Chris Hall

Chris Hall's first love is Cajun music. He is a leading authority on the music of the Louisiana Bayou's and started playing in his own band 'R Cajun & the Zydeco Brothers' in the late 70's. In 1999, Paul McCartney asked Chris to lend his talents as an accordion player to a track on the album he was recording: 'Run Devil Run'. Chris went along to Abbey Road where, along with Dave Gilmour, Ian Paice, Pete Wingfield and Mick Green, he recorded Chuck Berry's 'Brown Eyed Handsome Man' with McCartney. TV Appearances promoting the album followed and on December 14 1999, Paul, Chris and the band returned to Liverpool to play the now historic Cavern Show. Immediately after that gig, Chris crossed Mathew Street and came to join the Cavern City Tours Staff Party at the Cavern Pub, joining Ringer onstage to perform 'air-accordion' on 'Brown Eyed Handsome Man'. Chris Hall returned to Liverpool in August where he, Ringer and Bob Bartey and Steve MacDonald played recreated the Run Devil Run Show at the Cavern. We thought it was so good, we've asked him back, but this time he gets to escape the heat of the cellar club as Run Devil Run is being performed on the Cavern Stage as part of the Mathew Street Festival.