The Star Club is proud to announce this wednesday July 23rd during our regular jam session celebrated blues guitarist Curtis Anderson (Guitar Curtis) will be in the house. Curtis has performed many venues in his career which spans 5 decades. He performed at the early San Francisco Blues Festivals in the 70..s and 80..s. shared the stage and same record lable as Buddy Guy and has toured throughout United States and Europe. Curtis will turn 77 on thursday so we thought what a better way to honor one of our own by helping him celebrate. Curtis is battling cancer right now and his prognoises is good so we hope to have him around for many more shows. Curtis moved to the Merced area in 1994 from the bay area and bought himself a little ranch outside merced that he calls home now and we are pleased to have him in our community. We have rumor that some of his old friends from up north will be in town to help us spred the joy so please help us out by comming down and showing a legendary Bluesman some love. There will be a potluck diner so if you can cook and want to bring a dish it will be highly appreciated. music starts at 8 and runs til when ever they chase us off . We surely hope to see everyone for what promises to be a night of great blues and a damn good time!

we are located @ 1331 w. main street in merced ca. 95340 for more info call us @ 209 723-1047, never a cover charge @ The Star Club, must be 21 to attend. C-Ya @ The Star Club!!

Sept 30 Sun. Special event. Live recording session with Cynthia Huddleston & The Juke Joint Jokers, formaly Whiskey Low Band and some special guests was off the hook! The place was packed and the party roared all day as the many talented players just rocked the house. Cynthia Huddlestons vocals along side her Juke Joint Jokers rythms just captured the crowds attention for the first set. The second set with Gary and Ron Kyne blazing some SRV tunes showed their multi-talented skills are not limited to the blues, the third set seen The Alan Hall Blues Band bring in the brass as Harry Cambell on the sax and Timbone on the trombone displayed their horn section talents to an aroused crowd that showed they liked them horns. Alan, Joel, Buddy & Mike pushed the grove to another level behind the drive of the horns, was indeed a great day of music @ The Star Club. check out the pitcure section for some photos of the show, don`t be afraid to leave us a comment. Oh, I almost forgot to thank all the cooks who contributed their cullinary skills to this event, the food was awsome!! So lets sum this up, good food, good music, good folks, what a day!

We would like to thank everyone who showed up last wens. night for the jam session, we really did have a great time! Some people who were there early might have noticed that there was a reporter and photographer in the building from The Sun Star doing some interviews and taking photos. Well we are hoping to get a little write-up on our efforts to support live music in our community. Thanks to the efforts of the Alan Hall Blues Band who hosts the jam session we are becomming a force on the local scene, Thanks Guys! So if the editor approves the articl they will print it soon. Our thanks to reporter Dyhana Levey for taking an interest in our club.

well I`m hoping most of you seen the artical, awsome job by the Sun Star staff we couldn`t have been happier. just one correction it was Craig Deal playing the bass in the photo, Thanks Sun Star!

Last wens. during the jam session Tim Lopes from Switchblade Studios was in the house doing a live recording session with his state of the art digital system. during the session I had a chance to slip on the headphones and take a peek so to speak of the tunes, sounding really great. We would like to thank Tim Lopes for his efforts to capture to magic of the jam, hope to be listening to it soon, THANKS TIM!!!

OK, update on the live recording, Tim is editing the tracks, listened to a couple songs last night, sounding really good! I`ll keep you posted on the progress.

FYI the State of Ca. has a group of new driving fines effective July 1st 2007

in case you are not aware here they are.

1.Car pool lane violation- 1st time $1068.00 starting 7/1/07 the 271.00 fine posted no longer applies), 2nd offence doubles, third time triples and 4th offence will cause suspencion of license.

2. Incorrect lane change- $380.00 don`t cross solid yellow lines.

3. Block intersection-$485.00 Them little old ladies stopped in the middle of the intersection are gonna pay!

4. Driving on the shoulder- 450.00, call a tow truck, will be cheaper.

5. Cell Phone use in construction zone- Double fines as of 7/1/07, cell phone use must be hands free only.

6.Passengers over 18 not wearing seat belts. Both passenger and driver receive citations of up to $160.00 each.

7. Speeders will be cited at any speed more than 3 mph over the posted speed limit, no more 10% posted speed limit grace.

8. DUI=Jail all alcohol related convictions will remain on your driving record for 10 years

9. As of 7/1/07 all cell phone use must be "hands free" while driving. citation is $285.00, the law is written so that the local law enforcement agentcy writing the citation retains all funds generated by this law o they will be issuing this ticket as a sorce of revenue for local communities.

This was amoungst a memorandum issued by The California State Dept. Of Corrections to all employees because of the miles they drive on a daily basis, just wanted to pass it on.