Michael Kollwitz

…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 [...]

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 [...]

…no problem! There are sound samples from 8 of my 9 releases at www.cdbaby.com/all/stikmstr (Sorry- the DVD doesn’t have sound samples but you can find video clips both here and on YouTube). You’ll also find various sound samples at my other website- www.ChapmanStickMusic.com And, if that isn’t enough, you’ll find even more both at- www.myspace.com/MichaelKollwitz [...]

Aloha from Maui to you all!
Thanks for all the positive comments (150+!) for the “Stick Man” video that Roy Plisko and I produced late last year in Phoenix. It made it to the top of the heap on Current.TV in both the US and the UK. We’re told that it will air nationwide, hopefully later this [...]

Wow- what a week this has been! Sacramento magazine interviewed me last month and in the May 2007 issue there is a full-page article and amazing color photo (shot by professional photographer Bruce Brown of Napa, CA). You’ll find it on page 31. Go out and get a copy while you still can. If not- [...]

During the Fall and Winter months, I was involved in a number of behind-the-scenes projects, one of which was to help in the filming and production of a documentary about The Chapman Stick with veteran video procer and filmmaker Roy Plisko of Phoenix, Arizona. Roy’s work has been shown on MTV, VH1 and many other networks.
Roy and [...]

If you’d like to see why they used to call me “The Wild Man Of The Stick”, just watch this video of a performance I gave in Tempe, Arizona in 1993. The clip was produced by my old friend, Joel Samuel. He had a long running TV program called “Backstage Pass in Arizona”. And it [...]