Thursday, October 23, 2008

Jessica Star rocks with Last Tribe at Harlem’s Dinosaur Barbque on November 15th!

I’ll be fronting the smokin’ band Last Tribe once again at this AWESOME venue!

The show starts at 10pm and there’s no cover. There is great food at this place!

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Saturday, November 15th

10-1am

The Dinosaur Barbque

646 W 131st St. (behind Fairway market)

New York, NY 10027

212-694-1777

My Gizzi’s Coffeehouse appearance is cancelled although, the show will go on

hi folks,

I had to cancel my solo show for this Friday, Nov.7th at Gizzi’s Coffeehouse. 

Sorry if you planned on coming there to hear me! Come to the Dinosaur BBQ on the 15th and hear me with Last Tribe instead!

 

Jessica Star

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Jessica Star is having a baby boy!!!

Well, we got our 20 week sonogram yesterday in NYC and the baby is a boy! Looks very healthy, smart, funny and cute. Oh, it also looks very talented. It is so mind bending to watch a little person moving around in your belly! I mean, I’m aware of it and I know it’s happening inside me but when you actually see it on a monitor with those 3-D shots where you can really see it’s (his) features… Absolutely wild. The funny thing is, it’s the most normal thing in the world and that’s how every one of us got here! I watch so much sci-fi that sometimes when I think about birth and how women are the only way people are born onto this planet, it seems almost old fashioned. Like the test tube way of doing it and science taking over is the more “posh” way to create babies but, at this point and hopefully forever actually, babies are born through women. Nothing else can recreate the loving environment that a real mommy provides.

I’m hoping to glean some songwriting inspiration today from our sonogram experience yesterday. Oh, the baby was moving around the entire time we were watching it! A Very active New Yorker!

 

Jessica Star

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Jessica Star rocked with Jason Rosen’s “Last Tribe NYC” at the Red Lion tonight!

Wow! Just came home from the Red Lion show… Nice one. The band, “Last Tribe NYC” was SMOKIN’!!! We ripped it up for 3 hours on a Monday night. That crowd down there on Bleeker Street really knows how to have a good time!

My belly is growing and growing! I just saw the pictures from tonight’s show. It’s amazing how much your body can change in so short a time. I really am having a blast being pregnant. I was the girl who didn’t know if I ever wanted to have kids; it didn’t look all that appetizing as I looked around at people who were doing it but, I read somewhere lately that it’s God’s secret really that you never know how amazing the journey is until you’re on it. I believe that. We’re just beginning the journey and it’s amazing.

I think this was Nugget’s fifth gig so far. Yes, Nugget is what we call the little one inside. Of course, we’ll name it something more appropriate once it’s born!

Okay, it’s 4:14am and I am officially TIRED!





Good night fair reader,



Jessica

Monday, September 29, 2008

life in NYC

The Honky Tonk Angels show was FUN! I played solo for a half hour and had a great time doing it. I debuted two new songs: Boxes of Tears and Wild Rose. Yep, hopefully soon I’ll be able to add the video from these shows I’ve been doing onto my website and myspace!

And for all of you who haven’t heard yet…

I’m pregnant! As of now, I’m 17 weeks! Pretty cool. I’ve had three shows so far as a pregnant lady; one in Greenwich Village, one in Harlem, and one in the East Village. Thank God they make stylish maternity clothes! It’s relieving to me to be able to get really cute clothes as I grow bigger and bigger.

  I guess our baby is going to be a New Yorker! I have no desire to live anywhere else.  I love it here. I feel like I’ve thrived as a person and as an artist in this crazy environment.  I’m spoiled now too. Where as I used to shop at flea markets and garage sales, now I never find anything I actually want to have in my possession at those places; nothing used really. I have a theory about the clothes that you get used here in NYC compared to the ones on the west coast; I think the ones here are just more used and stinky. More likely my taste has just changed. Although, because there are so many stylish people here, every once in a while I’ll happen upon a stoop sale with ladies my size and find designer stuff like Betsey Johnson dresses, and they’re cheap! Those I pick up.

  I’m so happy to be home after so much traveling in late August and mid September.

We went to Burning Man, our annual pilgrimage, and as you can guess, I was super tired this year! I never even made it out on the playa at night to check out the art and the parties. Ah well, I was having my own inner party. I pretty much just hung out at camp, ate and slept. It was a hotttt year too. We left two days earlier than planned and thank God for that. There was a nine-hour dust storm on Saturday that pushed the burn back til like, 2am or so. We left on Friday. I’m so grateful for my intuition. We were in my favorite spot, Mt. Shasta, before and after Burning Man and that was awesome. It was our one-year anniversary of being married so we went up to the spot on the mountain where we had our ceremony. What a special place.

