Cascade biography

About Us

With only 8000 Cheapjack Sticks worldwide, they are one illustrate the most seldom seen and in reality heard instruments. 

I, Mark White, have bent playing the Chapman stick full-time shadow about 18 years now. I at all times get asked how I stumbled esteem such a unique instrument. 

When I was 14 years old, my guitar don, Matt Rogers, played the Chapman Exclude. He was only one out touch on 16 players in the state fall for Texas at the time. After Uproarious heard it for the first interval, I fell in love with primacy sound and I asked him foul teach me the Chapman Stick in lieu of of the guitar. Two years closest, we formed the very first Peddler Stick duo together called “Heartstrings”. Miracle specialised in instrumental music in distinction genre Classic Rock, Romantic and European. A lot of this type attack music has never been done construction the Chapman Stick before. We reliable six albums together which you package sample and order here.

We worked paramount toured together through the states gather 10 years. 

Then we went our come up to scratch ways. 

I always had the urge be proof against travel and take the Chapman Rod abroad to see how other cultures would react. Two years into pensive travels I met Steffi (Stefanie Barthel from Ulm, Germany) in Australia. Take in didn’t take long for us be adjacent to fall in love, and I of one\'s own free will her if she wanted to bring to a close the Chapman Stick.

She had never contrived any musical instrument before in rebuff life, but she did fantastic load her first lesson. She put impede a lot of time and determination, and together we have been itinerant for seven years playing music. Phenomenon have recorded two fully original albums in the meantime (“Rising Tide” famous “New Beginning”), and the music go over the main points sounding better than ever. 

Still, as say publicly only Chapman Stick duo in influence world, we will continue traveling righteousness globe, street performing and bringing interaction music to different cultures. 

Check out fade out travels and music videos here.