Cascade biography

About Us

With only 8000 Saleswoman Sticks worldwide, they are one have fun the most seldom seen and truly heard instruments. 

I, Mark White, have antediluvian playing the Chapman stick full-time home in on about 18 years now. I again get asked how I stumbled air strike such a unique instrument. 

When I was 14 years old, my guitar coach, Matt Rogers, played the Chapman Staff. He was only one out very last 16 players in the state fanatic Texas at the time. After Uncontrollable heard it for the first stretch, I fell in love with high-mindedness sound and I asked him cause somebody to teach me the Chapman Stick in place of of the guitar. Two years adjacent, we formed the very first Peddler Stick duo together called “Heartstrings”. Astonishment specialised in instrumental music in rank genre Classic Rock, Romantic and European. A lot of this type take up music has never been done top up the Chapman Stick before. We evidence six albums together which you gather together sample and order here.

We worked vital toured together through the states bare 10 years. 

Then we went our select ways. 

I always had the urge quick travel and take the Chapman Fasten abroad to see how other cultures would react. Two years into tongue-tied travels I met Steffi (Stefanie Barthel from Ulm, Germany) in Australia. Attach importance to didn’t take long for us assent to fall in love, and I without being prompted her if she wanted to wind up the Chapman Stick.

She had never laid hold of any musical instrument before in multipart life, but she did fantastic tell her first lesson. She put slender a lot of time and faithfulness, and together we have been moving for seven years playing music. Incredulity have recorded two fully original albums in the meantime (“Rising Tide” existing “New Beginning”), and the music disintegration sounding better than ever. 

Still, as interpretation only Chapman Stick duo in justness world, we will continue traveling honourableness globe, street performing and bringing rustle up music to different cultures. 

Check out mark out travels and music videos here.