Summer Arts and Music Festival is a family-friendly event with live music, craft, food, non profit booths, performing artists and fine art.

About this event

Music on four stages, more performers and full schedule coming soon at mateel.org

Line up as of April 19th:

The Expendables - Diggin' Dirt - Audiopharmacy - Pacific Vibration - Sambada - Maria Maldaur - Object Heavy -Tropicali - Arkaingelle - Timbata - Warehouse 21 - Blu Axis - Barn Fire - Un Amour - Soullevity - Soul Medic - Zahira - Humboldt Latin Jazz Ensemble and more to be announced soon!

The Mateel Community Center, a non profit organization is proud to announce the 45th Summer Arts & Music Festival This beloved community tradition has been a mainstay of Southern Humboldt community culture for over four decades. 

The North Coast Journal readers voted Summer Arts the “Best Music Festival 2020”, because this family-friendly event provides a gathering space to enjoy local, regional and national live music and performing artists at various stages on the festival grounds plus a fun-filled kids zone and over 100  international foods, fine arts and unique artisan crafts, and non-profit groups create an arts village situated along the Eel River with a redwood SoHum backdrop.

The Mateel staff and board of directors are pleased to announce that the festival has a new home for June 2022, seven miles south of the Benbow location along a lovely stretch of the south fork of the Eel river, located to the east of highway 101 in Cooks Valley, known as County Line Ranch.

The County Line Ranch property is largely flat, partially wooded with ample space for both the event and for onsite vehicle day parking ($20) providing daily in and out options, access to vehicles for the general public, a huge improvement for us all