A video from the upcoming CMT Crossroads show that Jimmy Buffett and the Zac Brown Band performing "Margaritaville" is available from CMT. The show premieres on CMT on Friday March 19th ...
Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort Proposed
There are plans for building a Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort in Hollywood FL (between Ft Lauderdale and Miami).
A public meeting discussing the details for the proposal takes place on Thursday March 4th ...
Tickets on sale for Under the Big Top Tour
Tickets are now on sale for all of the shows for the 2010 Under the Big Top Tour. You can visit our Tour Dates page for details.
Tickets go on sale on ...
Buffett taking time off in St Barts
Jimmy Buffett has been on vacation the island of St Barts for the past 3 days. He has been spotted at Baz Bar and his seaplane is at the airport in ...
Jimmy Buffett performed a few songs in the parking lot prior to the NFC championship game between the New Orleans Saints and the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.
It only goes to prove that you never know who you’ll meet in a parking lot outside a Saints game. Tailgaters crowded around a dusty flatbed stage under a freeway ramp Sunday were not only treated to a historic Saints victory. They also got to catch a couple of songs from Parrothead-in-chief Jimmy Buffett.
Local Y’at jukebox band the Creole String Beans were playing a tailgate party last Sunday afternoon on the back of a beat-up flatbed truck for the Down Undas tailgating club. While the band was on a break, a car drove up, delivering New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival producer Quint Davis and Who Dat fan Jimmy Buffett to the party.
Buffett climbed up onto the flatbed and discussed possible covers with the band. They settled on the Frankie Ford classic, “Sea Cruise.”
“He added special lyrics of ‘Who Dat’ and ‘Drew Brees,’” Savoy said. “Overall he rocked it, the crowd went wild and swelled to triple its original size. The official oyster shucker, Shukah Khan, offered him a raw oyster between verses. He borrowed a guitar and said, “‘Margaritaville’ in D.”
IT BEGAN IN 1982 when I took Jimmy Buffett to perform in Tahiti at the O’tac in Papeete. After the show Monte Brown, a friend from Kona who was GM of Hotel Bora Bora, invited our party to spend a few days at his beautiful hotel. While there, we all enjoyed an evening at the island’s newest restaurant, Bloody Mary’s.
It finally happened … after Jimmy’s surprise concert at Jimmy Buffett’s at the Beachcomber in Waikiki, we headed for Tahiti for the show’s last weekend at Bloody Mary’s. Thanks to managers Craig Gould and Rick Guenett, and owner Dexter Hewett, all proceeds from ticket sales are being donated to build a playground for the children of Bora Bora. And thanks to another dear friend Francis Teai, the Tahitian government provided the best technical equipment to make it a truly first-class presentation. And Gabilou flew in from Papeete to provide a special introduction.
Needless to say, it was very special with Jimmy concluding his performance with a rousing One Particular Harbor.
“Walking to New Orleans” is Paul Leslie’s 330 mile walk from the Margaritaville Cafe Panama City Beach in Florida all the way to an undetermined location in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana. Paul will be walking from January 31, 2010 to February 14, 2010 to raise money to help rebuild the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans still recovering five years after Hurricane Katrina. The walk has been mentioned on over 60 radio stations nationwide as well as in newspapers, magazines, and on television.
Miles Hampton of Radio Margaritaville will be presenting an interview with Paul Leslie on Saturday, January 23, 2010 during the 7PM to 1AM (ET) slot. SIRIUS 31 / XM 55 / Dish Network Channel 6031. Or you can listen from anywhere in the world on http://www.radiomargaritaville.com
Dennis King (DK the DJ) will be presenting an interview with Paul Leslie on the Island Time radio show on Monday, January 25, 2010 from 10PM to 1AM on WBWC the Sting 88.3. Hear the webcast worldwide http://www.wbwc.com
According to a report by Poker News Daily Jimmy Buffett will be attending the NFC Championship between the New Orleans Saints and the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.
This weekend, the New Orleans Saints will host the Minnesota Vikings in the NFC Championship Game. Kickoff is scheduled for 6:40pm ET on Sunday and the game will air on Fox. Among those in attendance will be 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event runner-up Darvin Moon.
Moon will be seated in a luxury box in the Louisiana Superdome, home of the Saints, alongside several top-tier names. Headlining the list is singer Jimmy Buffet, whose bevy of hit singles include “Margaritaville,” “Changes in Latitude, Changes in Attitude,” “Cheeseburger in Paradise,” and “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere,” which he recorded with country superstar Alan Jackson. Buffet’s career has spanned 40 years and resulted in a bevy of chart-topping hits. He even has his own restaurant chain, Margaritaville, which has a location inside the Flamingo on the Las Vegas Strip.
Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Cafe has selected Niagara Falls as the site for its first Canadian restaurant. Margaritaville Canada Ltd. has signed a lease with the owners of the Skylon Tower to open the 14,000-square-foot, two-story restaurant on Fallsview Avenue, across from the Niagara Fallsview Casino and Resort.
Margaritaville is scheduled to open by late spring or early summer, said George Davidson, Margaritaville Canada president and chief executive officer.
The restaurant is moving into the site of the former Wolfgang Puck’s Cafe, which closed last summer.
