Darrow Sherman: fiddle, banjo, and voice
Darrow grew up (to the extent that he has already done so) in downtown Washington, D.C. He was introduced to traditional folk music when he was three years old, at the Jazz and Heritage Festival of New Orleans. A young fiddler was playing there, and she played, of all things, The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
Darrow met Peri (who was at the time approximately age 7) at a session at The Royal Mile Pub in Wheaton as she was casually putting every other musician there to shame. He met Abraham dashing around with mutual friend in a city square full of tree boxes sometime late in the first decade of the 2000s. He continued to see both of them periodically until he and Peri were accepted as provisional members of the Bog Band (with Peri being accepted as a full member after some two rehearsals). Years later, they reencountered Abraham and persuaded him to join the band as well. On a tour to Ireland, the three of them began experimenting with other musical traditions. Soon, they began playing diverse folk music together as Maelstrom.
Darrow has other passions, including the Washington Revels in which he sings, dances, and otherwise performs for as many events as he can. He also enjoys Shakespeare, drama in general, literature, singing low notes, forests or wilderness of any sort, chocolate, and waltzes. Things he dislikes include excess mayonnaise, intrusive background noise, windmills masquerading as giants, giants masquerading as windmills, mysterious women lying in lakes distributing swords masquerading as a basis for a system of government, black licorice, and singing high notes.