Sundance 2004

June 2004

Another long line of people wait to get into the Music Café.

Over the past five years the Music Café has featured both legendary and cutting edge artists from across the musical spectrum such as India.Arie, Deana Carter, Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell, Peter Gabriel, Patty Griffin, Emmylou Harris, Jonny Lang, Daniel Lanois, Nickel Creek, Old 97's, Damien Rice, Josh Ritter, and Bernie Worrell, among many others.


Songwriter and film composer Jon Brion, Nickel Creek's Sean and Sara Watkins, Dan Wilson and ASCAP's Wade Metzler.	Pictured (l-r) The All-American Rejects' Nick Wheeler and Tyson Ritter go acoustic.


ASCAP’s Tom DeSavia, Joe Jackson manager Mike Maska, Jackson, ASCAP’s Loretta Muñoz and The Agency Group’s Linda Kordek.	Judy Wexler with composer and Director of the Sundance Composers Lab Peter Golub after her performance at the Music Café.	Shawn Colvin on the Music Café stage.

Music Meets Film Brunch

ASCAP welcomed filmmakers and composers to a relaxing brunch at Cisero's Restaurant in Park City on Monday, January 19th for a chance to meet and talk about their work. Several composers with music in films at Sundance this year were in attendance, including Barry Eastmond who scored the music for the documentary Chisholm '72 –- Unbought & Unbossed and Steve Horowitz, who scored the music to this year’s Sundance hit Super Size Me.

Pictured above left (l-r) at Cisero's are Chisholm '72 Executive Producer Ramon Hervey, ASCAP's Mike Todd, composer Barry Eastmond, ASCAP's Jeanie Weems and Kevin Coogan and, below, left, film director Paul Barnett (Confessions of a Burning Man), composer Steve Horowitz, who scored this year’s Sundance documentary Super Size Me, and The Rights Group’s Brooke Wentz.

ASCAP’s Snowbound Soiree at the Fader/ Levi’s Lodge

ASCAP's Snowbound Soiree at the Fader/Levi's Lodge featured special fireside performances by Jon Brion, Jon Doe, Joseph Arthur and the All-American Rejects. Invitees to this special event, co-sponsored by Fader, Levi's and Miller High Life and held in a lodge at night on a mountainside outside of Park City, were treated to an intimate "in the round" show by some of ASCAP's Music Café performers.

Above, successful pop songwriter/producer/film composer Jon Brion (left) accompanied songwriter John Doe, former member of the legendary punk band X, by the fire at ASCAP's Snowbound Soiree party.


Above, the All American Rejects' Tyson Ritter and Nick Wheeler performing at ASCAP's Snowbound Soiree at the Fader/Levi's Lodge. Right, Invitees to the Soiree at the Lodge.

Composer Night at Plan B

At Park City's Plan B club on Monday night, January 19th, a special concert was presented featuring ASCAP composers performing their works that have been used in films. Performers included Marc Anthony Thompson (aka Chocolate Genius), Stephen Trask (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and Nathan Larson (Boy's Don't Cry) with The Cardigans' Nina Persson.

Pictured above (l-r) are composer Nathan Larson, The Cardigans' Nina Persson, ASCAP's Kevin Coogan and Mike Todd. Above, center, Marc Anthony Thompson (aka Chocolate Genius), and above, right, pictured backstage at the Music Café are Bryce Gaeta, Stephen Trask and ASCAP’s Sue Devine.

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