detour

Detour is a bluegrass band from Northern Michigan. Detour combines original contemporary bluegrass sounds along with great traditional favorites. With tight focused harmonies, precision instrumentals, and creative melodies, Detour takes you down a unique bluegrass road.

Featuring the high lonesome vocals and low lonesome string bass of Zak Bunce, the tasty fiddle playing of Peter Knupfer, the soulful guitar of Scott Zylstra, the hard driving mandolin and superb song writing of Jeff Rose, and the stellar banjo playing of 2007/2001 National Banjo Champion Mike Sumner, Detour has quickly become a standout bluegrass band --- ”a bluegrass joyride“.

Detour has enjoyed a highly successful first season receiving great critical acclaim at numerous concerts and festivals including Dunegrass, and Wheatland.

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

latest detour...

Detour's 2nd CD is well underway and should be ready for purchase by mid June. Stay tuned...

Check out Detour's latest review of our Radio Hill CD by Bluegrass Unlimited. Click here to read the review.

Read BluegrassJournal.com's review of Detour's "Radio Hill" CD and Mike Sumner's "Winds of Winfield" CD. "Scott Zyltra's guitar work, which at times is about as off-the-wall and on-target as it comes. There isn't a guitar break on the CD that didn't make me take note. No, it's not Doc Watson, Tony Rice or Kenny Smith, it's more left of center than any of that. And, oh so tasteful." Click here to read the article.

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Special thanks to Sue Park for her photo contributions!