Sand Dollar Blues Room

The Sand Dollar Blues Room is a blues and gambling nightclub in Las Vegas, Nevada.

History

The club originally opened in 1976 as an ocean-themed restaurant in a small office complex about a mile from the Strip. The venue evolved into a blues club, and received a "Five Star" rating from Las Vegas Today magazine, the Review Journals' "Best of Las Vegas", and two years in a row, 2006 and 2007, AOL Cityguide' "Best Live Music".^{[citation needed]}

The club has been the subject of articles in Playboy magazine and featured in shows on the Discovery Channel, The Travel Channel and VH1.^{[citation needed]} America Online chose the Sand Dollar as one of the "10 Best Bars in the country".^{[citation needed]} It also has been listed in the AOL city guide's best of.^[1]

The venue has hosted the blues artists B.B. King, George Thorogood, and Jeff Healey. ^{[citation needed]}Rock guitarist Ted Nugent once performed an impromptu guitar duet with blues artist Joe Bonamassa in front of a VH1 film crew.^[2] Trip Hawkins, the founder of Electronic Arts hosted a bachelor party there.^{[citation needed]} Pop artist Taylor Dayne was once asked to perform a song.^{[citation needed]}

The Sand Dollar has been under new ownership^{[by whom?]} since January 1, 2010.^[2]