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, was an annual live event that showcased independent and emerging artists and hosted educational music industry panels and a tradeshow. Dfest took place the last weekend in July in the historic Blue Dome District of

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. The music conference and festival had the purpose of promoting and empowering emerging artists from around the United States. By 2008, Dfest had grown to include more than 140 bands performing on over 10 stages in

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and featuring music industry panels, clinics and a tradeshow during the days at the host conference hotel. Attendance over the two-day event in 2009, was nearly 70,000. However, the 2010 festival was cancelled.Cary Aspinwall
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Festival

The first Dfest took place in 2002. 12 local bands played for a crowd of roughly 150 people. Growing steadily each year, there were 22 showcasing acts in 2003, 65 in 2004, 96 in 2005, and 108 artists of 20 different genres playing for 16,000 fans in 2006. In 2007, the location was moved from 18th and Boston to the Blue Dome District in downtown Tulsa. This location was more conducive to the multi-venue format Dfest had evolved into. The Blue Dome District also featured a large, centrally located parking lot where

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played for more than 15,000 enthusiastic fans in 2007. All told, Dfest 2007 would feature over 130 acts on 13 stages with approximately 40,000 people attending over two days. In 2008, the festival grew even larger, featuring festival stages in the PAC parking lot where

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played to huge crowds in excess of 5,000 and the Santa Fe lot where

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played to music fans that exceeded 15,000. Overall, the 2008 event featured over 140 acts and attendance over the two-day event in excess of 60,000 festival-goers. 2009 is expected to be the best Dfest yet. Notable acts featured at Dfest have included:

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Conference

Dfest 2004, was the first year to feature music industry panels. All showcasing artists were invited to attend these panels featuring music industry professionals speaking candidly about getting ahead in the business. In 2005, panels were extended to two days, and covered a variety of topics including record deals, touring, marketing and recording. 2005 also featured guitar and bass clinics, as well as demo listening sessions. The 2006, Dfest Music Conference grew in size and scale. It moved to the Downtown

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Hotel which allowed for more room than previous locations. The keynote speaker in 2006 was Scott Booker, manager of

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, a guitar clinic by Ravi, demo listening sessions, and one-on-one artist mentoring. The conference was very well attended, with over 800 registrants. The conference continued to grow in 2007 and 2008. In 2007, the keynote speaker was Ken Abdo, of the

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was a hit and the tradeshow was home to 25 exhibitors. In 2008, the keynote speaker was

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, best known for his work in post-punk and industrial groups including Public Image Ltd., Ministry, Pigface and Killing Joke. He also wrote the indie band Bible, "Tour Smart and Break the Band." The conference host hotel also moved to the Downtown

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Hotel which added convenience being literally less than a block from the festival site in the Blue Dome District.

2011

While Dfest was put on "hiatus" for the year, organizers have not announced any plans for a return in 2011. On May 4, 2011, Cain's Ballroom announced the inaugural Brady District Block Party which will be a one-day festival featuring The Twenties,

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, and The Pretty Black Chains. The festival takes place on August 6, 2011 and is assumed to replace DFest.

2010

Dfest 2010 was originally scheduled for July 30–31, 2010, but in late May the organizers announced that the festival was on "hiatus" for the year. They cited economic problems, rising costs, and a decline in sponsorships as reasons for the cancellation.

2009

Dfest 2009 took place on July 24–25, 2009 in the Blue Dome District, Tulsa OK. Approximately 164 bands made an appearance. The First round of artists was announced at a press conference in Downtown Tulsa on April 21, 2009. Showcasing Artists Friday July 24 Other Venues IDL Ballroom: Here II Here,

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, Vangough, The Culprit, Inside Light, Exit 380 Other: X-Cal, 8bit Cynics, Sidewayz, Kawnar, Ivan Ives, SocietySociety, Navigator, Hold Em High, Canja Rave, Lynhurst, The City Lives, Negative Space, Odis, Oso Closo, Hush Hush Commotion, The Boom Bang, Stevedore, Unwed Sailor, The Burning Hotels, Callupsie, The Pretty Black Chains,

