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SIRIUS Satellite Radio is having a contest to Win your way onto Radio Margaritaville!

From Radio Margaritaville and SIRIUS Satellite Radio: Want your own chance to host a radio show on Radio Margaritaville? Give us your best DJ intro, and you could be on your way to Orlando to host a future RM show!

Call the request line and leave a message with your name, phone number, and then introduce your favorite Jimmy Buffett song like you are a Radio Margaritaville DJ. A panel of judges will pick three finalists who will fly to Orlando and each finalist will host an hour-long radio show live on Radio Margaritaville. At the conclusion of the three winners’ hours, Radio Margaritaville listeners will vote for their favorite.

Rules and details about the contest are available here

An article from Brandweek mentions Corona will sponsor Chesney’s upcoming tour: "Corona Goes Country With Kenny Chesney"

http://www.brandweek.com/bw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003670371

Chesney fills the void in the marketing mix that was created when Jimmy Buffett was signed last year by Anheuser-Busch to back Land Shark Lager, brewed by the Margaritaville Brewing company, which is actually A-B’s brewing facility in Jacksonville, Fla.

But Land Shark hasn’t taken a bite out of the Mexican brew, having sold less than 258,000 cases for the year ended Oct. 7, according to Information Resource Inc. Meanwhile, Corona Extra sales grew 2% during the same period to 40.6 million cases.

We’ve received word from a good source that the Jimmy Buffett will perform down under in Australia in either January of February of 2008.

The new Margaritaville restaurant at Westgate City Center in Glendale, AZ is set to have it’s soft opening on Friday November 16th.

Jimmy Buffett was nominated for a CMA Award in the category Musical Event for the song "Hey Good Lookin’" with George Strait and Alan Jackson. He lost out to Tracy Lawrence featuring Tim McGraw and Kenny Chesney with the song “Find Out Who Your Friends Are”.

Mac McAnally (guitar) also received a nomination in the Musician category, but Jerry Douglas – Dobro took the award.

Jimmy recevied a CMA Award in 2003 for Vocal Event of the Year for the song "It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere" with Alan Jackson. See list of Jimmy’s other CMA Award nominations.

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band performed the final show of this year’s tour last night at Ford Amphitheatre in Tampa FL. The Set List along with comments from the show are now available.

Jimmy came back and did one more song after the show had ended and the lights came on. He performed an acoustic version of "Tin Cup Chalice" to end this year’s tour.

A special thanks to every who helped out this year with posting the set lists from the shows!

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band performed last night at Ford Amphitheatre in Tampa FL. The Set List along with comments from the show are now available. Jimmy did an acoustic version of "Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season" to end the show, the song was last performed on Dec 5th, 2003 in Key West FL.

This year’s Bama Breeze tour concludes on November 3rd with a show from the Ford Amphitheatre in Tampa, FL.

Florida Governor Charlie Crist introduced Jimmy to the crowd as the show began. The Florida Times Union has an article: "Crist and Jimmy Buffett talk about manatees before concert"

Crist met privately with Buffett for about 10 minutes and then introduced him to nearly 20,000 fans at a concert, saying, "He has Florida in his heart and he loves her like I do."

"He (Buffett) said, ‘I just want to thank you for what you did for the manatees,’" Crist said. "And I said, ‘No, thank you. Thank you for doing so much for our state and looking out for our wildlife and our natural estuaries and caring so much about Florida.’"