"... ubiquitous presence and articulate advocacy."
- Austin American-Statesman
2010 Out and About
500: Music

Austin American-Statesman
2009 Fortunate 500: Music

Dean Lofton | Create Your Badge

WELCOME

Welcome and thanks for visiting! I'm a writer, publicist and jazz promoter based in Austin, Texas. My publication credits include daily papers, alt weeklies, magazines and websites. Using my 15 years of experience in advertising and marketing, I promote businesses, non-profits and artists who inspire me and make the world a better place
- and I have fun doing it.
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NEWS:

~ Read my Dean Lofton PR blog for more client news.

~ A summer night class of Writing Your Life as a Woman meets on Tuesdays.

~ My client (and husband) jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton won the Austin Chronicle Readers Poll for Best Jazz Band at the Austin Music Awards during SXSW. Congrats to him and the many talented local jazz musicians in his bands!

~ Dean Lofton PR is now producing and sponsoring
Momo's Jazz Happy Hour on Tuesdays and Thursdays

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~ Writing Your Life as a Woman is a community writing workshop I've led for thirteen years where women put pen to paper and ponder their lives.

~ My husband, jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton, and I were featured in the Austin American-Statesman's Out and About 500 in the music category.

 

~ Jeff Lofton (right) was featured in a cover story in the Austin Chronicle and in a feature story in the Austin American-Statesman.

 

 

 

 

 

~ My client, jazz pianist
Marc Devine,
was featured in a
New York Magazine article
"New Arrivals."

 

 

 

~ Jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton was ranked in the Austin Chronicle's Top 9 Austin Albums of 2009, and KUT's Top 10 Albums of 2009: DJ PIcks. Listen to some tracks at JeffLofton.com and see why the Austin American-Statesman said in his 1/15/09 interview:

"An aside for his musical peers: Lofton's site — jefflofton.com —
is one of the cleanest, most informative Web presences I've ever seen for a local musician; his example is to be followed."

 

 

 

Thanks to the talented team I work with - web designer/graphic designer Toni Turbeville, graphic designer Stephen Brogdon, and photographer Dwayne Hills.

 

BIOGRAPHY
Personal
I relocated to Austin, Texas, in 2007 from Columbia, South Carolina, with my husband, jazz trumpeter Jeff Lofton, and I’m the lucky step-mother to 9-year-old Shana.