The 17th Annual "Cancer Jam" is set for Nickle Lake Regional Park June 25-26 with a list of nearly two dozen bands and enough activities to make your wheels spin.

The Canadian Cancer Society Southeast Unit country music jamboree weekend will officially kick off with the Friday night Cruise Night down Third Avenue sponsored by the Happy Gang, from 3 p.m. until 10 p.m.

Saturday at Nickle Lake will feature the Swap Meet hosted by the Antique Car Club, a Motor Blow-Out sponsored by Southside Auto Wreckers, and Poker Run late Saturday afternoon. The music will also begin at 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon and continue until 10 p.m. that night, resuming at 10 a.m. on Sunday and finishing up at 8 p.m.

Twenty bands including Midlife Crisis, The Entertainers, Sundown, Teagan Littlechief, and Quinten Wiebe have been confirmed for the weekend shows.

Sunday will see favourite events such as the Show and Shine from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m., worst rustbucket/beater competition, and the Weyburn City Fire Department "Water Tug-O-War" from 2 to 4 p.m.

Event co-chair Les Hill says there's almost too many things happening this year to keep track of. "There's so much going on it's hard to remember it all. It's just growing every year, just growing and growing and growing," and will include a fund-raising head-shave as well, to support cancer research.

"Anybody can enter the head shave. This year there are a couple of guys who've got a challenge on with a lady from SaskPower; if they raise $5,000, she'll shave her head."

Admission this year will cost $9 for entry to the park, as well as $5 per day for people over the age of 12, or $8 for both days. Regional park pass holders will not have to pay the $9, but will be charged the daily Cancer Jam rate.

Hill says the Southeast Unit is currently short of volunteers and wants to encourage anyone who'd like to work this year to give the agency a call.

"Right now, we're just crying out for volunteers, for 50/50 sales, the beverage gardens, you name it," he said.

"We're just all out there to raise money to eradicate cancer. That's why we put it on every year. And it's just a great time."