Chris Cates's Picture Pages

Performing the National Anthem at Charlotte Knights Stadium.

Chris Cates and the MasterPlan live at the Orange Peel in Asheville, NC

Playing for the kids.

You can find Chris Cates recycling mass quantities of recyclables when he's not in the studio or on the golf course.

For more of Chris Cates's golf stuff visit thegolfcd.com

Chris Cates and the MasterPlan check out some rock masonry

and get ready for the Zoot Suit convention.

(Left) - Chris Cates, Dwayne Wallace and John Kell accepting the Album of the Year Award at the 2004 Flagpole Athens Music Awards with Fuzzy Sprouts/Aqualove frontman Tim Conley in the background.

(Right) - Chris Cates and Mike Elam accepting the award for the 2003 Funk Band of the Year at the Athens Flagpole Music Awards.

Accepting the 2003 Funk Band of the Year Award with Mike Elam.

Chris Singleton, Joe Buck (from Hank III) and Chris Cates after the show June 25, 2007 at the Sterling Street Lounge in Morganton, NC.

Chris Cates & the MasterPlan opened up for Joe Buck.

Mike Lowdermilk on Bass, Jason Peeler on drums and Chris Cates on guitar and harmonica at the 3rd Annual Asheville Earthday Festival, April 16th 2005 at City/County Plaza downtown Asheville, NC

The Chris Cates Band - taken outside Full Moon Studios in Watkinsville, Georgia Feb. 2005.

Chris Cates live with Lions from Zion wearing a specially made contraption that enabled him to play guitar with severe nerve damage from a broken wrist, suffered several months earlier. The injury consequently canceled Cates's entire 2001/2002 World Tour and pushed the release date for "Risky Biscuits" back almost eleven months.

On tour in Hamilton, Bermuda - April 2005.

The Old Colony Club - where Cates headlined for the Bermuda National Folk Club on Saturday April 2, 2005 with Ben Nunn accompanying him on acoustic guitar.

Old Colony Club - Hamilton, Bermuda. Venue for the Bermuda National Folk Club.

Parakeet Nelson performing at the Bradley Theatre in downtown Columbus, Ga. at the beginning of the "Risky Biscuits Tour". John Kell on alto, Chris Cates on guitar, Dave Brockway on drums, Dwayne Wallace on bass and John Wayne on lead guitar.

Parakeet jamming at the Boar's Head in Athens in 2001. R-L John Wayne, Chris Eckenroth,Seth Hendershot, Chris Cates and Dwayne Wallace

Rockin' the harp at the Historic Morganton Festival, Sept. 11, 2004.

The Chris Cates band live at the

Historic Morganton Festival Sept. 11, 2004.

Live in Dresden, Germany, June of 2000. AJ Adams (of Stewart & Winfield) on bass, Seth Hendershot (of Aqualove & Fuzzy Sprouts) on drums, Mike Elam (of Funk Shui & Primm) on trumpet and vocals and CC on guitar and vocals.

Phallic Phungus in Dresden, Germany 2000.

Parakeet Nelson Fall 2002 Press pic. Parakeet Nelson won best original Funk Band two years in a row at the Flagpole Music Awards in Athens. (L-R CC, Dwayne Wallace, Dave Brockway, John Wayne)

Parakeet Nelson 2002.

Parakeet live onstage.

Live at the "Getaway Plans" North Carolina CD Release party at Legends in Morganton, NC. Mike Lowdermilk on bass, Cates on guitar, Jason Peeler on drums, Andrej Kurti on violin and John Kell on alto sax.