Start: September 19, 2026 7 p.m.
End: September 19, 2026 8:30 p.m.
Location: Brown Family Amphitheater
Mike Farris 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. For 2025’s The Sound of Muscle Shoals, Mike Farris made the pilgrimage that many soul shakers and stirrers have made before him, across the O’Neal Bridge and over the Tennessee River, straight into the creative vortex of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and right up to the door of the legendary Fame Studios. The resulting album is a culmination of all of Farris’s musical influences and life lessons learned, captured in a location that holds deep meaning for him, in creative collaboration with members of the legendary Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. The new album conjures up the intrinsic magic of the Muscle Shoals sound and wraps it around Farris’s heartfelt and hardscrabble blue-eyed soul vocals. In the intertwining threads of spiritual and earthly, of gospel and rock ‘n’ roll, of faith and fire, Farris once again brings what Rolling Stone describes as his “…supersized voice filled with the electricity of Saturday night and the godly grace of Sunday mornings…” to the album’s 11 tracks.
Special guests Mike Martin & The Beautiful Mess will open the show.
The 2026 Muncie Three Trails Series is sponsored by Ball State University.