The naming rights for the stadium that the Miami Dolphins play in have been given to Sun Life Financial for $7.5 million per year for 5 years. This ends the one year deal signed in May 2009 with Jimmy Buffett for Landshark Stadium.
Dolphin Stadium has another new name, but this one should last for the next five years. The Dolphins have reached agreement with Sun Life Financial — a Canadian financial-services company — to rename their home Sun Life Stadium just in time for the team to host the Pro Bowl on Jan. 31 and the Super Bowl on Feb. 7.
The stadium last season was named Land Shark Stadium, after the beer marketed by Jimmy Buffett. The stadium was named Joe Robbie Stadium after then-owner Joe Robbie when it opened in 1987. It later was known as Pro Player Park (when a clothing line bought the naming rights), Pro Player Stadium, Dolphins Stadium and Dolphin Stadium.
Stanton passed along to us a report on the Saturday night’s show in Tahiti: Jimmy Buffett played a second show at Bloody Mary’s on Bora Bora on Saturday night January 16. Though the show was sold out to capacity, the club swelled to twice it’s normal occupancy. The kids are gonna get their playground! Tahitian music legend John Gabilou introduced Jimmy for a second night and moved the crowd at mid-break with a love song of Bora Bora. The Tahitian choir made a repeat appearance on “One Partucular Harbour” and rocked the house. This will go in the books as one of Jimmy’s best club performances.
Here is the setlist:
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Stars on the Water
Boat Drinks
Honey Do
It’s Five O’clock somewhere
Come Monday
Son of a Son of a Sailor
I Used To Have Money
Cheeseburger (9 girls onstage tonight)
Banana Republic
Bora Bora with John Gabilou
Jolly Mon
Volcano
L’aire de la Louisianne
Back Where I Come From (Mac McAnally)
Southern Cross
A Pirate Looks At Forty
Fins
Margaritaville
One Particular Harbour (with choir)
Jimmy Buffett played to a sold out crowd at Bloody Mary’s on the island of Bora Bora, Tahiti last night. With him were Reefers Mac McAnally, and Robert Greenidge. It had been 28 years since Jimmy last played the club, when he was in Tahiti recording the album One Particular Harbour. To commemorate that history a Tahitian choir joined Jimmy onstage for the title track. It was magic. The club’s capacity was about 88. Jimmy will play a second show at Bloody’s on Saturday night. The shows are a fundraiser to build a playground for local school. (thanks to Stanton for passing this along to us)
Some of the songs played:
Chanson Pour Les Petites Enfants
California Promises
Why You Wanna Hurt My Heart
I Used To Have Money One Time
Cowboy In The Jungle
I’m Growing Older But Not Up
Some Enchanted Evening (From South Pacific) View the complete set list
According to an article on ESPN Jimmy Buffett will be attending the Super Bowl Brunch hosted by Mario Batali on February 6th. For more information visit The Moyer Foundation.
Super chef Mario Batali is everywhere. He runs more than a handful of restaurants in New York and Los Angeles. He appears on Food Network as an Iron Chef. And he hangs out with U2 and Coldplay.
Batali, along with Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Jamie Moyer, will be putting on “Super Bowl Super Brunch” at the Viceroy Hotel in Miami Feb. 6. Comedian Jimmy Fallon, musician Jimmy Buffett and chef Emeril Lagasse are among the celebrities at the brunch and cooking demonstration which benefits children’s charities The Mario Batali Foundation and the Moyer Foundation.
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Saturday, February 6th, 2010
Club 50, Viceroy Hotel - Miami, FL
An intimate, exclusive venue open exclusively to residents and hotel guests only
11AM- 2PM - poolside
* Gourmet brunch, cocktails - menu designed by Mario Batali
* Food demos with Mario and Emeril Lagasse!
* LIVE entertainment by Bernie Williams
* Auctions
From Margaritaville.com: Jimmy is asking all Parrotheads to help Haiti by texting the word “haiti” to 90999 to make a $10 donation to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief.
Jimmy Buffett has played Martin guitars for decades - and it’s been some party. C.F. Martin & Co. has acknowledged his loyalty twice: in 1998 with the Martin HD-18JB Jimmy Buffett Signature Edition, a classic stage/studio guitar offered in an edition of 424 that sold out immediately, and in 2003 with the Martin 000-JBS Jimmy Buffett Shellback and 000-JBP Jimmy Buffett Pollywog Signature Editions, “off-shore” (as in sailboat-ready) guitars that totaled 168 and 305, respectively.
As Buffett recently pointed out, the one namesake guitar Martin hadn’t yet built for him was a “beach” guitar; a small, sturdy guitar to play at beach with friends and one that would bring that fun, carefree “beach” spirit wherever it went. So under Jimmy’s guidance - Martin Guitar is pleased to introduce the LX Jimmy Buffett.
The Martin LX Jimmy Buffett guitar features the same “go everywhere” design and materials as the popular and fine sounding LXM “Little Martin;” a modified 0 14-fret shape and short 23-inch scale, with an HPL body matched to Sitka spruce top bracing, a modified low oval Stratabond neck, tropical hardwood fingerboard, and Micarta belly bridge.
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