{"id":470931,"date":"2026-10-19T22:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470931\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:12:08","slug":"halloween-festival-brings-house-and-techno-djs-to-dallas-arts-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/470931\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween festival brings house and techno DJs to Dallas Arts District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a fun way to spend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/halloween\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Halloween<\/a> that&#8217;s not a haunted house or trick-or-treating, Strauss Square at the AT&amp;T Performing Arts Center will be transformed into a house and techno music festival. Drifted Fest 2026 will take place on Oct. 31 from 1 to 11 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The inaugural Drifted Fest took place in June 2025 at The Shack at Panther Island Pavilion in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/topic\/fort-worth\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Worth<\/a>. The festival was presented by Techno Ka House, a Dallas-based house and techno music community and event organizer. At the event, attendees got to listen to six international DJs and 45 local DJs at a silent disco.<\/p>\n<p>On Halloween, there will be three different environments at Strauss Square throughout the day, including the Main Stage, Techno Bunker and Silent Disco. This will give attendees the opportunity to move between sounds and styles before the entire festival comes together for the closing performance.<\/p>\n<p>The lineup will feature 60 local DJs playing and six international DJs. The headliners on the Main Stage include Bart Skils, Moguai, Moritz Hofbauer, Oscar L, Wave Wave, John Wayne, Willie Trimmer, Project Ka and Charles B performing with a live orchestra to end the night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>John Wayne, event manager for Drifted Fest, said Charles B is &#8220;really viral and known for classical music remixed to\u00a0techno, and he brings out a 16-piece live orchestra with a dozen choir singers when he performs. This is the first time that he&#8217;ll ever perform live with an orchestra here in America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There will also be a raw industrial sub-bass vault at the Techno Bunker and a three-channel silent disco with interactive wireless DJ battles. Bar service will be available for attendees 21 and up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are four pass types, including general admission, GA+ (the experience club), VIP with elevated view deck and private lounge, and a VIP+ all-access, which lets attendees be on the direct stage wings and artist hospitality deck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oct. 31 from 1 to 11 p.m. at Strauss Square at the AT&amp;T Performing Arts Center, 2403 Flora St., Dallas. Tickets start at $76.74. The event is for people 18 and up.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.driftedfest.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">driftedfest.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you&#8217;re looking for a fun way to spend Halloween that&#8217;s not a haunted house or trick-or-treating, Strauss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,88574,93542,87998,157622,88950],"class_list":["post-470931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-downtown-dallas","tag-tp-performing-arts","tag-tp-dallas","tag-tp-halloween","tag-tp-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}