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, Ptaridactyl, The Nghiems, Tkatz & The Goods, Astellaway, The Romantic Disaster, The Blooms, GHOSTS, The Moai Broadcast, The Jonbear Fourtet, Western Heritage, Tim Miller, Ziff, Blue Island Tribe, Bald Eagle, Brine Webb, Carter Sampson, Derek Blankenship, Maggie McClure, Chris McLeod, Matt Powers, Kelsey Humphreys, Alyse Black, Van Risseghem, Ben Kilgore Saturday July 25 Other Venues IDL Ballroom: Dusty Rhodes & The River Band (2nd Show), Gringo Star, Muchos Backflips, Vandevander, Gentleman Auction House, The Calm Blue Sea Temple: DJ Bill Hamel, Turk, Demko, Derek James, Sean Kibble Dirty's Tavern: Steve Pryor, Broke City, Damn Bullets, Goodbye to Pretty, Miniver Cheevy, The Round Up Boys, Three Penny Upright Flytrap Music Hall: Sam & The Stylees, Big Red Rooster, Danny Chaimson & The 11th Hour, Peach Truck Republic, Dirtfoot, Proprietors of the Earth, People Other
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Mayola, Modern Science, Motive for Movement, My Solstice, Native Lights, Oblio, P.D.A., Paul Benjaman Band, Pico vs. Island Trees, Ptaridactyl, Recorder, Roger Jaeger, Ryan Lindsey, Scott Goldman, Spencer Sharpe, Stars Go Dim, The Dawson Project, The Fiascos, The Nightlife, The Pons, The Taking State, Velos Maretha, Welcome The Silence, Without Trees

2008

Dfest 2008 was held July 25–26, 2008 in the Blue Dome District, Tulsa OK. Showcasing Artists Friday July 25 Saturday July 26 Other Performers

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, Alex Winston, American Taxi, Angela Ortiz, Astellaway, Bait, Bangalore, Beau Jennings, BEN.BEN., Benji Kay, Black Swan, Black Wednesday, Blake-O, Blowing Trees, Born A Number, Brice Woodall, Bricolage, Callupsie, Carter Sampson, Cat-a-tac, Cavedoll, Cecada, Cheyenne, Cheryl B. Engelhardt, Chris McLeod, City Riots, Colourmusic, Congress of a Crow, Crocodile, Crooked X, Dance Robots Dance/Trash Yourself,

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, Galapogos, Ganem, Gentlemen Auction House, Ghosts, Ghost of Monkshood, Glister, Gravity Propulsion System, Greg Reichel, Hazzard, Here Is There, Hey Hollywood, Hush Hush Commotion, I Said Stop!, Jabee, Jayne Doe, Jeremy Buck & The Bang, Jesse Aycock, John Moreland & Black Gold Band, Kawnar, Kendal Dean, Klondike5, Leopold and his Fiction, Lords of the Fjords, Love In October, Mama Sweet, Mando Saenz, Matt Stansberry Band, Maxtone Four, Mayola, Miniver Cheevy, Modern Rock Diaries, Motive for Movement, My Solstice
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Recorder
Red Dirt Rangers, Ruthie Bram, Ryan Lindsey, Salute, Sam and The Stylees, Samantha Crain & The Midnight Shivers, Scott Goldman, Sherree Chamberlain, Sir Threadius Mongus, Sleeperstar, Slorder, Soulfege, Sparky Quano, Stanley Maxwell, Stars Go Dim, State Bird, Stop, Revolt, Taddy Porter, Tech Tonic, The Abdomen, The Benjamin Banneker Band, The Boxing Lesson, The Brandon Clark Band, The City Lives, The Compulsions, The Cringe, The Decomposed, The Feed, The Forms, The Heyday, The Oh! Johnny Girls, The Starkweather Boys, The Stockmarket Crash, The Twenties, The Uglysuit, Three Penny Upright, Vandevander, Vangough, Vannadine Conference Panelists *Ken Abdo, Lommen Abdo Law Firm *Stephanie Adwar, Furgang Adwar *Tom Alexander,

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Independent *Max Luces-Tucker,

Bunim/Murray Productions Bunim/Murray Productions is an entertainment production company based out of Glendale, California, and is considered a pioneer in the reality television genre. It is best known for ''The Real World'', ''Road Rules'', ''Bad Girls Club''. Mary-Ell ...

