The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) announces the ASCAP songwriters and composers taking the stage for the 26th Annual Sundance ASCAP Music Café at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. Together with Acura, longtime Presenting Sponsor and Official Vehicle of Sundance Film Festival, the Café will feature live music performances and interviews with top film music composers from 2-6 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 21, and Monday, Jan. 22, at Acura’s House of Energy, 480 Swede Alley at 5th St.

Spotlighting some of today’s most exciting musical storytellers, the Sundance ASCAP Music Café will feature a performance from the “DIG! XX” Dandy Jonestown Revue, comprised of members from the dueling rock bands featured in the Sundance Film Festival 2004 Grand Jury Award-winning rock documentary “DIG!.” Joel Gion, Jeff Davies and Miranda Lee Richards (The Brian Jonestown Massacre) and Zia McCabe and Eric Hedford (The Dandy Warhols) will take the stage to celebrate the 20th anniversary edition of the film, “DIG! XX,” which premieres at this year’s festival featuring 40 minutes of previously unseen footage. 

Also appearing on the Sundance ASCAP Music Café stage will be independent singer-songwriter Evan Bartels, whose music takes an unflinching look at the deepest parts of the human experience; Americana supergroup Fantastic Cat, four songwriters who mix genres and decades in their musical collaborations; folk singer-songwriter Mary Scholz and Nigerian-American singer-songwriter Ogi.

ASCAP Screen Time, the ASCAP Film & Television team’s ongoing interview series about the craft and business of music for screens, will host three exclusive conversations with the creators behind some of the festival’s most anticipated films. Composer Nathan Halpern and producer/director Josh Greenbaum will discuss their highly anticipated documentary “Will & Harper,” an intimate portrayal of friendship, transition and America that follows Will Ferrell and his best buddy of 30 years on a cross-country road trip. Bronx rap artist and “As We Speak” film subject Kemba will join the film’s producer/director J.M. Harper in a conversation and will perform an a capella song featured in the film. And composer Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe will speak with “Union” co-directors Brett Story and Stephen Maing on scoring their documentary about the formation of the Amazon Labor Union.

“As we head into our 26th year, the Sundance ASCAP Music Café will continue bringing great music to Park City! We’ll celebrate filmmaking and the magic of music with two days of incredible performances and interviews,” said Loretta Muñoz, ASCAP Assistant Vice President, Membership. “We’re excited to present this year’s lineup of songwriters and composers and thrilled to continue this tradition with our new partners at Acura.”

See the full schedule and get performer/panelist bios at www.ascap.com/sundance2024.

For the latest information on ASCAP events at the Sundance Film Festival, follow ASCAP on Instagram, Facebook and X, and through the event hashtag, #ASCAPMusicCafe.

Music in Film

The 2024 Sundance Film Festival includes many films and audio/visual projects that prominently feature the music of ASCAP’s composer and songwriter members. ASCAP composers and foreign affiliates who have scored Festival films and audio/visual projects this year include:

Michael Abels (“The American Society of Magical Negroes”), Geoff Zanelli (“10 Lives”), Cristobal Tapia de Veer (“Ponyboi”), Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (“Union,” “Power and Being”), Este Haim and Christopher Stracey (“Suncoast”), Nathan Halpern (“Will & Harper”), Nainita Desai (“Nocturnes”), Andrew Hewitt (“It’s What’s Inside”), Graham Reynolds (“Hit Man,” “God Save Texas”), Giosuè Greco (Dìdi), William Ryan Fritch (“As We Speak,” “The Battle for Laikipia”), Samantha Crain (“Winding Path”), Caitlin Yeo (“Every Little Thing”), Jackson Greenberg (“LOLLA: THE STORY OF LOLLAPALOOZA”), Julia Piker (“Penelope”), Peter Raeburn (“Handling the Undead”), René G. Boscio (“Pathological”), Frederic Alvarez (“In the Land of Brothers”), Chris Bailoni (“Bob’s Funeral”), Ádám Balázs (“Agent of Happiness”), Richard Córdoba (“IGUALADA”), Steve Francis (“The Moogai”), Gifted Gab and Elijah Grae (“Freaky Tales”), Stephen Gallagher (“Lea Tupu’anga”), John Gürtler and Jan Miserre (“The Outrun”), Sterling Hampton IV (“Merman”), Ilari Heinilä (“Sebastian”), Celia Hollander (“Good One”), Charles Humenry (“Didn’t Think I’d See You Here”), Natasha Jacobs (“Bug Diner”), Sami Jano (“Drago”), Gregor Keienburg and Raffael Seyfried (“Eternal You”), Sneha Khanwalkar (“Girls Will Be Girls”), Lucas Lechowski (“Pasture Prime”), Raül Fernandez Miró (“La Mesías”), Toke Brorson Odin (“Brief History of a Family”), Aaron C. Schroeder (“Dream Creep”), Dimitri Simakis (“The Rainbow Bridge”), Jason Smith and Karl Sölve Steven (“Never Look Away”), Umberto Smerilli (“A Different Man”), Quinn Tsan (“Ghostlight”), Tim Williams (“Your Monster”) and Yasna Vismale (“To Be Invisible”).

