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- ↑ LDS Music World http://www.ldsmusicworld.com/artists/sunfall_festival.html
- ↑ Sunfall Festival http://www.sunfallfestival.com/
- ↑ BYU Magazine Fall 2001 http://magazine.byu.edu/?act=view&a=759
- ↑ GarageBand.com http://www.garageband.com/winners
- ↑ Sunfall Festival http://www.sunfallfestival.com/ Salt Lake City Weekly http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-2651-choose-the-rock.html
- ↑ Salt Lake City Weekly http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/article-2651-choose-the-rock.html
- ↑ Sunfall Festival http://www.sunfallfestival.com/news/index.shtml
- ↑ NPR https://www.npr.org/2006/06/20/5458011/sunfall-festival-i-walked-away
- ↑ Sunfall Festival http://www.sunfallfestival.com/23b/index.shtml
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