09/19/2026
Mike Farris & The Fortunate Few are coming to Muncie TODAY! 🎵 Join us on Saturday, September 19, 2026 - TODAY - at Brown Family Amphitheater on the campus of Ball State University for this great FREE CONCERT! The music starts at 7p - come early for our local food/drink vendors!
RSVP: Mike Farris & The Fortunate Few at the 2026 Muncie Three Trails Music Series
Mike Farris is an artist’s artist and a musician’s musician, celebrated and revered by his fellow performers. He is a GRAMMY, Americana Association, and Dove Music award winner, with six solo albums since 2001. He is also a founding member of 90’s mainstream rock group, The Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies.
Farris was born in 1968 in Wi******er, 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 divorced when he was 11 years old, Farris tumbled early into the world of drugs and alcohol, a lifestyle that landed him in reform school. Nearly dying from an accidental overdose, he moved in with his father and began playing guitar and writing songs, gradually pulling himself out of the depths of his addictions. After forming the seminal 1990s blues jam band the Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies, however, the endless touring and bars sent 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 section, Farris was in deep emotional trouble. Finally, in 2004, while attending the funeral of a friend, he decided he had enough, and embraced both God and sobriety.
Since that time, Mike has put out four studio releases, two live records, and one charity EP (as Mike Farris and the Cumberland Saints). His music is diverse but tends to be rooted in early American gospel and blues. In 2008, Farris won the Americana Music Award for “New and Emerging Artist.” In 2010, SHOUT!! Live won the Dove Award for “Traditional Gospel Album of the Year,” and his 2014 release, Shine For All The People, won the GRAMMY for “Best Roots Gospel Album.”
Special local act Mike Martin & The Beautiful Mess opens today for the last Muncie Three Trails Music Series of 2026! 🎶