This year Sundance is also welcoming back several feature films as part of their “Special Screenings” series. The following films feature works from the following ASCAP composers and foreign affiliates: Jed Kurzel (“The Babadook”) and Pawel Mykietyn (“War Game”).Find more information about the ASCAP composers at this year’s Festival www.ascap.com/sundancecomposers2024.

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The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) announces its return to the Sundance Film Festival for the 26th Annual Sundance ASCAP Music Café in partnership with longtime sponsor and official vehicle of the festival, Acura.

As part of Acura’s festival programming, the Sundance ASCAP Music Café will host two days of live music performances and interviews with top film music composers from 2-6 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 21 and Monday, Jan. 22. The Music Café will be located within Acura’s venue at 480 Swede Alley at 5th Street. More details, including participating songwriters and composers, will be announced in the coming weeks.

For more than 25 years, the Sundance ASCAP Music Café has highlighted diverse voices while celebrating the marriage of sight and sound in the art of filmmaking. This year’s Café will feature exclusive sets from some of today’s most exciting songwriters, plus insightful conversations with the composers and filmmakers of some of this year’s most anticipated films.

In the past, ASCAP has hosted songwriters and artists including Patti Smith, Chris Stapleton, St. Vincent, Andrew Bird, Emmylou Harris, Jon Batiste & Stay Human, Neil Young & Graham Nash, Sting & J. Ralph, Michael McDonald, Leon Bridges, Michael Franti, Flying Lotus, Seu Jorge & Jaques Morelenbaum, Saul Williams, Peter Gabriel, Madison Cunningham, Ben Harper, India.Arie, Brandy Clark, Kings of Leon, Lee Ann Womack, Jason Mraz, Damien Rice, David Gray, LeAnn Rimes, Rufus Wainwright, Wyclef Jean, Jon Brion, Imogen Heap, Donovan, Nickel Creek and Rodney Crowell.

For the latest information on ASCAP events at the Sundance Film Festival, follow #ASCAPMusicCafe on X and Instagram @ASCAP and on Facebook. For more information, visit ascap.com.

ABOUT ASCAP

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a professional membership organization of songwriters, composers and music publishers of every kind of music. ASCAP’s mission is to license and promote the music of its members and foreign affiliates, obtain fair compensation for the public performance of their works and to distribute the royalties that it collects based upon those performances. ASCAP members write the world’s best-loved music and ASCAP has pioneered the efficient licensing of that music to hundreds of thousands of enterprises who use it to add value to their business – from bars, restaurants and retail, to radio, TV and cable, to Internet, mobile services and more. The ASCAP license offers an efficient solution for businesses to legally perform ASCAP music while respecting the right of songwriters and composers to be paid fairly. With more than 960,000 members representing more than 18 million copyrighted works, ASCAP is the worldwide leader in performance royalties, service and advocacy for songwriters and composers, and the only American performing rights organization (PRO) owned and governed by its writer and publisher members.  

About Acura

Acura is a leading automotive brand committed to delivering expressive styling, innovative engineering and high-performance, all built on the brand’s Precision Crafted Performance DNA. The Acura lineup consists of two sport sedans, the Integra and TLX, and three sport-utility vehicles, the RDX, MDX and all-electric ZDX. A line of high-performance Type S variants further demonstrate the virtues of Acura Precision Crafted Performance. All Acura vehicles sold in America are made in the U.S., using domestic and globally sourced parts.

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ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) announces an eclectic music lineup for its 22nd Annual Sundance ASCAP Music Café, taking place Jan. 24-31 at 751 Main St. during the acclaimed Sundance Film Festival.

Beginning at 2 p.m. each day, the café will feature a dynamic mix of both established and emerging songwriters and artists such as Matt Berninger (of The National), Derek Smalls (formerly of the band formerly known as Spinal Tap), the bird and the bee, Barry Zito, Aaron Lee Tasjan, Matthew Koma (of Winnetka Bowling League) and ZZ Ward.

“For 22 years, Sundance ASCAP Music Café has shined a spotlight on the exquisite alchemy of sound and vision embodied by the art of filmmaking,” said Loretta Muñoz, ASCAP Assistant Vice President, Membership. “We are continuing the tradition in 2020 with eight days of musical performances by extraordinary artists throughout the Festival. You will hear unique sets from artists you already know and love, and you’re guaranteed to find some new loves too.”

Other featured performers at the 2020 Sundance ASCAP Music Café include: Alex Lilly, Colter Wall, Fox Wilde, James Bourne, Jamie Drake, Joe Robinson, Joseph Arthur, LÉON, Lizbeth Román, Rain Phoenix, Ron Artis II, Ruen Brothers, Samantha Sidley, Stephen Kellogg, Steven Dayvid McKellar (of Civil Twilight) and NewSong Music Competition winner Jobi Riccio.

The Sundance ASCAP Music Café takes place at 751 Main Street, and is open to all Festival credential holders, ages 21 and older.

For the latest information on ASCAP events at the Sundance Film Festival, as well as on-site coverage, follow ASCAP on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, and through the event hashtag, #ASCAPMusicCafe.

In addition to the Music Cafe, ASCAPw will host the ASCAP Composer-Filmmaker Cocktail Party on Monday, Jan. 7.

This is an invite-only, after-show celebration held at the Sundance ASCAP Music Café. The private event is for festival filmmakers, ASCAP film composers, Sundance ASCAP Music Café artists and music supervisors.

Festival filmmakers and film composers who are interested in attending may contact filmtv@ascap.com for further details.

This year’s Sundance Film Festival includes many films and audio/visual projects that prominently feature the music of ASCAP’s composer and songwriter members.

ASCAP composers and foreign affiliates who have scored Festival films and New Frontier projects this year include:

Hans Zimmer (“Rebuilding Paradise”), John Debney (“Come Away”), Pinar Toprak (“McMillions”), Bear McCreary (“Crip Camp”), John Paesano (“Tesla”), St. Vincent (“The Nowhere Inn”), Dan Romer (“Wendy”), Alex Somers (“Miss Americana,” “The Charm City Kings”), Ty Segall (“Whirlybird”), Richard Reed Parry (“The Nest”), Alex Weston (“Wander Darkly”), Hauschka (“Downhill,” “The Perfect Candidate”), Anne Nikitin (“Lost Girls”), Jay Wadley (“I Carry You With Me”), Nico Muhly (“Worth”), Garth Stevenson (“Little Chief”), Joseph Arthur (“Okavango: River of Dreams”), Amanda Jones (“Baldwin Beauty”), Benjamin Woodgates (“Dream Horse”), Katya Mihailova (“Code for Bias”), Antonio Pinto (“Nine Days”), Elegant Too (“Scare Me”), Peter Albrechtsen (“The Killing of Two Lovers”), Bob Allaire (“Beast Beast” – addtl music), Olivier Alary (“Softie”), Kristian Eidnes Andersen (“The Charter”), Roque Baños (“His House”), Amine Bouhafa (“So what if the goats die”), Courtney Bryan (“The 40-Year Old Version”), Robin Coudert (“Run Sweetheart Run”), Jason Martin Castillo (“Place”), Florencia Di Concilio (“Influence”), Nainita Desai (“Reason I Jump”), Karim Sebastian Elias (“Saudi Runaway”), Ludovico Einaudi (“The Father”), Fabrice Faltraue (“Inès”), Thomas Gallet (“My Juke-Box”), Adam Gunther (“Three Deaths”), Neil Haverty (“Hot Flash”), Jon Hegel (“Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on the Exorcist”), Uno Helmersson (“The Painter and the Thief”), Dickon Hinchliffe (“Into the Deep”), Martin Horntveth (“Do Not Split,” “The Farce”), Josh Kaufman (“We Are Freestyle Love Supreme”), Michael Krassner (“The Evening Hour”), Fabrice Lecomte (“Sylvie’s Love”), Lucas Lechowski (“Benevolent Ba”), Nascuy Linares (“Luxor,” “Once Upon a Time in Venezuela”), Juan Luqui (“The Fight”), Michelle Miles (“how did we get here?”), Jon Natchez (“The Climb”), James Newberry (“Buck”), Andrew Orkin (“Save Yourselves!”), Owen Pallett (“Spaceship Earth”), Adam Peters (“The Dissident”), Mark Phillips (“Betye Saar: Taking Care of Business”) Nathan Prillaman (“Dirty”), Coco Reilly (“The Starr Sisters”), Thomas Roussel (“Jumbo”), Colin Sigor (“Broken Orchestra”), Eddie Simonsen (“Chemo Brain”), Josiah Steinbrick (“Horse Girl”), Jeremy Turner (“Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind”), Vincent van Warmerdam (“Mole Agent”), Zsuzsanna Varkonyi (“Epicentro”), Fernando Velázquez (“Sergio”) and Jim Williams (“Possessor”).

