SUNDANCE ASCAP MUSIC CAFE RETURNS TO PARK CITY

ASCAP will return to Park City on 1/26-27 for the 27th annual Sundance ASCAP Music Café at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

This year’s eclectic program will include performances from Eric Bazilian of The Hooters paired with James Bourne of pop-punk band Busted; Grammy-winning songwriter Toby Gad alongside singer-actress Antonique Smith and rising singer-songwriter Mae Mae; southern rock band The Wild Feathers, Nashville singer-songwriter HAFFWAY and Mexican-Dominican singer-songwriter Ambar Lucid.

ASCAP Screen Time, the ASCAP Film & Television team’s ongoing interview series about the craft and business of music for screens, will host four exclusive conversations with the creators behind some of the festival’s most anticipated films. Composer Jeff Morrow will speak with director Cristina Constantini on scoring SALLY, a documentary about Sally Ride, the first woman to blast off into space.

Composer Katya Mihailova will discuss working on the documentary How to Build a Library, a story that follows two Kenyan women as they transform a dilapidated, junk-filled town library in downtown Nairobi into a hub for the city’s citizens and creatives. The interview series will also feature conversations with composer Josh Dibb and director Albert Birney on OBEX, a black-and-white fantasy film following a man living in seclusion with his dog, as well as composer Jay Wadley on his score for The Wedding Banquet starring Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone.

Loretta Muñoz, ASCAP AVP Membership, said, “At a time when so many in our community are feeling the effects of the L.A fires., we think it's important to be here at Sundance to support our ASCAP members, to bring people together and inspire them as only the power of music can.”