About

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.”

Detour has enjoyed four highly successful seasons receiving great critical acclaim at numerous concerts and festivals including Dunegrass, Wheatland, the Great Lakes Folk Festival, Virginia Public Television’s “Song of the Mountains” concert series, and Interlochen Center for the Arts, among many others.

We invite you to continue with us on the bluegrass road less traveled.  Thanks for visiting!

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