Michael Kollwitz

After a year of writing and recording here on Maui, I’m very happy to
announce that my new CD, “Hawaiian Paradise” is now available and
ready to ship! It is my 11th independent release. Woo hoo! It was mixed
and mastered by three-time Grammy award winning sound engineer,
Dave Russell, and it features four tracks with veteran pedal steel [...]

I’ve learned that in the last week, NPR’s popular show, ‘Morning Edition’, has featured three of my songs from the CD ‘Waterfallin’, during the program’s breaks. One song was featured on June 11th and two more songs were featured on June 18th. The show is broadcast everyday from Washington D.C. and is heard nationwide on [...]

…thanks to the folks at Akaku TV, here on Maui. I went into their studios a few months back and taped a short segment on their “Hot Set” show. After that, they became interested in my video “Live In Concert” and they’ve aired it quite a few times since. It’s always nice when people come [...]

…has been a theme for me in this month of March 2008. I feel so fortunate! On March 1st, I performed with two of Maui’s great long-time musicians- Benny Uyetake and Glenn Kakugawa - at a corporate event in Wailea at The Grand Wailea resort. What a night! Not only are they awesome musicians, they [...]

Last May, filmmaker Roy Plisko of Phoenix, Arizona, posted the mini
video documentary (that we shot in October ‘06) on the web at
CurrentTV. Subsequently, it was voted in to their Number One slot in
both the United States and Great Britain. Late last year the rights
were sold to CurrentTV for national broadcast on their network of
dish, cable [...]

…is a collection of 15 songs entitled “Greatest Hits- Vol. 2″. It is up, and ready for downoad at this moment: http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playListId=268678474
Hope you’ll enjoy this album of original solo Chapman Stick recordings for the holidays. Put it on your iPod and take me with you wherever you go!
In addition to my Hawaiian Stick music album, I’m also [...]

….and Associate Editor, Starr Begley, for the awesome cover story about my music on The Chapman Stick in this week’s edition (Sept.27) of the paper. Wow! And with lots of great color photos, too. The best part of all is Starr’s writing style and how she crafts her words into a really excellent feature. If you’re on-island this week, I [...]