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Lafayette Activities Forum will kick off its spring Gilbert’s concert series tonight with a 10 p.m. concert by pianist, songwriter, and vocalist Vienna Teng.
The San Francisco-based Teng’s music has been featured on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” National Public Radio’s “Weekend Edition Sunday” and the TV series “Ed.” CNN’s “NewsNight with Aaron Brown” aired a segment featuring Teng in March 2003 that was rebroadcast on Christmas and New Year’s Day.
By the time Teng, 25, quit her full-time software engineering job at Cisco Systems in 2002, she had signed with independent label Virt Records and was preparing for her full-length CD release, Waking Hour. A few months later, she was featured on NPR, made her network television debut on the Letterman show, and was followed around by a camera crew from CNN for a prime-time profile.
Teng’s sophomore release, Warm Strangers, which was produced by David Henry (REM, Cowboy Junkies, Josh Rouse) and mixed by Roger Moutenot (Roseanne Cash, Guster, Joseph Arthur), is scheduled for release later this month.