  We flew home for one week of sleeping (for me) and then flew out to Seattle for my best friends’ wedding near Port Townsend, WA. It was a beautiful wedding on the beach.  We flew home and it all added up.. All the traveling, all the socializing, I was so pooped! The Dixie Chicks said something about never plan a tour when you’re pregnant and I can totally see why. Just the plane flights are exhausting!

  I’m all better now and just very happy to be home without any big travel plans in the too near future. I just wanted to write a little more than I have been, let you in on a little bit of my life here in this wild city. I wish you, the reader, all the best and hope you’re enjoying your time on this fair planet.





Jessica Star

Monday, September 08, 2008

Jessica Star’s single,"What she is” is in rotation on American Country Radio Network!

Hi!

Things are definitely heating up here for my music!!! This is a radio show my newest song,” What she is” is on AND in rotation!!! Check out the show! Notice that my air date happens to be on the anniversary of 9/11. I dedicate this show to everyone who was affected by this tragedy. May we all experience greater and greater bliss in the times to come,



  Jessica Star



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The following is the playlist for the Ladies of Country Music Radio Show which will air on American Country Radio Network on 9/11. This new show will broadcast at 11 am and re-broadcast at 6 pm and 10 pm (Central Time).

To tune in click on the link below:



http://www.acrn.fm/listen





Thursday – 9/11/08:

Artists featured in this show are:  Jessica Star, Rustie Blue, Danielle Tucker, Natalie Logan, Tabatha and Southern Fryd, Kelly Lee, Valerie Borman, Tori Bigelow, Jenny Brooks, Shauna Faegan, Amanda Nagurney, Ashley McWalter, Ashleigh Cole, The Kelly J Band, Katy Kiefer, Sherry St. John, Sarah Vetrano

Sunday, September 07, 2008

Jessica Star sang at the Dinosaur BBQ in Harlem last night!

Last night I sang with Jason Rosen’s band at the Dinosaur Barbque up in Harlem. It was a lot of fun! We played for about 3 hours I think and ate some delicious food. We got video of the show, some of it good, some of it not so good depending on where my husband was standing with the camera due to the other audience members moving around and in front of it. I must say, I looked a bit like a lady pirate last night, all in black. The idea is to put some of the video up on my website and on myspace. This of course takes editing and converting and time so we’ll see if it happens and how soon.

We’re in town til next Wednesday when we fly off to Seattle for my best friends’ wedding on a beautiful island near Port Townsend, WA. They’re getting married on the beach! I still need cute shoes but the need for shoes always translates to me as the opportunity to acquire new cowgirl boots. Okay, maybe a beach wedding isn’t exactly perfect for boots but I think I can make it work. The tricky part is finding cute boots here in NYC that are REAL cowgirl boots, not just the style, but the real thing. The last good ones I got were in El Paso, Texas.

We’ve been home from the west coast for almost five days now. It’s kind of funny to be home for only a week and then fly off across the country again! It’s preparing me for touring!

Alright you readers!





Jessica Star

Saturday, September 06, 2008

Jessica Star is back from Burning Man 2008!

Hey! Whoo! We just got back from our ten-day trip out to Northern California and Black Rock City, Nevada! It was our one-year anniversary of being married and since we got married right on Mt. Shasta, we went back and celebrated there. We also visited my good friends who live nearby and swam in the most beautiful Castle Lake.

Our Burning Man trip this year was the shortest one ever! We were there all of two days! We got there Wednesday and left Friday. My brother came with us and it was his very first burn. We went back to Mt. Shasta for four more days after Burning Man and mostly slept and relaxed before coming back to our lives in NYC. Now we’re back to work and it’s soon going to be FALL!!! I play at the Dinosaur Barbque tonight, Sept.6th, with Jason Rosen’s band and then at the end of the month, Saturday, Sept.27th I’m playing solo at Banjo Jim’s for the “Honky Tonk Angels” show!

Rock on!

Jessica Star

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Jessica Star blogging after the Tuesday night jam, NYC

Good evening! I just got home from the jam at Kenny’s Castaways with Jason Rosen. I walked in- he called me on to the stage! I must remember to apply my lipstick BEFORE I walk in the club. So, I sang the first set with no lipstick, whatever. The microphone usually covers my lips anyway.

Tonight was fun and there were a lot of people down there. I went for a walk with some musicians and found a slice of pepperoni pizza… Why is pepperoni so darn good? It just is.

