Hot Day at the Zoo, a fiercely progressive 4-piece string band grown in Lowell, MA are spreading their eclectic roots up and down the eastern seaboard and as far west as Colorado. Celebrating their 7th year together as a band in January '09, Jon Cumming (banjo, dobro, vocals,), Michael Dion (guitar, harmonica, vocals,) and Jed Rosen (upright bass, vocals), and JT Lawrence (mandolin, vocals) released their sophomore EP, Long Way Home (INTA --> Records).