AVEC returns to Linz with intimate theatre tour

Ober Upper Austrian singer-songwriter AVEC returned to Linz for a concert at the Schauspielhaus, a theatre within the Landestheater Linz, ORF reported. The show was part of her Theatre Tour, which puts the audience close to the music and its stories.

AVEC, whose real name is Miriam Hufnagl, has built an international audience with songs about love, loss, farewells and vulnerability. Her music has received more than 100 million streams, and she has performed internationally. She grew up in Vöcklabruck, Upper Austria.

Rather than a conventional concert with a tightly packed crowd, the tour uses a more intimate setting, with audiences seated and able to focus on the songs. The eight-stop tour also features a band whose members are all from Vöcklabruck.

AVEC has been making music for 12 years and now runs her own label and writes her own songs. Her fourth album, titled AVEC, is her most personal yet. “I have arrived,” she said.

The concert was also a homecoming for the singer, whose mother attended. AVEC said she hopes to return to Upper Austria one day, adding that her family grounds her and gives her energy.