Summer is upon us with an incredible lineup of events in the Vail - Beaver Creek region.
From the renowned TEVA Mountain Games in June, Bravo Vail Valley Music festival in July, Vail International Dance Festival and the summer long Bud Light Hot Summer Nights free concert series, through the the numerous festivals and family activities one finds in the region, the Vail/Beaver Creek experience offers something to create a special vacation for everyone.
ABOUT VIENNA TENG:
“I’m kind of a late bloomer,” says Vienna Teng.
Not that you’d guess from looking at the past few years. The songwriter, singer and pianist has released three critically acclaimed albums, landing her on three Billboard charts and in Amazon.com’s top ten. She regularly sells out theaters across the U.S. and Europe, fans travel hundreds of miles to catch a single show, and her opening sets for the likes of India.Arie, Joan Baez and Madeleine Peyroux end in standing ovations. Mere months after quitting her job as a software engineer in 2002, she was being interviewed on NPR and performing on The Late Show with David Letterman, who declared that he’d listened to her entire debut album and that there was “not a dud” on it.
Her fourth album, Inland Territory, is a tour de force musically and lyrically, a complex and deeply thoughtful work from an artist cut loose from limitations. Recorded over five months and in four cities, with instrumentation ranging from orchestral percussion to found-object loops to polyphonic choirs, it’s without question her most ambitious work yet. Teng has always been a songwriter of enormous potential, and this album is that promise come to full fruition. This is, as she sings in the final verse, “an old world made new.”
TICKETS:
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, AUGUST 14 at 11am.
Tickets are $25. Tickets are available online, by phone at 888.920.ARTS(2787) or in person at the VPAC Box Office in Beaver Creek and the Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater Box Office in Vail.
** FALL SINGER/SONGWRITER SERIES:
Tickets to Gandalf Murphy on September 26, Vienna Teng on October 24 and Ellis Paul on November 12 for $45! A 33% savings from buying individual tickets to each, and an opportunity to see some of the most accomplished rising stars on the scene in the intimate Vilar Performing Arts Center. Call 888.920.2787(ARTS) to buy your series pass today.
