It’s onerous to think about an event that may make Sara Bareilles nervous, contemplating that the Grammy Award winner is a veteran of phases far and extensive. However Friday night time’s Celebrating Sundance Institute fundraiser at Park Metropolis’s Grand Hyatt Deer Valley proved to be such an occasion.
Upon taking her place within the ballroom lights to shut out the starry occasion, Bareilles admitted that it was the “fancy room” that despatched her nerves into overdrive. The fundraiser noticed an extended record of honorees and presenters take the stage together with A Full Unknown filmmaker James Mangold, Depraved star Cynthia Erivo, Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter, Glenn Shut, Joel Edgerton, Marielle Heller, R.J. Cutler and Tessa Thompson. Visitors making the rounds included Jon Hamm, Boots Riley, Kimberly Peirce, Roger Ross Williams and extra.
Or possibly it was as a result of the movie that introduced her to Sundance this 12 months means a lot to her. Bareilles is an government producer of Ryan White‘s new documentary Come See Me within the Good Mild, which follows two poets, Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley, as they face down an unexpectedly humorous and poignant journey by love, life and mortality when one in every of them is identified with incurable most cancers.
Bareilles co-wrote a monitor for the movie, “Salt Then Bitter Then Candy,” with Andrea Gibson and Brandi Carlile. And she or he turned as much as provide the world premiere efficiency as a part of a two-song set to shut the occasion. The set additionally additionally included “She Used to Be Mine,” the hit track from her Broadway musical Waitress.
See clips of each performances under.