*Mollie Moore,

Atlantic Records Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson. Over its first 20 years of operation, Atlantic earned a reputation as one of the most i ...

*Shawn Murphy,

ASCAP The American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) () is an American not-for-profit performance-rights organization (PRO) that collectively licenses the public performance rights of its members' musical works to venues, broadca ...

*John Nicolson,

Hollywood Records Hollywood Records is an American record label of the Disney Music Group. The label focuses in pop, rock, alternative, hip hop, and country genres, as well as specializing in mature recordings not suitable for the flagship Walt Disney Records l ...

*Scott Perry, The New Music Tipsheet *David Ponak,

Rhino Entertainment Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978. It is currently the catalog division for Warner Music Group. Its current CEO is Mark Pinkus. History Founded in 1978, Rhino was original ...

*Eavan Porter, Nettwerk Management *David Preston, BMI *Ravi, Artist/Clinician *Steve Robertson, Atlantic Records *Joe Rudge, Search Party Music *Jeff Scheel,

Gravity Kills Gravity Kills was an American industrial rock band from St. Louis, Missouri. Their music was described by one critic as "a blending of eerie industrial rock with a pop-infused melodic chorus and a bit of hard-core head banging."Jacquie Kubin, "J ...

*Jon Schroeder, Producer / Engineer *Jack Shapira, Unison Studios *Wil Sharpe, Sharpe Entertainment Services *Madalyn Sklar, GoGirlsMusic *Robert Spinelli, Bodog Music *Ben Tedder, Drum World *David Teegarden, Producer / Engineer *Larry White, Larry White Management

2007

Dfest 2007 took place July 27–28, 2007 in the Blue Dome District, Tulsa OK. Showcasing Artists Other Acts 2AM, 3rd Flow, AbsentStar, Adam Hood, Adam Lopez Trio,

, Albert Aguilar, Ali Harter, AM, Animate Objects, Aranda, Aster, AutoVaughn, Autumn Shade, BangBangBang, Barefoot, Beau Charron, Billy Joe Winghead,

, Brandon Clark, Brandon Hart, Bryan Jewett, Carrie Webber, Casey Desmond, Catchpenny, Charlie Cheney, Charlie Scott & The Salty Dawgs, Christopher Wray Quartet, Christy Clayton, Citizen Mundi, Cody Clinton and the Bishops, Congress of a Crow, Crazy James, Crocodile, Crooked X, Dance Robots, Dance!, Dangerous Rob, Da-rel Junior, Dios (Malos), Dirtfoot, Dorian Small, Dustin Pittsley, El Paso Hot Button, Elliott the Letter Ostrich, Elza, Erin Austin, Evangelicals Fatback Circus, First Lady Assassins, Forty Minutes of Hell, Fresh Sunday, Ganem, GHOSTS, Ghost of Monkshood, Green Lemon, Hannah Blaylock & Edens Edge, HipHopotamus, Hundred Year Storm, Hush Hush, Commotion, Hymns, Indicator/Activator,

, Jacob Ide, Jessa Zapor, Jesse Aycock, Jiraff, John Hendrix, Judson Layne, KC Clifford
Kelli Lynn & The Skillet Lickers

Kevin Welch Kevin Stephen Welch (August 17, 1955) is an American country music artist. He has charted five singles on the '' Billboard'' Hot Country Songs charts and released eight studio albums. He is also one of the cofounders of the Dead Reckoning Reco ...

, Klipspringer, Kunek,

, Love in October,

Ludo Ludo (; ) is a strategy board game for two to four players, in which the players race their four from start to finish according to the rolls of a single die. Like other cross and circle games, Ludo is derived from the Indian game Pachisi. The ...

