The 2017 Trails West! line-up has been announced which includes a mix of country, funk rock, and blues-pop.
This year’s festival will take place August 18-21 in Civic Center Park in St. Joseph, Missouri.
Here Come the Mummies, takes the stage Friday night; country music stars Clare Dunn and Trace Adkins will play Saturday; and Sunday’s entertainment includes the Grand Funk Railroad.

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Here Come the Mummies return this year after they were set to perform at the festival in 2016 and the show was cancelled due to dangerous weather. According to a news release, the band is an eight-piece rock band with a “terrifying funk from beyond the grave” sound. They have opened for P-Funk, Al Green and Cheap Trick, and they rocked Super Bowl Village 2012.

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Clare Dunn is an energetic, guitar-playing country music singer and songwriter from a small farm-town, Two Buttes, Colorado. Dunn made her debut in 2015 and has shared the stage with Luke Bryan, Miranda Lambert, Bob Seger and many more popular artists. She was named one of Rolling Stone’s “Best Things We Saw at CMA Music Fest 2015” and her hit “Tuxedo” is currently being played on country radio across the nation.

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Trace Adkins’ trademark baritone has powered countless hits to the top of the charts and sold over 10 million albums, cumulatively. He recently released a new hit album, “Something’s Going On,” in March 2017. His hit list includes “You’re Gonna Miss This,” “Ladies Love Country Boys,” “Songs About Me,” “Every Light In The House,” “Hillbilly Bone (Blake Shelton & Trace Adkins),” and “Just Fishin’,” to name a few.

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The festival’s entertainment concludes Sunday evening with Grand Funk Railroad, a classic American pop rock band. According to the Allied Arts Council, Rolling Stone magazine once said “You cannot talk about rock in the 1970s without talking about Grand Funk Railroad!”
Admission to the festival is by souvenir button or 2017 Trails West! ® T-shirt. All festival guests over the age of 10 will need a button for admission. Trails West! ® T-shirts must be purchased in advance and can be worn to the festival as an alternative option to purchasing an admission button. Buttons will go on sale July 1. They will be available for sale online and at various locations across St. Joseph. Buttons locations will be announced at a later date.