Joel Mabus on Tour
This page last updated: June 05, 2014
(For selected past appearances, click HERE)
2014
JUNE 14, Saturday, Circle Pines Camp, Yankee Springs Area,
MI
As part of the annual Buttermilk Jamboree, I will again this year be part of
the Big Bill Broonzey tribute, this year on Saturday at 3:30. The festival
runs all weekend, and tickets vary accordingly -- campgrounds available.
This is a late add for me, so I'm not on the posters, etc. and will not be doing
a show on my own this year, just part of the BBB tribute and round robin, with
Ralston Bowles, Rev. Robert Jones, and others. http://www.buttermilkjamboree.org/
JUNE 20, Friday, Brooklyn MI (Jackson area)
Free concert as part of the "Arts in the Park" series. Bring your
own lawn chair. In the small town of Brooklyn Michigan (east of Jackson,
towards the Irish Hills) In Swain Memorial Park, located just behind the
Brooklyn Ford car dealership. Use Google Maps. Starts at 7 pm and
ends before sunset, about 9 or so. No rain dates. Did I mention it was free?
JULY 12, Saturday, Milwaukee
WI
I'll be doing a house concert in M'waukee and also a workshop/master class.
Private home, but contact ME: so you can attend either or both on Saturday evening for the
concert. Saturday day afternoon for the workshop. (Yes, this is the old
Stringalong Gang)
• SATURDAY CONCERT, JULY 12, 2014: 7:30 pm, $18/person. Doors open 7
pm.
• SAT. MASTER CLASS, JULY 12 (Fingerstyle & Flatpick Guitar):
1:30 – 3:30 pm, $50/person. Intermediate – Adv. players. With more than 40
years experience teaching guitar, Joel will share Tips, Techniques & Tricks
of the Trade, like getting the best tone from your guitar, easy chord
substitutions, how to make your singing sound better by arranging your guitar
accompaniment, guitar intros and exits and a Q&A session. Music reading not
necessary.
RESERVATIONS REQUIRED! Again, contact me by email joel.mabus@pobox.com
for information and I will send you the flyer with all the details and how to
reserve a spot. It is a nice house, with friendly folks. I am looking forward to
the whole day.
JULY 18-20 All Weekend, Marquette MI
Hiawatha Music Festival. My band The String Doctors (Ray Kamalay,
guitar & Dave Rosin, bass) with special guest
doctor, David Mosher on fiddle, will play the swing dance on Friday night,
concerts on main stage Saturday, and Sunday. http://hiawathamusic.org/
JULY 23, Wednesday, Roscommon, MI
String Doctors Concert free show, bring lawn chairs details TBA
JULY 24, Thursday, Holt, MI
String Doctors Concert free show, bring lawn chairs details TBA
JULY 27, Sunday, Ann Arbor MI
A evening concert at the Ark, 7:30 -- it has been a while since I've done a 2
set show at the Ark, one of my favorite listening rooms in the country. Be
there or be square -- er, A square. http://www.theark.org/
AUGUST
21, Thursday Cheboygan, MI
7 pm concert in Festival Square downtown with the String Doctors. Contact
Cheboygan Downtown Development Authority for details. A new outdoor concert
space in lovely Cheboygan. Free show!
AUG 31, SEPT 1 Sun-Mon Labor Day Weekend, Geneva IL
Fox Valley Folk Festival, details TBA
OCT 10, Friday, East Lansing, MI
Concert at Ten Pound Fiddle Coffeehouse, details TBA
NOVEMBER 8, Saturday, East Troy, WI
MOO (Make Our Own) Music Gathering http://www.moomusic.org/events
at Camp Edwards in East Troy. This is the successor to the classic
Stringalong Weekends, in the old location. I will be teaching 2 guitar
worshhops, one on "exploring the blues" and one on "secret life
of chords" and doing a short mini concert. All daytime events. The
other featured instructor will be my friend Mark Dvorak.
NOVEMBER
9, Sunday, Crystal Falls, MI
Back again at the "Second Sunday Folk Dance" concert and dance at The
Fortune Lake Camp (Lutheran, but not a church function) about 2 miles west of
Crystal Falls. 4 pm CENTRAL time. Lovely community event (everybody
welcome!) hosted by my dear friends, Bette and Dean Premo, of the Whitewater
Band. A short welcoming set from Whitewater, a concert set from me,
followed by refreshments and a community contra/old-time dance. In their 30th
season! http://secondsundayfolkdance.com/
NOV 21, Friday, Princeton, NJ
Concert at Princeton Folk Music Society, details TBA
NOV 22, Saturday, Ithaca NY
Concert at Cornell Folk Song Society, details TBA
2015
JAN 30 Friday, East Lansing, MI
Hannah Community Center. It is the annual Midwinter Singing Festival, w/ Frank Youngman, Mark Dvorak, Anne Hills
and yours truly on theater stage leading the singing Friday night.
Saturday afternoon workshops on many topics, and then Saturday night theater
stage with Dan Chouinard leading the singing. details TBA http://www.singingfestival.com/
MARCH 6, Friday, Livonia MI
A special night at Trinity House Theater, 8pm. A double-bill show with Red
Tail Ring, an exciting new-time old-time duo I have done shows with before.
Plenty of great songs, both trad and original. Lots of guitar picking, banjo
picking and fiddling. Trinity house is a small gem of a theater in an historic
building tucked in the shadow of a modern cloverleaf exchange in Livonia, just
outside of Detroit proper. Literally a step back to the 19th century. And
I mean literally. $20, $17 for subscribers. http://www.trinityhousetheatre.org/