As the The 2012 Sundance ASCAP Music Café
An incredibly eclectic range of singer-songwriters and bands took the stage to give audiences a rare, intimate and unforgettable display of music’s power. Performers for the second half of the 8-day event included Bailey Cooke, Dayna Kurtz, Mike Viola and Ryan Miller, Erin Barra, Chris Velan, The Two, Flying Lotus, Greg Laswell, The All-American Rejects, Lisa Hannigan, Ingrid Michaelson and David Gray.
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Throughout the week, actors, filmmakers and other special guests gathered at the café to enjoy the performances and to meet with the artists and ASCAP staff. On Monday, January 24th, some of the creators behind the film Filly Brown stopped in to meet and mingle. Special guests at the Music Café on Tuesday, January 24th included actress Carrie Preston (True Blood ), who directed this year’s Sundance film That’s What She Said , and Kellie Overbey, screenwriter of the film. They attended the performance of Mike Viola and Tim Adams, who co-scored and wrote songs for the film. Special guests at the Café on Thursday, January 26th were two of the creators of the Sundance documentary Something from Nothing: The Art of Rap , the film’s director Andy Baybutt and producer Paul Toogood, as well as Grandmaster Caz, who appears in the documentary. The Sundance Institute’s Senior Programmer John Nein also came by to watch David Gray’s performance.
In its 14th year as a special program of the Sundance Film Festival, the Sundance ASCAP Music Café continues to bring together the filmmaking community in a space where music’s integral role in the art form is highlighted and celebrated in a most memorable way.
On Tuesday, January 24th ASCAP also hosted a exclusive after-show cocktail party at the Music Cafe for festival film directors, producers and composers including Sundance Programming Director Trevor Groth, and directors and producers of Nobody Walks (2012 Special Jury Prize Winner, picked up by Magnolia Pictures), A Fierce Green Fire (2012), I Am Not A Hipster (2012), Kinyarwanda (2011 World Cinema Audience Award), Brick (2005 Special Jury Prize Winner) and composers Ben Toth (Liberal Arts , picked up by IFC Films), J Ralph (Chasing Ice , picked up by the National Geographic Channel, 2012 Winner for Excellence in Cinematography Award: US Doc.), Heather McIntosh (Compliance , picked up by Magnolia Pictures), Fall On Your Sword (Nobody Walks , picked up by Magnolia Pictures, 2012 Winner of Special Jury Prize for Excellence in Independent Film Producing) and Ilan Isakov (:Ai Weiwei Never Sorry , 2012 Winner for U.S. Doc Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance).
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The 2012 Sundance ASCAP Music Café
A special guest performance on Monday, January 23rd featured Rodriguez, the subject of a hot new Sundance documentary directed by Malik Bendjelloul called Searching for Sugar Man , which became the talk of Park City almost immediately. The film, about a Mexican-American folk singer's rise, seeming demise and re-emergence, has already been picked up by Sony Pictures Classics.
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Other performers over the opening weekend included artists with music that figures prominently in films at this year’s festival. Terence Etc. (aka Terence Nance), who performed on Friday, January 20th, is also the director of this year’s Sundance film, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty .
Another highlight of this year's Café was John Forté, who brought along some incredible musical comrades to join him onstage, including Ben Taylor, Natasha Bedingfield and Laura Lippey.
For more information on the Sundance ASCAP Music Café and to view the complete schedule, please visit www.ascap.com/sundance
