Music in the Dunes

From staff reports

Michigan bluegrass band Detour headlined this summer’s Dune Climb concert, which was held on July 15. This free annual concert, which celebrated its 15th year, is the highlight of the season for many families. It’s the fruit of a creative partnership between the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and the Glen Arbor Art Association’s Manitou Music Festival.

Detour combines original contemporary bluegrass sounds with great traditional favorites. The band’s tight focused harmonies, precision instrumentals, and creative melodies took their picnicking audience down a unique bluegrass road. Detour’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.

Check out more photos of Detour’s Dune Climb Concert.