BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:11157@muncieevents.com DTSTAMP:20260815T130205Z CATEGORIES:Music COMMENT:Info source: www.munciethreetrails.com CONTACT:smzfoundation55@gmail.com DTSTART;TZID=AMERICA/INDIANA/INDIANAPOLIS:20260919T190000 DESCRIPTION:GRAMMY \;award winning musician Mike Farris\, along with hi s band The Fortunate Few\, will be performing a FREE outdoor concert as pa rt of the 2026 Muncie Three Trails Music Series. Locals Mike Martin &\; the Beautiful Mess will open the show.\n\nMike Farris \;is an artist ’s artist and a musician’s musician\, celebrated and revered by his fe llow performers. He is a GRAMMY\, Americana Association\, and Dove Music a ward winner\, with six solo albums since 2001. He is also a founding membe r of 90’s mainstream rock group\, The Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies.\n\nF arris was born in 1968 in Winchester\, TN. With a gospel-fueled voice that sounds like a cross between the hard rock blast of \;Bon Scott \; and the joyful sweetness of \;Al Green\, Mike has taken a long time to balance his life and considerable talent. Devastated when his parents div orced when he was 11 years old\, Farris tumbled early into the world of dr ugs and alcohol\, a lifestyle that landed him in reform school. Nearly dyi ng from an accidental overdose\, he moved in with his father and began pla ying guitar and writing songs\, gradually pulling himself out of the depth s of his addictions. After forming the seminal 1990s blues jam band \; the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies\, however\, the endless touring and bars se nt him right back to his old bad habits\, and while he put out fine music with \;SCW\, with \;Peaceful Knievel\, and during his stint as the singer for \;Double Trouble\, \;Stevie Ray Vaughan's old rhythm s ection\, Farris was in deep emotional trouble. Finally\, in 2004\, while a ttending the funeral of a friend\, he decided he had enough\, and embraced both God and sobriety. \;\n\nSince that time\, Mike has put out four studio releases\, two live records\, and one charity EP (as Mike Farris an d the Cumberland Saints. His music is diverse but tends to be rooted in ea rly American gospel and blues. In 2008\, Farris won the Americana Music Aw ard for New and Emerging Artist\, \;in 2010 \, SHOUT!! Live won the Do ve Award for Traditional Gospel Album of the Year\, \; and his 2014 re lease\, Shine For All The People\, \;won the GRAMMY for Best Roots Gos pel Album. For 2025’s The Sound of Muscle Shoals\, Mike Farris’s first album since 2018’s Silver &\; Stone\, Farris made the pilgrimage to the doors of the legendary Fame Studios in Muscle Shoals\, AL. The resulti ng album is a \; culmination \;of all of Farris’s musical influe nces and life lessons learned\, captured in a location that holds deep mea ning for him. In collaboration with members of the legendary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section\, the band captures lightning in a bottle\, channeling the spirit of their musical forebearers\, conjuring up the intrinsic magic of the Muscle Shoals sound\, and wrapping it around Farris’s heartfelt and hardscrabble blue-eyed soul vocals. In the intertwining threads of spirit ual and earthly\, of gospel and rock ‘n’ roll\, of faith and fire\, Fa rris once again brings what Rolling Stone Country describes as his “supe rsized voice filled with the electricity of Saturday night and the godly g race of Sunday mornings” to the album’s 11 tracks. LOCATION:Brown Family Amphitheater\, Ball State University SUMMARY:Muncie Three Trails Presents Mike Farris & the Fortunate Few URL;VALUE=URI:https://muncieevents.com/event/11157 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR