With
relentless drive and consistently solid album releases, Cates made big
waves in the music mecca of Athens, Georgia for eight years before moving
back to his home state of North Carolina where he now runs a major production
studio while still touring heavily as a solo artist and with his band
The Chris Cates Band. Cates also gained fame as the enigmatic leader of
2003 and 2004 Flagpole Music Awards original Funk/Soul band of the year
Parakeet Nelson. (www.parakeetnelson.com)
The music remains fun, funny, deeply emotional and highly entertaining
and touches on personal subjects such as: life on the road, the end of
relationships, the struggles of living poor and many others; while maintaining
a positive uplifting spiritual message without any religious overtones.
It is Cates’s relentless drive to create good songs and great albums
that led former Allman Brothers and current Derek Trucks producer Tom
Snyder to say that Chris Cates writes “great songs that are refreshingly
original and just different enough to go somewhere in today’s society.”
Chris will be performing with long-time friend and touring partner, Mike
Lowdermilk (bass), for Earth Day.
And, we are very pleased that he has agreed to serve as the MC the event.
SET TIME: 1PM