It’s late- 3am. I must go to bed now!



Other news? I just wrote a good tune called,” Boxes of tears”. It’s the second song on my new cd!





Kisses,



Jessica Star®

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

website construction! Live shows! Benefit jam!

My website is getting some lovely reconstruction! There is music on my site now! Soon we’ll be adding video! I’m very excited about this. 

Live performing has been great. I sang up in Harlem at the Dinosaur Barbque with Mo’Soul, which is Jason Rosen’s band. The audience was very supportive and they dug the music. The food there was delicious. The Tuesday night jams at Kenny’s Castaways are always fun. It’s a very cool venue and looks like the inside of a pirate ship. I’ve been learning new cover songs and it’s a good place to debut them.

I’m writing new songs for my forthcoming album (get it; 4th coming, it’s my 4th album!)

What else, what else? There’s a benefit reunion jam coming up next Monday the 14th here in NYC for a musician named Lorin Donadio. Here is the info:



Bobby Nathan Reunion Jam



July 14th, 2008

7pm

at The Underscore

1733 First Avenue @ 90th Street, New York, New York 10128

Cost : $20



This is the Reunion/Benefit jam for Lorin Donadio







That’s the news for now!



Jessica Star

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Jessica Star sings at Kenny’s Castaways for the Tuesday night jam and talks about it!

Tonight was a great time at Kenny’s Castaways. I have seven new songs that I’m singing with the band; Damn your eyes and Shakey Ground (Etta James), Groove me (King Floyd), Super Duper Love and Some kind of wonderful (Joss Stone), I want to take you higher (Ike and Tina Turner), and Do right man (Aretha Franklin). We played all of them tonight in preparation for our gig this Friday at the Dinosaur Barbque in Harlem. I have a feeling that show is going to be very fun.

 There’s a lot of energy in the air right now! Summer solstice just happened and it definitely feels like there’s more light!





Good night,



Jessica Star

Sunday, June 22, 2008

we saw John Rich and Cowboy Troy play in Atlantic City this weekend!

We went to Atlantic City this weekend and saw John Rich and Cowboy Troy ROCK Bally’s!!! The audience was mainly people who were gambling and then went to see the live show but there were some true fans in the house!!! MEEEE!!! I got the crowd up and rushing the stage! I mean, I know it was really the band but no one was dancing except yours truly and then two other righteous ladies joined me and then we danced to the front of the stage… On the third time we did this, all these people joined in! It was awesome. Two Foot Fred was getting down! They had a really good female duo with them called Jane Deere.

 We walked the boardwalk and eventually settled on diner food at Johnny Rockets. The next day after sleeping in pretty late, we ate at a posh spot on the boardwalk in the Trump hotel and then went down to the beach and were giddy as our feet sunk deeper into the sand, lapping wave by lapping wave.

 

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

I sang tonight at Kenny’s Castaway’s for the Tuesday night jam with Jason Rosen

I just got home from the Tuesday night jam with Jason Rosen now happening at Kenny’s Castaways. What a cool venue! Have you ever heard musicians refer to themselves as “pirates” or “pirate types”? Well, Kenny’s Castaway’s is like the inside of a big ship! The jam was fun and the regular crew of jammers were there. I went and got myself some chicken kabob afterwards and hopped in a cab to come home to beautiful Brooklyn.

 I am still working on writing my new cd! Geez, it takes time sometimes. I’m working on writing these very cool Country songs that have a lot of soul and directly reflect my own experiences. It is fun. This will be the first cd that I’ve done that was made as a complete album- starting from the songwriting. The others were compilations of songs I had written over the years. There might be a few old songs (old only to me since you haven’t heard them) that I put on the cd but mostly it will be brand new creations.



It’s late, goodnight!



Jessica Star



Did I mention that “Jessica Star” is now a registered trademark?





YEEHAW!!!!!!!!

Friday, June 13, 2008

Jessica Star playing at the Dinosaur Barbque, NYC

That’s right! BBQ and Soul music! I’m going to be singing with Jason Rosen at this Harlem spot on

Friday, June 27th from 10pm-1am.

This is going to rock....

646 W 131st St.

New York, NY 10027

212-694-1777

http://www.dinosaurbarbque.com/nycIndex.php 

Jessica Star playing at the Dinosaur BBQ, NYC

That’s right! BBQ and Soul music! I’m going to be singing with Jason Rosen at this Harlem spot on

Friday, June 27th from 10pm-1am.

This is going to rock....

646 W 131st St.

New York, NY 10027

212-694-1777

http://www.dinosaurbarbque.com