David Gray, Ingrid Michaelson, The All-American Rejects, Garland Jeffreys, James McCartney and Josh Kelley Among Top Talent Performing at 2012 Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe
(firmenpresse) - NEW YORK, NY -- (Marketwire) -- 01/12/12 -- ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is pleased to announce its lineup of events for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Returning for the 14th year, the will present an exciting and dynamic mix of composers, songwriters and artists from across the musical spectrum and around the world. In addition, this year an invitation-only will take place January 24th, providing a fantastic opportunity for filmmakers and music creators to connect in a warm and intimate setting.
"Now in our 14th year, ASCAP is delighted to continue this very successful partnership with the Sundance Film Festival, with whom we mutually share the mission of discovering and cultivating great talent," said Sundance ASCAP Music Café producer Loretta Muñoz, ASCAP Assistant Vice President. "We are excited to present this year's Music Café artists to the Sundance Film Festival with eight days of incredible music. Our Music Café is loved for the great performances in this beautiful and intimate setting. It is the perfect place for filmmakers to connect with composers, songwriters and artists, fostering new relationships between the music and film communities."
The Sundance ASCAP Music Café will be located at Rich Haines Gallery (751 Main Street, Park City, UT). It is open to Festival credential holders from January 20th to 27th, 2012. Performances begin each day at 2:00 p.m. The featured performers include: , and For the complete schedule, bios and photos of the performing artists, visit ASCAP's website at . Want to sample some of the great music from this year's performers? Check out our "Sundance ASCAP Music Café 2012 Playlist" on Spotify: (free Spotify account required).
The 2012 Festival includes many films that prominently feature the music of ASCAP's composer and songwriter members. ASCAP composers who have scored festival films this year include: (The Surrogate); (Elena); (The Words); (This Must Be the Place); (The Movement: One Man Joins an Uprising); (Red Hook Summer); (ME (at) THE ZOO); (Chasing Ice); (That's What She Said); (The Arm); (Twenty-eight Hotel Rooms, Nobody Walks); (Safety Not Guaranteed); (Price Check); (Liberal Arts); (Robot and Frank); (Shadow Dancer); (Celeste and Jesse Forever); (663114), (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) and many others.
The Sundance ASCAP Music Café is the focal point for music at the Festival. It is dedicated to showcasing the exceptional talent of emerging and established artists, including solo acts and major bands, and is a place where independent filmmakers can meet and interact with composers and songwriters to encourage collaboration between these two creative communities. This year's program features eight days of stellar programming, presenting songwriters and composers associated with Festival films along with other legendary and cutting-edge artists.
On the evening of January 24th, ASCAP will host the ASCAP Composer-Filmmaker Cocktail Party. This is an invite-only, after-show celebration held at the Sundance ASCAP Music Café. This private event is for Festival filmmakers, ASCAP film composers, ASCAP Music Café artists and music supervisors. Festival filmmakers and film composers who are interested in attending may contact Rachel Perkins at for further details.
A program of the non-profit Sundance Institute, the Festival has introduced global audiences to some of the most ground-breaking films of the past two decades, including sex, lies, and videotape, Maria Full of Grace, The Cove, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, An Inconvenient Truth, Precious, Trouble the Water, and Napoleon Dynamite, and through its New Frontier initiative, has showcased the cinematic works of media artists including Isaac Julien, Doug Aitken, Pierre Huyghe, Jennifer Steinkamp, and Matthew Barney.
Sundance Institute is a global nonprofit organization founded by Robert Redford in 1981. Through its artistic development programs for directors, screenwriters, producers, composers and playwrights, the Institute seeks to discover and support independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work. The Institute promotes independent storytelling to inform, inspire, and unite diverse populations around the globe. Internationally recognized for its annual Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Institute has nurtured such projects as Born into Brothels, Trouble the Water, Son of Babylon, Amreeka, An Inconvenient Truth, Spring Awakening, I Am My Own Wife, Light in the Piazza and Angels in America. Join Sundance Institute on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
Established in 1914, ASCAP is the first and leading U.S. Performing Rights Organization (PRO) representing the world's largest repertory totaling over 8.5 million copyrighted musical works of every style and genre from more than 420,000 songwriter, composer and music publisher members. ASCAP has representation arrangements with similar foreign organizations so that the ASCAP repertory is represented in nearly every country around the world where copyright law exists. ASCAP protects the rights of its members and foreign affiliates by licensing the public performances of their copyrighted works and distributing royalties based upon surveyed performances. ASCAP is the only American PRO owned and governed by its writer and publisher members.
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