, Luma, Mayola,

, Minutes Too Far, Monta At Odds, My Dead X, My Solstice, On A Sun, Patrick Lentz, PDA, People Noise, Pike, Plague of Prophets, RadioRadio, Red City Radio, Red Headed Stepchildren, Refuje, ROOK, Ryan Lindsey, Sam and the Sylees, Seis Pistos, Sharla Pember, Sheree Chamberlain Band,

, Sho-Nuf, Soular, South 40,

, Steve Liddell Band, Stevedore Student Film, Tammany Hall Machine, Teaneck, Ten Feet Tall, The Angel/Devil, The Doldrums,

The Effects The EFFECTS (stylized as the EFFECTS) are a Washington, D.C. based math rock band consisting of Devin Ocampo, Matthew Dowling, and David Rich. They have released four digital EPs and a full-length album, ''Eyes to the Light'', on Dischord Records ...

, The Everyday People, The Feds,

, The Hard Truth, The Hero Factor,

The Ladybug Transistor The Ladybug Transistor is a Brooklyn-based indie pop group associated with The Elephant Six Collective. History Started in 1995 by Gary Olson, Edward Powers and Javier Villegas, The Ladybug Transistor released '' Marlborough Farms'' the sa ...

, The Legend of Jr. Sapp, The NON, The Pearls,

The Randies The Randies are a female-fronted punk rock band from Los Angeles, California. They have been featured in ''Blender'', as well as selected as the featured artists of the month on Fender's website. The Randies have produced two full-length albums, ...

, The Rounders, The Starkeather Boys, Starlight Mints, The Stock Market Crash, The Urban Sophisticates, The Vanished,

, Tigereye Lily, TJ McFarland, Torch, Tranny, Travis Kidd, True North Country, Upside, US Pipe & The Balls Dance Machine, Wade Burrow, Wendy Nichol, Winter Circle Conference Panelists *Ken Abdo -

Foundation *Stephanie Adwar - Attorney *Craig Alvin - Producer/Engineer *AM - Artist *Ricardo Baca - Denver Post *Trent Bell - Bell Labs *Scott Booker - Great Society/World's Fair *

Living Colour Living Colour is an American rock band from New York City, formed in 1984. The band currently consists of guitarist Vernon Reid, lead vocalist Corey Glover, drummer Will Calhoun and bassist Doug Wimbish (who replaced Muzz Skillings in 1992). S ...

*Neil Citron- Favored Nations Records *Dave Codr - The Music Phone Book *

Flaming Lips Flaming may refer to: * Anything set aflame or on fire * Flaming (Internet), the act of posting deliberately hostile messages on the Internet * Flame maple, the striped figures in maple woodwork prized for their beauty * Fläming, a region in G ...

*Brian W. Cupp - Realtor *John DeLange - Tinderbox *Damian Elahi -

/ Geffen/

*Elza - Artist *Stephen Egerton - Armstrong Recording,

The Descendents The Descendents are an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in Manhattan Beach, California, by guitarist Frank Navetta, bassist Tony Lombardo and drummer Bill Stevenson. In 1979, they enlisted Stevenson's school friend Milo Aukerman as a si ...

*Jason Feinberg - OnTarget Media *Erica Forster -

Warner Music Group Warner Music Group Corp. ( d.b.a. Warner Music Group, commonly abbreviated as WMG) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City. It is one of the " big three" recording companies and t ...

*Shane Germane -

SoundExchange SoundExchange is an American non-profit collective rights management organization founded in 2003. It is the sole organization designated by the U.S. Congress to collect and distribute digital performance royalties for sound recordings. It pays f ...

*Dameon Guess - Jakprints *Jim Halsey - The Halsey Institute *Lynn Hernandez -

KMOD-FM KMOD-FM (97.5 MHz) is a mainstream rock radio station in Tulsa, Oklahoma, owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. The station plays a wide variety of rock music from the 1960s through today. Its studios are located at the Tulsa Event Center in Southeast Tul ...

