Detour, the powerhouse bluegrass quintet from Michigan, released its third album last year, which includes a moving appeal to all Americans to stand up and support the needs of homeless veterans. "I heard a news story about homeless veterans,” Jeff Rose, the band's leader and chief songwriter recounted recently.
Proceeds from the sales of the song are being donated to a local group that helps provide homes for homeless veterans.
“I was stunned to learn there are around 70,000 homeless veterans in this country,” said Jeff Rose, “and over 600 in northern Michigan, alone."
This week, Jeff took another ONE THOUSAND DOLLAR Check to the Goodwill Industries of Northern Michigan to help support their PATRIOT PLACE. This donation was made possible from your download purchases of their amazing song “Homeless of the Brave”. Find out more about their commitment to homeless veterans and how you can show your support by downloading “Homeless of the Brave” http://www.detourbluegrass.com/
Detour is a Michigan-based bluegrass band that combines original contemporary bluegrass sounds with great traditional favorites. Detour’s tight focused harmonies, precision instrumentals, and creative melodies take you down a unique bluegrass road.
The band’s talented line-up features the soaring lead vocals of Missy Armstrong, the championship fiddling of Peter Knupfer, the inventive rhythm lines of Jack Grant on bass, the soulful guitar of Scott Zylstra, the hard driving mandolin and superb song writing of Jeff Rose, and the stellar banjo playing of Kevin Gaugier. Detour has quickly become a standout — “a bluegrass joyride” that the Lansing State Journal acclaims as “perhaps the best bluegrass band Michigan has yet produced.”
"If you don't think of Michigan as a hotbed of bluegrass, Detour is the band that will change your mind. As musicians, singers, and songwriters, the members of Detour hold their own on any bluegrass stage. They're a thoroughly professional, highly entertaining band with a terrific repertoire of originals, classics, hot instrumentals, and a few surprises. For the total bluegrass package, take this Detour!" -- Bob Blackman, host of "The Folk Tradition," WKAR-FM, East Lansing, MI
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