Born on the 14th of February in Oregon, Christopher Bauer grew up in the same state until the age of fifteen, at which time his family (mom, dad, and two younger sisters) relocated to Washington State, where they still reside. He attended a few different high schools, finally graduating from the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics in Vancouver, Washington, and immediately continuing his education the following Autumn at Western Washington University.
       Chris started playing music in the fifth grade on clarinet, and picked up the guitar before the seventh. He and some friends from middle school formed a rather short-lived band named Mode Sevn, which played a total of two gigs: the first at the middle school's talent show, the second in a friend's barn, on a makeshift stage made of wooden cargo pallets. Amazingly, approximately thirty people showed up.
       His first year living in Vancouver (sophomore year of high school), he met a kid named Elliott Bennett in first period art class. Elliott also was a musician, but he and Chris didn't really become friends and start hanging out until a year or two later. It was around this time Chris started to get more serious as a musician and composer. The school and social misfit he was, he used music as a way to channel his anger and discontentment with society and people's unacceptingness and ignorance.
       After changing schools (again) finally to the Arts school, he was told by a classmate about a need for a guitarist in his traditional Irish band. Chris sat in on a session with band soon after. They seemed to see potential in him, and in less than a week's time, without any additional rehearsal, he was doing his first gig with The Pangur Ban Ceili Band at a private party in Central Oregon. As more time with the band passed, Chris and the band grew much tighter musically, infusing more contemporary concepts to the formerly traditional band (much of the influence from Chris), and by the end of his senior year, had become a rather amazing and respected band within their local area.
       During this time, though, Chris continued to work on his solo project, and had eventually developed a rather decent repertoire. His Senior Project served as an excuse for him to make his first recording -- an EP consisting of live recordings from various open mic performances, titled "The Failing Pedestrian EP", which also motivated him to finally start playing open mics and getting his music out to others. By this time, Chris and Elliott had become better acquainted and started making music together.
       The summer following the album's release, Chris relocated to Bellingham, Washington for university. There he continued to make his music and presence known, frequenting the campus' weekly open mic and making a name for himself in his paricular residence hall, doing local concerts, opening for other local acts such as Handful of Luvin', Racetrack, and Chicago's indie outfit The Reputation.
       In the summer of 2005, with one year of college under his belt, Chris returned to Vancouver for the holidays, and created a long-planned band with Elliott which came be known as The Royal. Elliott recruited Kurt Caywood, a friend from high school, to play drums, and Chris was able to persuade Nick Peck, thirty years the other boys' elder, to take up post as bassist. They quickly formed a respectable repertoire consisting of songs previously composed by Chris and Elliott, and played a few shows in Portland, before Chris and Elliott moved away to their separate universities for the year.
       The summer of 2006 found the boys reconvening for the season, working on more intricate arrangements, as well as turning out more tunes worked on by the entire band. Compositions as well as musicianship throughout the band have improved immensely, and one can expect great things from the band in the future.
       During the regular school years, Chris resides in Bellingham, where he is still enrolled at Western as a Philosophy major and plans to graduate with a BA in Humanties in Spring of 2008. Plans for a new EP are in their preliminary stages, with hopes that their concept will reach realisation within the next half year.