*Dave Katznelson -Birdman Records *Ryan Kuper - Boundless Entertainment
Karen Lee - Evolution Promotion
WEA, Elektra *Zac Maloy - Producer/Songwriter *Suhrid Manchanda - World's Fair *Ben McLane - Entertainment Attorney *Zach Mullinax - Variety Artists *Jeff Price - TuneCore, SpinArt Records *Brad Rains - Windswept Pacific *Ravi - Artistic Integrity *David Silbaugh - Summerfest *Jeff Smith-Crash Avenue Publicist *Brian Waymire - DreamScapers International *

- Performer/Songwriter *Larry White - Manager *Michael Wittig -

Pillar A column or pillar in architecture and structural engineering is a structural element that transmits, through compression (physical), compression, the weight of the structure above to other structural elements below. In other words, a column i ...

*Mark Wolfson - Reel Entertainment

2006

Dfest 2006 took place July 7&8, in the 18th & Boston District, Tulsa OK Showcasing Artists Adam Lopez, Addictive Behavior,

Aftereight Capital Lights was an American Christian pop rock band from Tulsa, Oklahoma. Formed in 2002 as Aftereight (stylized afterEIGHT), the band changed its name after signing to Tooth & Nail Records in 2008. The group initially disbanded in 2009, b ...

, After The Tragedy, Ali Harter, Beau Bristow,

Ben Rector Benjamin Evans Rector (born November 6, 1986) is an American singer, songwriter and record producer based in Nashville, Tennessee. He has released seven studio albums, including '' Brand New'' (2015), which peaked at No. 9 on the ''Billboard'' ...

, Brett Armstrong, Calling Matthew, Celeste, Charlie 6th Avenue, Chase Missy, Citizen Mundi, CoCo Jones, Colourmusic, Congress Of A Crow, Cottrell Gantt, Crooked X, Curtis Peoples, Damone, Deacon, DJ Demko, DJ Drumaddic, DJ Moody, DJ Robbo & Lynn K, Dolce, Down For Five,

, Ephraim, Evangelicals, Failsafe, Fighting Tomorrow, Flint Blade, Forty Minutes of Hell, Ghost of Monkshood, Glo Soul, Gooding Harmonious Monk, High Profile, Hit By A Bus, Idlefill, Ism, Jenn Franklin, Jennifer Marriott & Odd Sheep Out, Joesf Glaude, Julian B (aka Sugarloaf Watson), Katrina Parker, Klipspringer, Kristin-Allen Zito, Kunek, Malcolm Palmer, Manifest Frequency, Math Lab, Matt Stansberry Band, Meta, Minority, Minutes Too Far, MWK, My-Tea Kind, Neverset, Nick Pags, Nick Smith, Pinebox Serenade, Radiant, RadioRadio, REConcile, Red Ecco, River City Ransom, Rsun, Ryan Young, Sam & The Stylees, Seis Pistos, Shaking Tree, Shannon Thomas, Shanti, Shaolin Death Squad, Sharaab, Shawn Nelson & The Ramblers, Shonuff, Sly Dawg, Squint, Stevedore, Steve Liddell, Student Film, Sugar Free Allstars, Superstring, Temple of Heads, Theory, The Avenjahs, The Dustin Pittsley Band,

, The Ethereal Plane, The Everyday People, The Fine Lines, The Greatest Fear, The Hero Factor, The Jazzwholes, The Manic State, The Mudville Project, The Separation, The Trampolines, The Weeping Tree, TJ McFarland, Traveler, Travis Kidd, Upside, Voodoo Blue, Winter Circle. Conference Panelists *Stephanie Adwar – Furgang & Adwar, LLP *M. Sean Agnew - Blue Metallic Entertainment Group *Blake Althen - Human Factor *Joei Alvarez - Cherry Lane Publishing *Kevin Arnold -

IODA The Orchard is an American music and entertainment company, specializing in media distribution, marketing, and sales. It is a subsidiary of Sony Music, based in New York City. In 2019, the company sold off its film and television division, whic ...

*Ricardo Baca - Denver Post *Charlie Cheney - Indie Office Manager *

Neil Citron Neil Citron is a Canadian, Toronto-born guitarist, Grammy Award-winning recording engineer, and songwriter who played with the California-based rock bands Hero and Lana Lane as well as briefly with heavy metal band Quiet Riot in 2006, among num ...

