All Access Pass with Nelson Starr

(Apologies for the fact that this is essentially a verbatim press release regurgitation, but I’m busy. – BP)

Rock-n-roller Nelson Starr, who was featured on the Travel Channel trying to woo celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain to Buffalo, has plenty to be excited about. According to Bourdain’s official blog, the host of the hit Travel Channel program has decided to pay a visit to Buffalo after all! And Nelson Starr will be whetting Bourdain’s appetite with the debut of his own Buffalo-centric food show entitled, All Access Pass with Nelson Starr.

“The show is a fresh take on Buffalo food and dining” said Starr, “both in terms of how the food is presented and the unique production style used to showcase that content.”

Directed by award-winning filmmaker John Paget (”Almost Elvis” and “Alcatraz Reunion”) All Access Pass with Nelson Starr is the spin-off to Starr’s nearly successful bid to bring the hit program, “Anthony Bourdain – No Reservations” to the Queen City as part of a Travel Channel contest. Starr and Paget’s submission video became a runaway success at the Travel Channel website. Consequently, Starr was asked to appear in the “final four” elimination episode last year – a contest Starr ultimately finished as runner-up.

To build on that success, Paget and Starr have decided to launch their own food, dining, and music program entitled All Access Pass with Nelson Starr which will be available online starting this Friday, January 9, 2009. The premier episode will feature Starr’s visit to the relatively new Bistro Europa and the old-school lion of Buffalo fine dining, Oliver’s.

To help celebrate the launch, Starr will be making a special musical appearance this Sunday, January 11, 7 PM at Nietzsche’s (248 Allen St., in Allentown). Other very special guests and musical acts will be featured.

Starting this Friday, Paget and Starr’s new show All Access Pass with Nelson Starr can be viewed at http://www.truebluebuffalo.com/tv/. Additional programming will be phased in at their truebluebuffalo.com/tv site over the course of 2009.

For those wondering when the popular Travel Channel host Tony Bourdain will make it to the Queen City, Starr can only say that he “is sworn to secrecy” and that the episode may be filmed “sooner rather than later.”

Nelson Starr is a Buffalo musician, composer, author, and educator who is a member of the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame (see: www.nelsonstarr.com).

John Paget, also in Bufflalo, is an award-winning filmmaker (www.PagetFilms.com). Paget’s previous films include the much lauded “Almost Elvis” and “Alcatraz Reunion”, the latter for which Starr composed the original score. Additionally, director Paget and composer Starr are working to complete their second feature film collaboration.

(My past posts about Starr’s wooing of Bourdain are here and here and here).