{"id":221,"date":"2008-08-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-05T16:24:26","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:24:26","slug":"songs_and_stories_39_vienna_teng_or_when","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs_and_stories_39_vienna_teng_or_when\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #39: Songwriter Vienna Teng (or &#8220;When to Leave the Day Job&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1208\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-221-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories39.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories39.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories39.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories39.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=221-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories39.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories39.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories39.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #39<\/a> (time = 30:56, size = 35.4 mb)<\/p>\n<p>A question many artists often ask themselves is &#8220;When do I leave my day job?&#8221; (Not that I have *ever* thought that. No, never. Ever. Well&#8230;maybe that&#8217;s a topic for a future podcast.) Anyway, in Songs and Stories #39, I talk with songwriter Vienna Teng. She&#8217;s currently on tour &#8211; she&#8217;ll be at the <a href=\"http:\/\/sfoutsidelands.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Outside Lands Music and Art Festival<\/a> in San Francisco on 8\/24 &#8211; and she&#8217;s working on her fourth CD. Vienna and I worked at the same company several years ago, and I still remember the day she left, record deal in hand, to give up the corporate life and go after music full time. I caught up with Vienna earlier this year at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kuumbwajazz.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kummbwa Jazz Center<\/a> in Santa Cruz, CA. We reminisced &#8211; just a little &#8211; about &#8220;the day job&#8221; and discussed what she&#8217;s learned in her new life as a full-time musician.<\/p>\n<p>This episode also includes samples of &#8220;Whatever You Want&#8221; and &#8220;City Hall&#8221;, from Vienna&#8217;s third release, &#8220;Dreaming Through the Noise&#8221;.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/viennateng.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/media\/vienna2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here are a few links to go with this episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/viennateng.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vienna Teng&#8217;s official site<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/viennateng\" target=\"_blank\">her Myspace page<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/ilike\/artist\/Vienna+Teng\" target=\"_blank\">her Facebook page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/viennateng\" target=\"_blank\">Follow Vienna on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scarabcart.com\/cgi-bin\/viennateng\/index.cgi\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase her CDs and other merchandise<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/viennateng.com\/scrapbook\/\" target=\"_blank\">Notes from the the studio about her new record<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F%252Fax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewPodcast%253Fid%253D216646993\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/subscribe-with-itunes.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fsongs_and_stories_39_vienna_teng_or_when%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to hear &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #39 (time = 30:56, size = 35.4 mb) A question many artists often ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":913,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions\/913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}