Bay Area fans of Vienna Teng who’ve watched the singer/songwriter’s career ever since she recorded her first album as an undergrad at Stanford University might be surprised to discover that she recently returned to music after a decade away.

From about 2012 to 2022, the Saratoga-raised Teng pursued a series of consulting gigs focusing on clean energy, eventually taking a job “working more than full time” with a nonprofit focusing on waste issues in the global South.

“It was basically my dream job, except for the part about not getting to do music,” she said in a recent phone conversation from her home in Washington, D.C. In the Bay Area, however, her hiatus wasn’t particularly evident, as she took advantage of her holiday visits back home to continue her annual December residency at the

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