Salamander Crossing was a bluegrass band based in

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that disbanded in 1999. The band was composed of lead singer and

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Rani Arbo, Jeff Kelliher on

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, mandolin, and

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, and Andrew Kinsey on bass and

. They derived their name from a pair of tunnels under Henry Street in Amherst, Massachusetts that

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used in order to cross the road to mate in vernal pools. There is a salamander monument, featured on their final album cover in the Cushman Village Historic District that commemorates the first salamander crossings installed in 1987. Rani Arbo went on to found

Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem Rani Arbo and the band Daisy Mayhem, consisting of Andrew Kinsey, Anand Nayak, and Scott Kessel, are an American musical group whose style combines folk, country blues, progressive bluegrass, jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in ...

, of which Kinsey is a member.

Discography

* ''Salamander Crossing'' (1995) * ''Passion Train'' (1996) * ''Bottleneck Dreams'' (1998) * ''Henry Street: A Retrospective'' (2000)

References

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