This page last updated: March 13, 2025
SELECTED PAST APPEARANCES ( FOR MORE CLICK
HERE)
MIDWINTER SINGING FESTIVAL
-- East Lansing, MI
THE ARK -- Ann Arbor MI
HIAWATHA MUSIC FESTIVAL -- Marquette, MI A
PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION --St. Paul, MN
WFMT FOLKSTAGE -- Chicago
FOX VALLEY FOLK FESTIVAL -- Geneva, IL
THE TEN POUND FIDDLE -- East Lansing, MI PRINCETON FOLK MUSIC SOCIETY -- Princeton, NJ
CORNELL FOLK SONG SOCIETY -- Ithaca, NY MIGHTY UKE DAY -- Lansing, MI
SUMMER ACOUSTIC MUSIC WEEK of
UMASS BIG MUDDY FOLK FESTIVAL -- Boonville, MO
WALNUT VALLEY FESTIVAL -- WINFIELD,
KS OLD SONGS FESTIVAL -- Altamont, NY
SCHOODIC ARTS FESTIVAL -- Winter Harbor, ME PHILADELPHIA
FOLK FESTIVAL -- Schwenksville, PA
MAMA'S COFFEEHOUSE -- Bloomfield Hills, MI
FOLK COLLEGE -- Huntingdon, PA
LAMB'S RETREAT for SONGWRITERS -- Harbor Springs, MI
BLISS FEST -- Harbor Springs, MI
CALIFORNIA COAST MUSIC CAMP -- northern CA
MIDWEST BANJO CAMP -- Olivet, MI
WOODS HOLE FOLK SOCIETY -- Woods Hole, MA
VANCOUVER FOLK FESTIVAL -- Vancouver, BC
THE
COVID-19 PANDEMIC. HINDSIGHT IS 2020!
If you have been wondering
what Joel Mabus did during the pandemic (aka the Great Unpleasantness) here is
what I did instead of touring: Here
is a direct link to my YouTube Channel
UPCOMING:
2025
SATURDAY MAR 22 KALMAZOO
MI KALAMAZOO KVCC MUSEUM downtown
20th KALAMAZOO FRETBOARD FESTIVAL
10AM-6:30PM FREE!
This year the festival features the mandolin. So I will be giving a
1-hour mandolin workshop at 1pm. All levels, all the basics and all
questions answered. I'll do a 1 hour concert in the Stryker Theater
at 4pm -- the concert is not all-mandolin ;)
https://kalamazoomuseum.org/events/fretboard-festival/20th-annual-kalamazoo-fretboard-festival
SATURDAY MAR 29 ALLEGAN MI
Allegan Folklife Music & Art Festival
2025 10AM-8PM
Allegan High School / arts center
1560 M-40 North
info: folklifeinallegan@aol.com
No concert from me, but I'll be giving a banjo workshop at noon:
12:00 – 1:00: Clawhammer Banjo Workshop with Joel Mabus, Room #1
SATURDAY
APRIL 12 EAST LANSING MI
TEN POUND FIDDLE 50th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION -- ALL DAY
In 1975 I was the second concert at the new thing called The Ten Pound
Fiddle. Fifty years later there
is a grand celebration of a half-century of folk music history. It will be
quite the GALA
I will be performing a bit, and workshopping too.
w/ Sally Rogers, Kitty Donohoe, Matt Watroba, Rev. Robert Jones, Ukulele Kings
& many more
https://www.tenpoundfiddle.org/event/50th-anniversary-celebration-all-day-party/
THURSDAY MAY 15 GRAND HAVEN MI
CHURCH OF THE DUNES EVENING CONCERT 7pm
717 Sheldon Road Grand Haven, MI 49417
616-842-7980 office@umcdunes.org
https://umcdunes.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/upcoming-concerts-2025.pdf
FRI-SUN SEPTEMBER 5-7 REMUS MI
WHEATLAND MUSIC FESTIVAL
details TBA
https://www.wheatlandmusic.org/
FRIDAY
OCTOBER 3 EAST LANSING MI
TEN POUND FIDDLE CONCERT and evening w/Joel Mabus
details TBA
https://www.tenpoundfiddle.org/
NOVEMBER
7-9 EAST TROY WI
MOO MUSIC GATHERING aka "Make Our Own Music Gathering"
Camp Edwards details TBA
https://www.moomusic.org/calendar