- Favored Nations Records *David Codr - Independent Artist Registry/The Music Phone Book *David Cool - Stand Alone Records *Terry Coughlin - hardcoremarketing.com *Jon DeLange - Tinderbox Music *

Stephen Egerton Stephen Egerton may refer to: * Stephen Egerton (priest) (1555?–1621?), English clergyman * Stephen Egerton (diplomat) (1932–2006), British Ambassador to Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Italy *Stephen Egerton (guitarist) Stephen Patrick O'Reilly (bor ...

- Armstrong Recording,

*Matt Fecher - South Park Music Festival *Jason Feinberg - On Target Media * Rory Felton -

The Militia Group The Militia Group is an independent record company based in Long Beach, California. History The Militia Group was founded in 1998 by Chad Pearson as a booking agency, booking for artists such as Slick Shoes, Craig's Brother, Dogwood, twothirtyei ...

*Shane German - SoundExchange *Suzanne Glass - Indie-Music.com *Maria Gonzales -

*Bryce Graves - Groupietunes *

Jim Halsey Jim Halsey is an American artist manager, agent and impresario. He and his staff have guided, promoted or managed the careers of numerous prominent U.S. entertainers - particularly country music stars - including 29 inductees of the Country Musi ...

- Halsey Learning Center *Dirk Hemsath -

Doghouse Records Doghouse Records is an American record label currently based in New York City.Alan O'Connor, ''Punk Record Labels and the Struggle for Autonomy''. Lexington Books, 2008, p. 41Google Books/ref> The company was founded by Dirk Hemsath in late 1987 ...

*Ronnie Hylton - First Born Productions *Ryan Kuper - Redemption Recordings, Boundless Entertainment *Panos Panay - SonicBids *Jeff Price -

spinART Records SpinART Records was a New York City-based independent record label that released recordings by The Apples in Stereo, Clem Snide, Frank Black, and Michael Penn. The label was started by Joel Morowitz and Jeff Price in 1991. SpinART filed for bankr ...

TuneCore TuneCore is a Brooklyn, New York–based independent digital music distribution, publishing and licensing service founded in 2005. TuneCore principally offers musicians and other rights-holders the opportunity to distribute and sell or stream the ...

*Ravi - Artistic Integrity *Dave Richards -

Clickpop Records Clickpop Records is an independent record label in Bellingham, Washington that releases music predominantly from the Pacific Northwest. Bands who have achieved this goal to some degree include Idiot Pilot (who signed with Reprise Records shortly ...

*Doug Roberts -

Apple An apple is an edible fruit produced by an apple tree (''Malus domestica''). Apple fruit tree, trees are agriculture, cultivated worldwide and are the most widely grown species in the genus ''Malus''. The tree originated in Central Asia, wh ...

*Jeff Scheel -

* Daylle Deanna Schwartz - Author *Allison Shaw - Hyperactive Music Magazine *

- Bass clinician *Neil Sheehan - hardcoremarketing.com, Rust Records *Madalyn Sklar - GoGirlsMusic.com *Bubba Turner - Headliner Artists *Paul Turpin -

*Brian Waymire - Dreamscapers International * Brooke Wentz - The Rights Workshop *Ryan Williams - Author *Mark Wolfson - Playtone Records *Billy Zero -

XM Satellite Radio XM Satellite Radio (XM) was one of the three satellite radio (SDARS) and online radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Holdings. It provided pay-for-service radio, analogous to subscription cable television. Its s ...

2003

There were twenty-two bands showcased in 2003. Some of the twenty-two bands included in the 2003 showcase included Pinkard and Ultrafix on both indoor and outdoor stages in Tulsa's Art District.

2002

Dfest 2002 took place in July in Tulsa OK. It was founded by TJ Green and Angie Devore-Green of the band Ultrafix. The show was originally planned to be on an outside stage behind a local bar, but due to a thunderstorm and fear of equipment at risk of being damaged from the water, the show moved inside the bar changing it from an all ages event to 21+. Showcasing Artists Though incomplete, some of the original twelve bands booked for the first DFest are as follows: Strüb, Ultrafix.

References

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External links

Official Dfest WebsiteDfest MySpaceInterview in Electronic Musician with Angie Devore-Green