Mabel's Community Celebration 2025

Come and join The Mabel Tainter for our 5th Annual Mabel Community Celebration!
Enjoy a variety of delicious food from the food trucks, jam out to live music, and have fun with the whole community. This event is open to everyone, so bring your friends, family, and neighbors for a night of festivities. We hope to see you there!
Live Performances:
2PM: To Laugh is To Live - The Mabel Stage

"To Laugh is to Live!" is a hilarious theatrical adventure featuring family entertainer Kenny Ahern. The show is perfectly suited for the Mabel Tainter stage. You will be introduced to a whimsical and comic world where the audience happily becomes partners with Kenny's lovable character. Prepare to laugh, snort, and guffaw as you experience a joyful sense of wonder that will leave you wishing for more. 

Kenny has years of experience winning audiences' hearts on stages around the world, including Singapore, Russia, Poland, Japan, England, Hong Kong, France, Canada, Hungary, India, and Taiwan. His captivating performance style masterfully blends physical comedy, improvisation, music, dance, and circus/variety arts. 

"I'm not a solo act because so many audience members (grown-ups and kids) join me on stage," Kenny proudly proclaims. "I want my new partners to feel great when they leave the stage. I want them to be the stars!"

It's a funny, heartwarming show that speaks volumes without saying a word.   

4PM: The Home Grown Tomatoes Band - The Main Street Stage

6PM: Michael Perry and The Long Beds - The Main Street Stage

Michael Perry and the Long Beds feature all-original songs written and sung by Michael Perry (New York Times bestselling author of numerous books including: Population 485, Truck, The Scavengers, and Visiting Tom). Perry began writing music in the early 1990s as a way to break up all-night typing sessions when he was struggling to survive on prose. Eventually a musician friend invited him to play a coffee shop gig. “I’m not saying I was nervous, but I cranked out a sixty-minute set list in thirty-two minutes flat,” says Perry.

Since then Michael has released 4 albums, several singles, and toured backed by a collection of renowned musicians who have performed on numerous stages throughout the world (including The Tonight Show, Austin City Limits, and Eaux Claires festival) and worked with a host of artists, including Bon Iver, S. Carey, The Staves, Miley Cyrus, Lizzo, Field Report, The Tallest Man on Earth, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and many more.

Every Long Beds show is built on roughneck ballads and freight train rockers interspersed with hilarious off-the-cuff tales from Mike’s diverse experience as a Wisconsin farm kid turned cowboy turned nurse turned best selling author and humorist (as featured on the recent PBS special Michael Perry: On the Road).

Michael Perry resides with his family on a small farm in rural Wisconsin.

8PM: Abbasolutely Fab - The Main Street Stage

“ABBAsolutely Fab” — an all-star lineup of stellar Twin Cities and British musicians performing the songs of pop/disco supergroup, ABBA!  Since forming several summers ago they have been selling out shows at theaters, clubs and parks all over the State.