(NEW YORK, NY) -- Joining this year’s virtual version of the Sundance Film Festival, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is reimagining its Annual Sundance ASCAP Music Café, making the festival favorite accessible in a way it has never been before. Featuring a dynamic mix of music performances and composer and filmmaker interviews that celebrate the marriage of music and film, the lineup will kick off at www.bit.ly/ASCAPMusicCafe21 at 5:00pm EST each day from January 29 to February 1. (A free account is required.)
At its brand-new, virtual venue in the Festival Village, The Sundance ASCAP Music Café will feature musical performances from acclaimed talent and rising stars on January 29 and 30; special ASCAP Screen Time editions of VERSED: The ASCAP Podcast, featuring conversations with top ASCAP composers and their collaborators on January 31; and a final day showcasing a handpicked selection of performances from the Sundance ASCAP Music Café archives on February 1.
Musical performances include indie folk quartet Darlingside; soul singer-songwriter Devon Gilfillian, whose album Black Hole Rainbow was Grammy-nominated as Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical; founding member of acclaimed roots groups Our Native Daughters and Birds of Chicago Allison Russell and more to be announced.
VERSED: The ASCAP Podcast will host Screen Time sessions with This Is Us composer Siddhartha Khosla and Emmy-nominated composer Amanda Jones (Home, Twenties); with Passing composer Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange) and the film's director Rebecca Hall; and more.
"This unique opportunity to showcase the music and composers that bring stories to life across global screens makes this event so special to ASCAP,” said Loretta Muñoz, ASCAP Assistant Vice President, Membership. “In our 23rd year, the Sundance ASCAP Music Café continues its dedication to shining the spotlight on the magical relationship of music and film. Though we can’t all be together in person this time, we are super excited to once again share performances from some of our favorite new talents with an even wider audience, engage some of our leading composers in conversation and also share an entertaining look back on the Cafe’s incredibly rich history of stunning and unforgettable performances.”
The Sundance ASCAP Music Café virtual venue can be found in the Festival Village portal on the Main Street homepage and is accessible for free by creating an account online.
To view a complete schedule of performances and get to know the Café artists, click here.
Music in Film - The 2021 Sundance Film Festival includes many films and audio/visual projects that prominently feature the music of ASCAP's composer and songwriter members. ASCAP composers and foreign affiliates who have scored Festival films and audio/visual projects this year include: Aaron Dessner & Bryce Dessner (Jockey), Devonté Hynes (Passing), Questlove (Summer Of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised)), Sparks (The Sparks Brothers), Celia Stroom (Taming the Garden), Joe Trapanese (Prisoners of the Ghostland), Alex Somers (Together, Together), Owen Pallett (On the Count of Three), Caterina Barbieri (John & the Hole), Tim Kiefer (Marvelous & The Black Hole), John Carroll Kirby (Cryptozoo), Diana Salier (Try Harder!), Ryan Miller (How It Ends), Nathan Halpern (In The Same Breath), RenéBoscio (R#J), Time for Three (Land), Uno Helmersson (Flee), Amanda Glover (Wiggle Room), Andrea Boccadoro (Violation), Adrian Quesada (At the Ready), Alex Zhang Hungtai (I Was A Simple Man), Barrett Slagle (KKUM), Caio Amon (The Pink Cloud), Charli Circus (The Criminals), Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux(Like the Ones I Used to Know), Colin Stetson (Mayday), Craig Sutherland (This is the Way We Rise), Cristóbal MarYán (Son of Monarchs), Danny Fox (Searchers), Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch (Censor), Gavin Brivik (Wild Indian), Jamie Finlay (To Miss the Ending), Jeremy Ashbourne (Black Bodies), John Gibson (Coming Home in the Dark), Jon Natchez (Luzzu), Jonas Colstrup (President), Jules Wucherer (GNT), Julien Painot (Hive), Kaethe Hostetter (Faya Dayi), Kevin Kentera (First Date), Kwaku Konadu (Dear Philadelphia), Len Calvo (Excuse Me, Miss, Miss, Miss), Manuel Crosby (First Date), Marcin Macuk (Nightsss), Marisa Cornford (The Fire Next Time), Marius De Vries (Coda), Mark Kilian (Five Tiger), Martin Dirkov (Knocking), MasterClass (BJ's Mobile Gift Shop), Nakul Tiruviluamala (Forever), Nick Foster (Misha and the Wolves), Nicholas Poss (Ghost Dogs), Nicolau Domingues (Unliveable), Noah Lowdermilk (First Date), Olivier Alary (Night of the Kings),Philipp Schlotter (Little Miss Fate), Pierre Guerineau (I Was A Simple Man), Robert Ouyang Rusli (Bambirak), Sasha Lee (Misery Loves Company), SonX (The Unseen River), Teoniki Rożynek (Prime Time), Vince Warren(Bruiser), Weronika Lewandowska (Nightsss), XNYWOLF (Prison X - Chapter 1 : The Devil and The Sun).
For more information on individual ASCAP composers featured in this year’s Sundance Film Festival, click here.
The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a professional membership organization of songwriters, composers and music publishers of every kind of music. ASCAP's mission is to license and promote the music of its members and foreign affiliates, obtain fair compensation for the public performance of their works and to distribute the royalties that it collects based upon those performances. ASCAP members write the world's best-loved music and ASCAP has pioneered the efficient licensing of that music to hundreds of thousands of enterprises who use it to add value to their business - from bars, restaurants and retail, to radio, TV and cable, to Internet, mobile services and more. The ASCAP license offers an efficient solution for businesses to legally perform ASCAP music while respecting the right of songwriters and composers to be paid fairly. With more than 790,000 members representing more than 11.5 million copyrighted works, ASCAP is the worldwide leader in performance royalties, service and advocacy for songwriters and composers, and the only American performing rights organization (PRO) owned and governed by its writer and publisher members.
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Jason Robert Brown is a four-time Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist of The Last Five Years, Parade, Songs for a New World, 13, The Bridges of Madison County, Honeymoon In Vegas and The Connector, has performed as a soloist or with his band in venues around the world, including sold-out shows at the London Palladium and Carnegie Hall. His albums as a singer-songwriter include Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes and How We React and How We Recover on Ghostlight, and Coming From Inside the House and Live In Concert with Stephen Sondheim on Concord.
With Special Guest Tony nominee Betsy Wolfe. Tony Award-nominated actress Betsy Wolfe is currently starring as Audrey in the acclaimed Off-Broadway production of Little Shop of Horrors, following her recent Broadway run as Madeline Ashton in the hit musical Death Becomes Her. She previously originated the title role in Joy, the new musical inspired by inventor Joy Mangano, and earned a 2023 Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her celebrated performance as Anne Hathaway in & Juliet. Other Broadway credits include starring as Jenna in Waitress, Cordelia in the acclaimed revival of Falsettos, Bullets Over Broadway, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Everyday Rapture, and 110 in the Shade, as well as her critically acclaimed performance as Cathy in the Off-Broadway revival of The Last Five Years. Wolfe made her Metropolitan Opera debut in Die Fledermaus and has appeared as a guest artist with more than 65 symphony, pops, and philharmonic orchestras worldwide, including the New York Philharmonic and BBC Symphony Orchestra, with performances at Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center. Her screen credits include First One In, Estella Scrooge, CBS’s Instinct, and the film adaptation of The Last Five Years. Wolfe is also the co-founder of BroadwayEvolved, the acclaimed musical theatre training program she launched in 2018 to train and mentor the next generation of theatre artists.
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