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A segment covering Dave's untimely death, the reaction of family friends and the community from Snap Judgment's Counted: An Oakland Story which chronicled some of the many lost to violence in Oakland during 2017.

She dedicated "Dorian" to the late Dave Deporis.

A full-length audio documentary about Dave's life and music featuring interviews with his parents Stella Deporis and Gene Deporis, songwriters Peter Himmelman and Diane Cluck, and Dave himself in a 2005 Spinning On Air radio interview, as well as several songs and excerpts showing the music’s power and inventiveness.

A few months after her mother died, Lam suffered another death, of a dear friend, the only musician she considered a natural peer, the California singer Dave Deporis.

Well-known musician who died after being dragged, robbed in Oakland identified

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She mentions Dave Deporis, the musician who was tragically killed in Oakland, whom she had met previously.

According to friends, Deporis' music -- including his most recent recordings from a New York studio session -- was on his laptop. A thief snatched the computer from a cafe table where Deporis was working near 42nd and Telegraph Avenue in Oakland.

Ο μουσικός από το Oakland, Dave Deporis, πέθανε την Τετάρτη 9 Αυγούστου, αφού ληστεύτηκε και σύρθηκε πίσω από ένα αυτοκίνητο

a handmade zine to remember a friend, Dave Deporis, a beautiful friend, an amazing songwriter, a loving person and someone who was principled, oriented toward peace and justice.

Friends and family want to publish Deporis' unreleased music, and have launched a GoFundMe page to help pay for the project.

New York unknown, Deporis, opens this lilting melody with his unusual phrasing and understated acoustic picking...

The calls and text messages came flooding into Gene DePoris’ cell phone last week. It was late in Sri Lanka, where he was on a trip, when another call came. This one he answered.

Dave Deporis died on Wednesday (August 9) after being robbed and dragged behind a car.

The story of Dave Deporis was much like that of the countless other singer-songwriters that live in this world... They live for their songs.

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Deporis's music is a treasure, buried away from deserving ears, from unknowing ears, but it merits, if not desires, an audience. A voice which does not overpower, nor take the breath away, but commands attention with it's presence. The man, like his music, is vaguely mysterious and although I posed him a series of questions I have not solved the mystery, just made it more tantalizing.

Oakland musician Dave Deporis, 40, was tragically killed on Wednesday (Aug. 9) afternoon while pursuing a thief who stole his computer

Giuseppe Spadafora opened a side door of his white Ford bus, spread a light blue carpet on a sidewalk near McCarren Park in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and placed a small wooden sandwich board next to it reading “Free Tea.”

"There’s music that comes from the unknown. Music with a strangeness that is at first both annoying and arresting, music with a depth which proves that it issues from the mind of someone who has known pain and hope and unthinkable sorrow — someone, in other words, who knows a bit about life, and not from the outside, but from the core.
Dave is that musician.”

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Anohni, Regina Spektor, more honor the late singer, who died after being dragged behind a car