Wednesday 1/22 @ 3:10 • Thusrday 1/23 @ 3:10
Singer songwriter Paul Brady has been at the forefront of music in Ireland for thirty years. Raised on Pop, Rock, Jazz, Blues, Country and Irish folk music, he began writing his own songs in the early 80’s and since then has firmly established himself as one of Ireland’s leading singer-songwriters. With songs covered by Tina Turner, Phil Collins, Bonnie Raitt, Trisha Yearwood, Santana, Cher, Brooks & Dunn (The No 1 country single ‘The Long Goodbye’) and many more, Paul’s strong melodies and emotionally intelligent lyrics are perfectly suited to film and television.
www.paulbrady.com

Friday 1/17 @ 5:10 • Saturday 1/18 @ 2:30
Sweden's Nicolai Dunger passes through Sundance in between promotion for his new album Tranquil Isolation recorded with Will Oldham, and sessions for his upcoming album together with Mercury Rev. Nicolai Dunger quit a promising career as a pro soccer player for a full time commitment to music. His album This Cloud is Learning from 1999 (w/Soundtrack of Our Lives) gave Nicolai a wider audience with the hit "Something in the Way". Last years effort Soul Rush, which rendered Nicolai a Swedish Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Artist, has just been released in the U.S. on Lakeshore Records.
www.nicolaidunger.com

Wednesday 1/22 @ 4:30
Frou Frou is a collaboration started three years ago in London England between Imogen Heap, a 23 year-old statuesque vocalist and Guy Sigsworth, a ground breaking Grammy-nominated producer. (Guy's past collaborations include Madonna, Bjork and Seal.) The result of their shared passion for song-writing and intelligent music resulted in this collection of innovative tracks for their debut album. Sounding like a modern-day group marriage of Moby's electronica with the vocal energy of a young Sinead O'Connor, Frou Frou take the past, present and future to new levels.
www.froufrou.net

Thursday 1/23 @ 2:30 • Friday 1/24 @ 3:10
Her debut album, A Love Story, is an inspired blend of new Philly soul coupled with the vocal maturity Green developed through years of performing in front of live audiences. Her self-penned lyrics reveal the emotional range of a young woman who's seen some of life's ups and downs. "The album actually is a love story," says Green. "I wear my heart on my sleeve." But don't expect the traditional boy-meets-girl plot line. Rather, the album is a sophisticated, autobiographical rumination on a relationship gone wrong, learning to love yourself, and then finding true love.
www.viviangreen.com

Sunday 1/19 @ 4:30 • Monday 1/20 @ 4:30
Throughout Emmylou Harris’ career, she has been respected as an artist and a song connoisseur, but with her most recent album, Red Dirt Girl, which earned Emmylou her tenth Grammy, she revealed herself also as a gifted songwriter. Though Emmylou is the most admired and influential woman in contemporary country music, her scope extends far beyond it. A longtime social activist, Harris has lent her voice to many causes, including preservation issues (the Country Music Foundation and the Grand Ole Opry), animal rights (PETA and the Humane Society) and, since 1997, she has been the most visible spokesperson for the Campaign for a Landmine Free World.
www.emmylou.net

Saturday 1/18 @ 4:30
Interscope-recording artist Jonny Lang released his debut album, Lie to Me, in 1997. It jumped to the top of the new album charts and earned him the reputation as a blues prodigy and formidable guitar player. Critics marveled at the poise and maturity the then 16-year-old displayed. In 1998, he released his follow-up, Wander This World, which allowed him to expand musically from blues to rock and ballads. Since then, the artist has been touring and working on his next album, which is planned for Spring of 2003.
www.jonnylang.com

Saturday 1/18 @ 3:50 • Sunday 1/19 @ 3:50
As a producer of masterworks by Bob Dylan, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris and U2, Daniel Lanois is unarguably one of the most significant musical minds of our time. On April 22, Anti Records will release Steel, a collection of new songs by Lanois, his first solo recording since 1993’s For The Beauty of Wynona. Recorded in locations from Mexico to Dublin, Steel reveals a remarkable range of sounds, emotions, and approaches to music-making. The album represents a lifetime spent absorbing blues, rock, country and folk song.
www.daniellanois.com

Tuesday 1/21 @ 3:10 • Thursday 1/23 @ 3:50
Multi-platinum selling, Grammy nominated recording artist, Alejandro Lerner began his music career as a session musician. Currently signed to Universal Records, he has released 13 recordings. An award winning film composer ("Los Pasajeros del Jardin" and "Testigos en Cadena") Lerner is currently collaborating with director Cesar Alejando on the "Mariposa Cruz". As a songwriter he has worked with some of the most important artists of Latin America, Canada and the United States - Luis Miguel, Celine Dion, Carole King and Ricky Martin to name a few.
www.alejandrolerner.net

Monday 1/20 @ 3:10 • Wednesday @ 2:30
Doug Martsch became obsessed with traditional blues after listening to Fred McDowell’s The First recordings in 1998. Since then, he has tried to emulate McDowell’s style with open guitar tuning and a glass slide. Martsch had been playing slide on Built to Spill records, but started playing his own music with some friends. The result was his first solo album, Now You Know, released in 2002 by Warner Brothers.
www.dougmartsch.com

