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Joel Mabus on Tour 
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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