From Pop to Country to Folk, ASCAP Songwriters Give Sundance an Earful
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| Nashville sensation Billy Currington
rips it up with his hot band of musicians
on the café stage |
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As ASCAP's Music Café
at the Sundance Film Festival entered
its fourth and fifth day, filmmakers
and music fans continued to make the
Café a must-stop on their daily
rounds. Hit songwriter/producer Linda
Perry gave a rare live performance
of her work for such artists as Pink,
Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilera.
Country music sensation Billy Currington arrived with
a band of ace Nashville musicians
and turned Plan B into a rowdy honky-tonk
joint. Suzanne Vega and Mary Gauthier
served up more poignant moments with
intimate and personal songs that hushed
the crowd.
Special guests seen at the Café
included composers George Clinton
and Peter Golub, Alice Cooper and
the cast of the Sundance documentary,
Rock School, about the school in Philadelphia
that inspired the hit film, School
of Rock.
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Linda Perry wowed
the crowd
with her hit pop songs.
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Suzanne Vega sang
many of her well-known songs that
have been used in film.
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Michael McDonald
with composer George Clinton and composer
and Director of the Sundance Composers
Lab, Peter Golub.
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Film
Music "Meet and Eat"
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ASCAP welcomed filmmakers
and composers to a relaxing brunch
at Cisero's Restaurant on Tuesday,
January 25th, for a chance to meet
and talk about their work. Several
composers with music in films at Sundance
this year were in attendance, including
Ryan Shore, who scored the music for
the film, 212, as well as Alexandre
Desplat, who scored The Upside
of Anger and Marcelo Zarvos,
who scored this year's Strangers
With Candy.
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Pictured (l-r) are
ASCAP's Mike Todd, composer agent Laura
Engel, composer Alexandre Desplat, manager
Bobby Urband and ASCAP's Sue Devine.
Desplat scored this year's Sundance
film, The Upside of Anger, as well as
the 2004 films, Girl with a Pearl Earring and Birth. |
| Filmmaker/Composer
Spotlight: Hal Hartley
Veteran Sundance filmmaker
Hal Hartley (The Unbelievable
Truth, The Book of Life,
Simple Men, Henry Fool)
returns to the festival this year
with a sci-fi flick, The Girl
from Monday. Hartley also composes
the music for most of his films, including
his new one.
For The Girl from Monday,
Hartley says, "I was after a
sort of collision of acoustic and
mechanical music. Traditional instrumentation
with electronic techniques. More than
any of my other movies, the music
drives this one. For whole sequences,
the music is like a script. We cut
the pictures to it almost like a music
video." |
Filmmaker/Composer
Hal Hartley's The Girl from Monday |
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