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Detour Partners with Goodwill Industries to Help Homeless Veterans
For Release: May 21, 2012
Contact:
Jeff Rose, Detour, jeff@detourbluegrass.com, 231-690-3321, http://www.detourbluegrass.com/buzz
Leah Bagdon McCallum, Goodwill Industries of Northern Michigan, Inc. Director of Fund Development leahm@goodwillnmi.org, office: 231.995.7719
cell: 231.944.8320

Detour Bluegrass Band Partners with Goodwill to Help Homeless Veterans

The Michigan based bluegrass band Detour has committed profits from the sales of its song "Homeless Of The Brave" to Goodwill’s Patriot Place project. Patriot Place is a transitional housing community for Northern Michigan’s homeless veterans. The song, which is included on their newest release "A Better Place", was written by band member Jeff Rose as a direct response to a story that he heard on the radio about the plight of homeless veterans. Rose was "stunned to learn that there are approximately 70,000 homeless veterans in this country and over 600 in northern Michigan alone".

The song is a story about American veterans who return home, only to find they cannot get jobs, or in some cases, even find places to live and sleep.



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Detour's Third Release Includes Homage to Homeless Veterans
For Release: April 23, 2012
Contact: Jeff Rose (jeff@detourbluegrass.com) or Missy Armstrong (booking@detourbluegrass.com)

Detour, the powerhouse bluegrass band from Michigan, released its third album this month, 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. “I was stunned to learn there are around 70,000 homeless veterans in this country, and over 600 in northern Michigan, alone." Here was the inspiration for "Homeless of the Brave," an emotional and powerful track sung by the band's lead singer Missy Armstrong, on Detour's new album, *A Better Place,* which was released this month.

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