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Sara Bareilles attends the Sundance Film Festival gala fundraiser on Jan. 24, 2025. (Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images) It’s hard to imagine an occasion that would make Sara Bareilles nervous, considering that the Grammy Award winner is a veteran of stages far and wide. But Friday night’s Celebrating Sundance Institute fundraiser at Park City’s Grand Hyatt Deer Valley proved to be such an event. Upon taking her place in the ballroom lights to close out the starry event, Bareilles admitted that it was the “fancy room” that sent her nerves into overdrive. The fundraiser saw a long list of honorees and presenters take the stage including A Complete Unknown filmmaker James Mangold, Wicked star Cynthia Erivo, Sundance Institute’s Michelle Satter, Glenn Close, Joel Edgerton, Marielle Heller, R.J. Cutler and Tessa Thompson. Guests making the rounds included Jon Hamm, Boots Riley, Kimberly Peirce, Roger Ross Williams and more. Heidi Gardner, William H. Macy to Star in Dramedy 'The Swimming Lesson' (Exclusive) Or maybe it was because the film that brought her to Sundance this year means so much to her. Bareilles is an executive producer of Ryan White ‘s new documentary Come See Me in the Good Light , which follows two poets, Andrea Gibson and Megan Falley, as they face down an unexpectedly funny and poignant journey through love, life and mortality when one of them is diagnosed with incurable cancer. Bareilles co-wrote a track for the film, “Salt Then Sour Then Sweet,” with Andrea Gibson and Brandi Carlile . And she turned up to offer the world premiere performance as part of a two-song set to close the event. The set also also included “She Used to Be Mine,” the hit song from her Broadway musical Waitress . At the Sundance Institute gala tonight Sara Bareilles closed the show with a world premiere performance of “Salt Then Sour Then Sweet.” The track is featured in the doc Come See Me in the Good Light, a fest selection, and she wrote it with Andrea Gibson and thee Brandi Carlile.… pic.twitter.com/KhlaDezgkH Sara Bareilles then closes the two song set with “She Used to Be Mine,” her hit song from her hit Broadway musical Waitress. pic.twitter.com/uEM82AVjFR Washington, D.C. Now Has the Strictest Anti-Scalping Ticketing Policy in the Country Your data can be used to monitor for and prevent unusual and possibly fraudulent activity (for example, regarding advertising, ad clicks by bots), and ensure systems and processes work properly and securely. It can also be used to correct any problems you, the publisher or the advertiser may encounter in the delivery of content and ads and in your interaction with them. The choices you make regarding the purposes and entities listed in this notice are saved and made available to those entities in the form of digital signals (such as a string of characters). This is necessary in order to enable both this service and those entities to respect such choices. Your device might be distinguished from other devices based on information it automatically sends when accessing the Internet (for instance, the IP address of your Internet connection or the type of browser you are using) in support of the purposes exposed in this notice. Information regarding which content is presented to you and how you interact with it can be used to determine whether the (non-advertising) content e.g. reached its intended audience and matched your interests. For instance, whether you read an article, watch a video, listen to a podcast or look at a product description, how long you spent on this service and the web pages you visit etc. This is very helpful to understand the relevance of (non-advertising) content that is shown to you. Information about your activity on this service, such as your interaction with ads or content, can be very helpful to improve products and services and to build new products and services based on user interactions, the type of audience, etc. This specific purpose does not include th