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a professional membership organization of songwriters, composers and music publishers of every kind of music. ASCAP’s mission is to license and promote the music of its members and foreign affiliates, obtain fair compensation for the public performance of their works and to distribute the royalties that it collects based upon those performances. ASCAP members write the world’s best-loved music and ASCAP has pioneered the efficient licensing of that music to hundreds of thousands of enterprises who use it to add value to their business – from bars, restaurants and retail, to radio, TV and cable, to Internet, mobile services and more. The ASCAP license offers an efficient solution for businesses to legally perform ASCAP music while respecting the right of songwriters and composers to be paid fairly. With more than 735,000 members representing more than 11.5 million copyrighted works, ASCAP is the worldwide leader in performance royalties, service and advocacy for songwriters and composers, and the only American performing rights organization (PRO) owned and governed by its writer and publisher members.

To view a complete schedule of performances and hear the music of Café artists, visit www.ascap.com/sundance2020.

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There has been a new addition to the ASCAP Music Café schedule.

Sting, with special guest J. Ralph, will perform on Saturday, Jan. 23, at 5:30 p.m., ASCAP announced Wednesday. The performance is in support of the HBO documentary "Jim: The James Foley Story." The film makes its world premiere in the U.S. Documentary Competition of the Sundance Film Festival and includes their original song "The Empty Chair."

Sting, the 10-time Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter for The Police, has released 14 solo albums and is an Emmy Award recipient, He also has won two Brits, a Golden Globe, and has been nominated for three Academy Awards.

He is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He and the multi-platinum-selling Police were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003.

Last year, Sting received the Kennedy Center Honors and a Tony Award nomination for his musical, "The Last Ship," which is also the title of his most recent album. "The Last Ship" is inspired by his memories of the shipbuilding community in his childhood hometown of Wallsend, England.

J. Ralph is an Academy Award-nominated composer, producer, singer and social activist from New York City who focuses on creating awareness and change through music and film. His music has sold more than 10 million records worldwide, reaching the #1 spot on the Billboard top 100 charts in over 22 countries.

He has written and produced the music for six Oscar-winning and Oscar-nominated films including "Man on Wire" (2009), "The Cove" (2010), "Hell and Back Again" (2012), "Chasing Ice" (2013), "Finding Vivian Maier" (2015) and "Virunga" (2015). For his contribution to "Chasing Ice," J. Ralph received an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song with "Before My Time," performed by Scarlett Johansson and Joshua Bell.

Ralph produced the 2014 Oscar-nominated song "The Moon Song," performed by Karen O. and Ezra Koenig of Vampire Weekend while accompanying the duo on guitar, from the Academy Award winning film "Her," directed by Spike Jonze. In the summer of 2015, J. Ralph was commissioned by Discovery Channel to write and produce an original symphonic work for Shark Week to raise money and awareness for species extinction and oceanic preservation.

The ASCAP Music Café, 625 Main St., will offer live music from Friday, Jan. 22, through Friday, Jan. 29 during the Sundance Film Festival. The Café is open to all Sundance Film Festival credential holders as space allows. For more information, visit www.sundance.org and www.ascap.com/sundance.

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