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Show The Park Record L I F E U N C O R K E D C-2 Wed/Thurs/Fri, January 27-29, 2016 ASCAP Café continues its offerings Pa RK CITY Pa RK CITY COURTESY OF ASCAP PARK CITY HAS A WINERY? Shocking, true & exceptional. Savor wines born of prestigious Napa and Sonoma appellations, barreled and bottled right here in Park City. Available in 40+ top local restaurants and at Cognition Winery. Tastings & Tours | Purchase | Event Space CognitionWinery.com or 435-640-3206 The ASCAP Music Café has already presented some impressive acts during the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Performances by Sting and Yoshiki have enthralled so far, but there is more to come. On Wednesday, Jan. 27, and Thursday, Jan. 28, the venue, located at the Rich Haines Gallery, 625 Main St., will feature a Bluebird Café Songwriters Round with Chris DeStefano, Ashley Gorley and Josh Osborne. Then, on Thursday, Jan. 28, and Friday, Jan. 29, Other Lives will be among the artists who will showcase their works. Nashville-based songwriter Ashley Gorley will perform with fellow songwriters Josh Osborne and Chris DeStafano and represent the Bluebird Café at the ASCAP Music Café. COURTESY OF ASCAP Oklahoma's Other Lives, featuring Jesse Tabish, center, is on a quest to blend pop music with orchestral compositions. Jesse Tabish of Other Lives feels lucky to play music By SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record Local Knowledge Dedicated Integrity Luxury Homes • Condos • Residential Investment Properties • Listing Package Steve Gold 435.659.5868 Kristin Egan 435.714.1067 Steve@ParkCityRealtyGroup.com Kristin@ParkCityRealtyGroup.com Park City Realty is locally owned Want the results of a recent competition or updated standings? Don't worry, The Park Record always keeps score. See our Scoreboard on page B-5. Jesse Tabish, lead singer, guitarist and main songwriter for Other Lives, said the ASCAP Music Café will be a new experience. "We've never done anything like this before," Tabish said during a telephone call from the band's stop in Portland, Oregon, last week. "I feel really happy to do this, because we're always happy to go out and play our tunes for folks. He's also looking forward to attending Sundance. "I've never been there before," he said. "Hopefully, we'll be able to catch a few movies." Other Lives, which hails from Stillwater, Oklahoma, has been playing music together for more than 13 years. The core group -- Tabish, pianist/guitarist/prcussionist and trumpeter Jonathon Mooney and bassist Josh Onstott -- recently welcomed drummer Danny Reisch and violinist/guitarist Daniel Hart into the fold, according to ASCAP.com. "We started as an instrumental band," Tabish said. "Through the years, with each record, we've had different goals, aspirations and sounds." The band boasts 10 releases, including extended plays, vinyl, albums and two-track promos, but at the fundamental level of it all, the band continues it's goal of merging composed music into pop tunes, Tabish said. "I don't know if we've succeeded or not, but we're going to keep on trying," he said with a laugh. Last year's full-length release, "Rituals," is the culmination of that journey. "It was a gathering of all the influences and kinds of sounds and experimentations over the years," Tabish said. "The album ranges from folk songs and then looking towards the future with the hybrid sound of orchestral music and vast percussion spread sporadically throughout. And I think that kind of came together on one big record for us." Diversity in music has always been part of Tabish life since he was a child. "My mother was a piano teacher, so I grew up with a lot of classical music," he said. "The next big thing, as it is for so many kids now and back then, happened to me when I first heard Nirvana. That's when I started playing the guitar." Tabish also started writing his own songs and forming bands. "I was 11 or 12 at that time," he said. Later on, he discovered the Please see Tabish, C-4 Gorley honored to represent Bluebird Café at Sundance By SCOTT IWASAKI The Park Record When songwriter Ashley Gorley performs at the ASCAP Music Café, he won't be playing alone. Fellow songwriters Josh Osborne and Chris DeStefano will join him. "The performance is called the Bluebird Café songwriter's round," Gorley said during a telephone interview from Nashville, Tennessee. "So, if there are 12 songs and three writers, we'll do a total of four songs each, but I'll do one and the next person will do one and the other and then it will come back to me." The segment is named after Nashville's famed Bluebird Café, which has become an important venue in Music City, U.S.A. "The Bluebird has been glorified on the TV show ‘Nashville' and with the shows we have all played there coming up as songwriters," Gorley said. "Every time we play there is sold out and people are even asking the Bluebird to set up performances for corporate events and private parties." That's good because the songwriters who have written hits for everyone from George Strait to Luke Bryan to Reba McEntire Please see Gorley, C-4 |