Tuesday 1/21 @ 2:30
Of Scottish-Greek descent, Alexi Murdoch has been described as having "the voice of Nick Drake, the lyrical gifts of Harry Chapin and the good looks of Tim Buckley." After just a short time performing in Los Angeles, Alexi was discovered by KCRW's Nic Harcourt, who has since featured him regularly on "Morning Becomes Eclectic" and the nationally syndicated, "Sounds Eclectic." As a result, Alexi's songs began to appear on radio stations around the country, and have since been used on the WB Network hit show "Dawson's Creek." Alexi's shows are stirring, drawing sell-out crowds who are eager for his engaging, melodic music. Live, he is mesmerizing, charming and playful.
www.aleximurdoch.com

Sunday 1/19 @ 3:10 • Monday 1/20 @ 3:50
Over the past six years and seven HighTone albums collectively, Buddy and Julie Miller have become the most celebrated musical couple since the glory years of George Jones and Tammy Wynette. This husband and wife duo has toured and recorded with such artists as Emmylou Harris and Steve Earle, and their songs have been recorded by a host of performers - from the Dixie Chicks to Emmylou Harris and Lee Ann Womack to Hank Williams III. As performers, songwriters and musicians, Buddy and Julie Miller have become a kind of cottage industry.
www.buddyandjulie.com

Friday 1/17 @ 5:50 • Tuesday 1/21 @ 3:50
Beth Nielsen Chapman’s newest release, Deeper Still, was recently voted "Album Of The Year" by Terry Wogan at the BBC. With guests John Prine, Bonnie Raitt, Emmylou Harris, John Hiatt and Andy Bey, it follows Sand & Water (‘97), the title track of which was performed by Elton John on his 1997 U.S. tour in place of "Candle In The Wind". Beth Nielsen Chapman’s number one hits include Faith Hill's Grammy nominated "This Kiss" and "Nothing I Can Do About It Now" for Willie Nelson. Everyone from Bonnie Raitt to Ute Lemper have recorded BNC songs, most recently, "Free" the lead off track on Faith Hill’s newest effort.
www.bethnielsenchapman.net

Friday 1/17 @ 6:30 • Thursday 1/23 @ 4:30
Judith Owen has been described as one of the "great talents of her generation" by folk rock legend Richard Thompson. The Welsh-born singer, songwriter and piano player has a witty, theatrical flair that plays perfectly off the deep, emotional nature of her music. The L.A. Times calls Judith "whip-smart and endearing," while Variety Magazine describes her as having "an early Randy Newman charm …she's a rocker and a jazz chanteuse, a charmer and a seducer." Judith's new album, 12 Arrows, featuring duets with Thompson and Julia Fordham, will be released in Feb. '03.
www.judithowen.net

Friday 1/24 @ 2:30
Since moving from his native Colorado, to the paved Los Angeles metropolis in 1999, singer-songwriter Patrick Park has been turning heads aplenty. In 2002, with just a microphone, & an acoustic guitar, his live shows brought him to the attention of Beth Orton, who enlisted him as a touring mate, while his EP, The Basement Tapes, turned heads at Britain's famed music magazine, NME.
www.patrickpark.net

Saturday 1/18 @ 3:10 • Sunday 1/19 @ 2:30
Damien Rice was born on the outskirts of Dublin in the early 70's. In 2000 he borrowed money from those that would lend it and he recorded his demo and sent it off to renowned producer and film composer, David Arnold (Bjork, James Bond). Arnold liked what he heard and provided enough money for Damien to buy his own mobile studio. His debut album O was released in Ireland in 2002 and was immediately lauded by the critics as mesmerizing, absorbing, adventurous and emotional. Damien was nominated for Meteor Irish Music Awards and a BBC Hot Press Rock Award. O has since garnered platinum status in Ireland.
www.damienrice.com

Friday 1/17 @ 4:30 • Monday 1/20 @ 2:30
At age 25, Josh Ritter's songs are a rare gift of natural, intuitive beauty. Hailing from the small town of Moscow, Idaho, Ritter's debut album GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO is an intimate, understated collection that rekindles the warm glow of a young Springsteen or Johnny Cash and is, by all accounts, simply "stunning" (HotPress). Like David Gray before him, Ritter has found his second home in Ireland, where his debut single has entered the charts at #40 and he's selling out national tours. Not bad for a kid from Idaho.
www.joshritter.com

Tuesday 1/21 @ 4:30 • Friday 1/24 @ 3:50
New Zealand "It Girl" Bic Runga is back with her own brand of ethereal pop. She's been described as soothing and seductive, a kiwi with killer talent, she is exotic, edgy but not angry, Oceania's most enduring cultural import since that cuddly Quantas koala, she is radiant but unpolished, less fiery than Fiona but more interesting than Alanis.
www.bicrunga.com

Fri, 1/17 @ 9:00 The Owl Bar
Mary Beth Maziarz began singing in the rich jazz and folk communities of Chicago while in college, then moved her life to the mountains of Park City, Utah, where she founded a record company, Musaic Records, and now makes her home. Park City proved to be the perfect hub for a flourishing career, providing not only a central location for touring but also a terrific entertainment center in itself. Her music has been featured in Sundance premieres like "Broken Hearts Club" and used heavily in the teenage drama "Dawson's Creek." Her association with the WB show grew even stronger when she appeared on the show in seasons past.

Maziarz has released four indie albums, with the most recent title topping Amazon's "Emerging Artist" bestsellers list as number 1# selling album on for both the Pop and Adult Contemporary categories for over two months. Recently, she was ranked 20th on Amazon's overall Pop list, selling better than thousands of major-label artists. Maziarz will head back into the studio this spring to record a project with her new band, "Velvet."
www.marybethmusic.com