Vienna Teng, c/o Deep South Entertainment, PO Box 17737, Raleigh, North Carolina 27619, United States

[Hank]

Danny, you've recommended her so much, I'll have to try to attend her performance here in Austin at Stubb's on November 11.

[Danny Richie]

Yes, she puts on a great show. If she is in your area then don't miss it. They are small venue shows and ticket prices are usually pretty low too so no reason not to go.

[Danny Richie]

Just a reminder to you guys in my area. Vienna will be in Dallas on the 14th of this month.

[jimdgoulding]

She's in Houston on the 13th at a spa or something . . NiaMoves?  I'm calling them to get the skinny.   

[mojave]

I plan to hear her on November 17 in Omaha. Thanks for recommending this performance.

[srclose]

Heading to Hesston, KS on the 21st.

[jimdgoulding]

Buyin tickets today.  NiaMoves (Houston in the Heights) hosted James McMurtry awhile back.  It's an uptown yoga center with a listening room.  Dang . . I didn't even know about the place!  Also, we gotta club of folkies down here called the Songbird Sanctuary that meets in the organizer's registered home in the Montrose section of town.  Saw Ruthie Foster there with my daughter.  Members bring food and wine.  Seats around 70.  Looking forward to Vienna Teng.  Thanks, D.     

[Carl V]

After RMAF  I saw here in Saratoga Calif....where she graduated from H.S. 
I graduated from there many, many, many years earlier. 
She played at the Carriage house ...nice venue. 
I will try & see here again in OKC at our "dump' of a venue The Blue Door. 
I wish she would try to get into a different venue. 
Danny can elaborate on this 'quality' venue....he & I both attended her concert there.

[Danny Richie]

Yeah, the Blue Door leaves a lot to be desired. Sure was a good show though.