Meena Cryle & Chris Fillmore Band – October 2025 Tour
Meena Cryle & Chris Fillmore Band – October 2025 Tour:
17.10. – Sang A Klang, LUX-Luxembourg
18.10. – Heyhoef-Backstage, NL-Tilburg
19.10. – De Amer, NL-Amen (2 shows)
20.10. – Muddy’s Club, D-Weinheim
Meena Cryle is an Austrian blues singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist. She writes her own lyrics, composes and arranges the music and produces her own tracks and videos. In 2011 she was signed by Rufrecords, six years later by Continental Record Service. Meena was the first and only female competitor at the European Blues Challenge 2011 and the first and only female austrian competitor to date at the International Blues Challenge in Memphis. She is also the only Austrian musician invited to the American Blues Awards in Mepmhis Tennessee. She worked with Grammy Award winner Jim Gaines (John Lee Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughan,..), guitarist Donna Grantis (Prince) and sang as a support act for Cindy Lauper at the Vienna State Opera.
In her early career she was described by many as a rough diamond, something that needed to be chiseled and polished, but they probably didn’t know that someone with such brilliance would never allow to be polished. Meena combines excellent musical talent with creativity and emotion in addition to her incredible professionalism as an artist in general. Incidentally, she is a studied social worker, with international assignments and pronounced social and political commitment.
Chris Fillmore is a multi-instrumentalist who actually started out with drums lessons. Influenced by the lived musicality of his parents, he masters almost every instrument in a short time and has a natural talent for composition and songwriting. Chris Fillmore knows how to make the arc of suspense and the dynamic his own like hardly anyone else. He found his voice in the guitar, his way to the outside world. Junior Wells became aware of him when he was not even twenty years old, the Grammy Award winner Jim Gaines (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Santana,..) found in him a musical revelation and also a soulmate. He conducted the band in the Vienna State Opera as support for Cindy Lauper and was the first austrian guitarist in the european as well as american Blueschallenge. He played in a duet with Donna Grantis (Prince) and Coco Montoya as well as Ian Siegal.
He is a popular invited guitarist for Hans Theessink and he shared the record company with Luther Allison, Devon Allman, Jeff Healey, Eric Bibb, Mike Zito,… Chris Fillmore has several projects in which he deals extensively with his passion for roots music but also with selected songs by Elvis Presley or gospel and soul music. He has been invited to America several times, is an honorary citizen of the city of Tupelo and probably owns more than a hundred guitars and ninety-two amplifiers as well as a variety of vintage equipment. Well-read and extravagant, Chris Fillmore has a natural musical talent that is rarely found.
Website: http://www.meenacryle.com/