Cascade

10 tracks total, check out these 3 samples

10 tracks total, check out these 3 samples

About Us

With only 8000 Chapman Sticks worldwide, they are one of the most seldom seen and really heard instruments. 

I, Mark White, have been playing the Chapman stick full-time for about 18 years now. I always get asked how I stumbled upon such a unique instrument. 

When I was 14 years old, my guitar teacher, Matt Rogers, played the Chapman Stick. He was only one out of 16 players in the state of Texas at the time. After I heard it for the first time, I fell in love with the sound and I asked him to teach me the Chapman Stick instead of the guitar. Two years later, we formed the very first Chapman Stick duo together called “Heartstrings”. We specialised in instrumental music in the genre Classic Rock, Romantic and Celtic. A lot of this type of music has never been done on the Chapman Stick before. We recorded six albums together which you can sample and order here.

We worked and toured together through the states for 10 years. 

Then we went our separate ways. 

I always had the urge to travel and take the Chapman Stick abroad to see how other cultures would react. Two years into my travels I met Steffi (Stefanie Barthel from Ulm, Germany) in Australia. It didn’t take long for us to fall in love, and I asked her if she wanted to learn the Chapman Stick.

She had never played any musical instrument before in her life, but she did fantastic on her first lesson. She put in a lot of time and dedication, and together we have been travelling for seven years playing music. We have recorded two fully original albums in the meantime (“Rising Tide” and “New Beginning”), and the music is sounding better than ever. 

Still, as the only Chapman Stick duo in the world, we will continue traveling the globe, street performing and bringing our music to different cultures. 

Check out our travels and music videos here.

From April 2021 to November 2023, we partnered with the tree planting nonprofit Eden reforestation. During this time, for every album sold, we donated to plant trees in third world countries around the globe. In just 2 1/2 years we were able to plant 55,600 trees. 

Why We’re not on Spotify or iTunes

We do get asked a lot why our music is not available on big music platforms such as Spotify or iTunes. Not many people we talk to are familiar with how much the platforms actually pay the Artists. For example, on Spotify the artist receives only $0.00437 per stream and iTunes takes a 30% cut and has very strict rules on how albums are sold. When you buy our music from our website or directly from us you support the band 100%, which makes it possible for us to produce music and to support non-profits.

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