Marc Rebillet Announced as Jambaloo Music Prize Headliner

Marc Rebillet, AKA Loop Daddy, AKA a viral sensation many times over, is returning to Dallas for one night in June. The artist, who gained fame for posting wild, improvised songs and then solidified his career as a legitimately respectable electronic musician, is coming back to perform at the Jambaloo Music Prize celebration at the Longhorn Ballroom on June 6. 

The show is part of the free music festival’s fan-vote competition that awards a $20,000 cash prize and a recording deal to a local artist who has released an album in the last year. Submissions for the prize have closed, but voting opens today. 

The three finalists will perform as openers, with the winner announced right before Rebillet’s set begins. 

“This is exactly the kind of full-circle moment JAMBALOO was built to create,” said Joe Morrison, co-founder of Jambaloo, in a press release. “When a community invests in its music ecosystem — its schools, its venues, its artists — that investment compounds over time. Marc’s return to headline and reinvest in Dallas is a powerful example of that cycle in action.”

All proceeds from the show will go to Amplified Minds, a non-profit dedicated to providing mental health resources for local musicians, and the advisory board for the Booker T. Washington School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Rebillet himself is an alum of the premier school for the artistically inclined. 

Since performing his first live stage show in Deep Ellum in 2017, Rebillet has launched a successful international touring career. But his return to Dallas is as much for pleasure as it is purpose, and is less about his show as it is about giving back to the local music scene. 

The festival, produced by the Mullen and Mullen Music Project, a limb of a local injury law firm, has grown in size in only its second year. After wrapping in mid-February, Jambaloo drew 8,200 attendees across 15 venues, generating an estimated $5 million in economic impact and raising more than $30,000 for local partners. This is the first year the music prize is being awarded — a testament to the growing footprint the festival has embedded in North Texas.

Tickets for the Jambaloo Music Prize Celebration on June 6 at the Longhorn Ballroom are available now $35.