Event Coverage
The Sundance ASCAP Music Café kicks off with performances from The Fray, John Forte, Brendan Benson and others
For the first three days of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival a major snowstorm dropped up to three feet of snow on Park City, Utah. But that didn't deter the eager crowds of filmmakers and festival-goers from streaming into the Sundance ASCAP music café, which was packed the minute the doors opened on Friday, January 22nd. Held this year in the Stansfield Art Gallery on Main Street in Park City, the music café featured an incredible array of performers, from the modern rock of The Fray to the compassionate folk of John Forte, from the blasting classic pop attack of Brendan Benson to the full-on funk, soul and R&B explosion of Adrian Younge and the Black Dynamite Sound Orchestra. Solo acoustic performances from Matt Scannell, Richard Marx, Colin Devlin and Sass Jordan riveted the attentive audiences, as did the unique a capella sounds of Sonos and the pop, rock and soul mash-up of 2am Club. As the sun finally arrived on the third day of the festival, the music café was off to a bright start.
