ASCAP’s Sundance Music Café Returns Virtually With Brandy Clark, Este Haim, More

ASCAP’s 24th annual Sundance Music Café will return in virtual form for a second year this year from Jan. 21-24 on the festival’s online platform, beginning each day at 4 p.m. CT. The Café will feature special performances and interviews with ASCAP songwriter and composer members throughout the event.

Artists performing this year include Grammy nominee Brandy Clark; singer-songwriter and co-founder of LA punk band X, John Doe; award-winning actor/singer Evan Rachel Wood and Grammy-nominated guitarist/singer-songwriter Zane Carney as Evan + Zane; singer-songwriter and actress Hayley Sales; emerging R&B singer-songwriter Jordan Hawkins; and Zimbabwean-American singer-songwriter and record producer Shungudzo.

On Jan. 23 and 24, viewers can tune in for special ASCAP Screen Time conversations with top ASCAP composers and their collaborators. The ongoing interview series will host conversations with Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power composer Sharon Farber and the film’s director Nina Menkes; Neptune Frost co-director/composer/screenwriter Saul Williams and co-director Anisia Uzeyman; Call Jane composer Isabella “The Machine” Summers and the film’s director Phyllis Nagy; and Cha Cha Real Smooth composers Este Haim (of HAIM) and Christopher Stracey.

“Our long partnership with the Sundance Film Festival continues its mission to showcase the magical relationship between music and film,” says Loretta Muñoz, ASCAP AVP, Membership. “Every year, we highlight some of our talented ASCAP members and create those special connections for songwriters, composers and filmmakers. Whether in-person or virtual, we offer an intimate space for the discovery of captivating performances and conversations with creators whose music resonates with the Sundance Film Festival audience and beyond.”

To view a complete schedule of performances and for more information, click here.