Salamander Crossing was a bluegrass

Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...

 band based in New England

New England

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

Fiddler

A fiddler is a person who plays a fiddle or violin.Fiddler may also refer to:*Fabrangen Fiddlers, an American musical group founded in 1971*Tupolev Tu-28 "Fiddler", a fighter aircraft*Fiddler , a DC Comics villain...

 Rani Arbo, Jeff Kelliher on guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

, mandolin

Mandolin

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, and vocals, and Andrew Kinsey on bass

Bass guitar

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 and vocals. They derived their name from a pair of tunnels in Amherst, Massachusetts

Amherst, Massachusetts

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 that salamanders used in order to cross the road to mate in their vernal ponds. Rani Arbo went on to found Rani Arbo and Daisy Mayhem

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, and swing...

, of which Kinsey is a member.

Discography

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