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From LuxuryRealEstate.com: duPont Registry will award a 6-night/7-day stay at an historic home in Key West, where famed musician Jimmy Buffett lived for 20 years, to a member of LuxuryRealEstate.com at the 13th Annual Luxury Real Estate Fall Conference in Philadelphia.

“For the serious fan of recording star Jimmy Buffett, this is a dream come true,” said Eric V. Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief of duPont Registry. “It’s a place that captures the hidden essence of the real Key West that inspired a lifetime of chart-topping musical favorites. Every step has been taken to ensure that items that were a part of Jimmy’s life here have been preserved. The result is a living museum that allows a privileged few who stay here a chance to experience the same lifestyle as the living legend who has captured the hearts and minds of so many.”

TXT Concerts and IOKA Entertainment is proud to present IslandFest, September 7th, 2008 at the IOKA Theater, 55 Water St. Exeter NH. IslandFest is a benefit concert to raise funding and awareness for the “Earth, Sea & Space Center”, a large scale, state-of-the-art educational center to be built on our Seacoast.

This spectacular concert features amazingly talented musicians from 3 bands with very diverse musical backgrounds. Club Trini, Peter Mayer, and Scott Kirby are scheduled to perform. The show also includes several artists currently touring as Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band including Michael Utley, Robert Greenidge, Ralph MacDonald, Nadirah Shakoor, Jim Mayer, Roger Guth.

Tickets are $39.00 general admission or $100.00 sponsor level ticket. To find more information or to purchase tickets visit www.nhislandfest.com and www.iokatheater.com or call 603-817-2202

Talk has begun for a possible Margaritaville restaurant in the entertainment district of Rosemont (near Chicago): “Margaritaville Restaurant In Rosemont?”

Representatives from Margaritaville, the laid back-themed restaurant of singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett, recently met with Mayor Brad Stephens about bringing an operation to Rosemont.

Stephens and Rosemont are working on plans to create an entertainment district along the east side of the Tri-State Tollway south of the Muvico Theater. Numerous ideas have been considered including a waterpark which Stephens Wednesday said has been scrapped. Should a Margaritaville Restaurant open in Rosemont it would likely be located in the entertainment district.

Interesting article on the first page of NY Times Sunday Style section: “Those Four Irresistable Strings“, with a history of the ukulele, giving Jake credit for the 2006 resurgence of its popularity. There’s also a brief interview and photo.

The Teacher Gloria Omololu Institute (TGOI) located on the beautiful Caribbean island of Anguilla, BWI invites you to bid on this genuine Jimmy Buffett and Bankie Banx signed Fender guitar package which includes the guitar, a hard cover case, a certificate of authenticity as well as the “Live in Anguilla” DVD that was filmed the weekend of the signing of this stunning guitar. Bidding on this item is now available on ebay.

This collector item is being auctioned for charity and is a left handed acoustic Fender with a rosewood neck and blonde Birchwood top and was donated to TGOI by Anguilla’s own international reggae artist – Banxie Banx. Bankie, who is the father of three TGOI students, is a long time friend of Jimmy Buffett, having performed with him in many concerts, including the Moonsplash 2007 “Stuck in Paradise” charity event. Jimmy Buffett magnanimously donated the proceeds of that concert, which totalled $120’000, to Anguillian charities.

The guitar was signed by Jimmy Buffett and Bankie during the the “Stuck in Paradise” concert and is made available as part of the 1st Annual Anguilla Invitational Golf Classic event, which aims to raise funds to support the nonprofit Teacher Gloria Omololu Institute, which fosters the holistic development of its students on moral, spiritual, physical, intellectual, emotional, and psychosocial levels, for over a decade.

Some more reviews from the Newport Folk Festival are available from the Newport Daily News:

Ukulele whiz Jake Shimabukuro jams for a capacity crowd Sunday on the Waterside stage. More than 15,000 people attended the two-day festival at Fort Adams State Park in Newport. (David Hansen/Daily News staff)

Review of the show: “Buffett shifts gears, turns on the power … Those expecting acoustic got something else

Also read a review of the show at Zuke’s blog: “Jimmy Buffett at the Newport Folk Festival”

Some photos are now available in the Photo Gallery (thanks to Joyce D and other for passing them along)

Jimmy’s boats “Continental Drifter III” and “The Last Mango” were spotted on Bannisters Wharf (thanks to Fitz for passing the photos along to us)

The Providence Journal has a review of Buffett’s appearance at the Newport Folk Festival: “Buffett brings heat to Newport, but everybody’s cool”

While Buffett reminded the Boston Globe this spring that he came up as a folk singer, said he might bring only one other musician and that “it won’t be a Parrothead show,” it did a pretty good approximation of one …

Festival associate producer Jay Sweet said that there had been a miscommunication of some kind with Buffett’s management — “it was a surprise that he brought the heat” — but maintained that “he put together a set list and a band that was appropriate for the Newport Folk Festival. … Was it a folk show? No. Was it a stripped-down version of a Jimmy Buffett show? Yes.” The band was somewhat smaller — Buffett left the horn section at home — but the electric guitars and drums still pounded away. And the audience (announced at 7,500) didn’t seem to mind.

Jimmy Buffett and most of the Coral Reefer Band performed at the Newport Folk Festival at Fort Adams State Park in Newport RI today. The Set List and comments are now available.

The set list was similar to others from the 2008 tour. One notable addition was “Elvis Presley Blues” with Gillian Welch and David Rawlings backing up Jimmy on vocals. The song was last performed live back on 11/3/07 in Tampa. Jimmy ended the show with a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind” (not known if Jimmy has previously performed it live).

Some photos are now available in the Photo Gallery (thanks to Joyce D and other for passing them along)

If you went to the show and have some photos to share, please upload them to the Photo Gallery or email them to info@buffettnews.com

Jimmy Buffett will be performing at the Newport Folk Festival on Sunday August 3rd at the Fort Adams State Park in Newport RI. He is scheduled to perform between 5:40 and 7:15 PM. Some of the other artists performing that day include Jake Shimabukuro and Gillian Welch. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased exclusively online at www.newportfolk.com or by calling (877) 655-4TIX.