Carol Marvin has achieved successful results formerly
unheard of in the festival production and music industries.

Founder of the DEMF – the largest electronic music festival ever held worldwide – and its brand, Ms. Marvin has led her production to make music history on a number of levels. She launched her festival in 2000 to an unprecedented success including 1 million in attendance from the world over and a documented $94.7 million in direct economic impact into the event’s first host city and region, Metro Detroit. Her exceptional events have been recognized in media internationally, earning acclaim for the world-class production values and innovative presentation features of each production. Civic leaders and publications throughout the globe have hailed her festivals as safe, professionally managed, artistic, and groundbreaking.

Ms. Marvin’s DEMF and her efforts have been honored in a variety of ways. Her contributions to electronic music history in Detroit – including the DEMF and The World Party (the DEMF’s predecessor) – were showcased in a recent multi-media exhibit at the Detroit Historical Museum. This exhibition was the largest attended in museum history. She has also received tributes from the Michigan State Congress honoring her historic accomplishments with respect to her DEMF launch and production, which the state has entered into its historical records through an act of Congress in the summer of 2002.

Although the DEMF is her most significant global entertainment achievement, Ms. Marvin has been recognized for her successful and memorable productions in the areas of art, music and fashion for almost two decades. Recently in August 2007, she launched another completely original production – CLOVER: The Christian Dance Music Festival – which is the largest such event held worldwide, receiving great praise from festival artists, sponsors and fans alike for its positive spin and life-inspiring presentation. Previously, for 7 years from 1994 – 2000, she was one of the directors of the Detroit International Jazz Festival (formerly the Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival.) As its Director of Corporate Sponsorship, she generated the base of festival funding from which this – the largest free-of-charge jazz festival in the world – operated, and developed major components of the event which helped ensure that the property was attractive to top national brands. During her tenure, the festival fiscal bottom-line went from red to black, a great first-time accomplishment for an event almost a quarter of a century in existence. She has also produced many smaller, yet award-winning concert and fashion events. Additionally, Ms. Marvin launched an arts center named Urban Park in the early 1990’s and presently she has been assisting her business partner, Tom Thewes, with the operation of his nationally acclaimed and award winning art gallery, ©POP. Ms. Marvin also has four children, teaches 5th grade religious classes and is a native of metro Detroit.

• 2006 CLOVER: The Christian Dance Music Festival, Founder, Executive Producer & Director
• 2002 Detroit Electronic Music Festival*, Founder, Executive Producer & Director
• 2001 Detroit Electronic Music Festival*, Founder, Executive Producer & Director
• 2000 Detroit Electronic Music Festival*, Founder, Executive Producer & Director
• 2000 Ford Detroit International Jazz Festival*, Director of Corporate Sponsorship
• 1999 Ford Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival*, Director of Corporate Sponsorship
• 1998 Ford Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival*, Director of Corporate Sponsorship
• 1998 Ann Arbor Art Fairs, Director of Corporate Sponsorship
• 1997 Ford Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival*, Director of Corporate Sponsorship
• 1996 Ford Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival*, Director of Corporate Sponsorship
• 1995 Ford Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival*, Director of Corporate Sponsorship
• 1994 Montreux Detroit Jazz Festival*, Director of Corporate Sponsorship
• 1993 Michigan State Fair*, Director of Marketing & Public Relations, Select Fair Event Producer

On May 24, 2002, Carol Marvin received a Congressional Tribute from the State of Michigan in recognition of her efforts with the Detroit Electronic Music Festival.