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Jimmy Buffett played at the Margaritaville in Panama City Beach today at 5 O’clock!!!! It was Buffett, Mac McAnally, and the Barry Fish Band. Mac did a couple of songs and Jimmy played eight songs including Margaritaville and Cheeseburger in Paradise. Pictures are from the Pier Park’s Facebook page. (thanks to pcbfan and Parrot Bay)

Jimmy Buffett spent some time surfing in St Barts on March 26th and watching the St Barths Bucket Regatta.

Jimmy Buffett’s new live album “Encores” will be released on April 20th, 2010 (on Mailboat Records). The new live acoustic album will be comprised of the intimate final encore songs from concerts, many solo, and some with band members or special guests during the 2008 & 2009 tours.

The album will be available exclusively at Walmart.

The track list is now available:

DISC 1
01 . Come Monday
02 . Tin Cup Chalice
03 . Growing Older But Not Up
04 . Coast of Carolina
05 . Paradise
06 . Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
07 . Nautical Wheelers
08 . Trying To Reason With Hurricane Season
09 . Banana Republics
10 . He Went To Paris
11 . Last Mango In Paris

DISC 2
12 . L’Air De La Louisiane
13 . Reggaebilly Hill
14 . Coast Of Marseilles
15 . Lovely Cruise
16 . Oysters And Pearls
17 . Wildflowers
18 . Defying Gravity
19 . It’s A Big Old Goofy World
20 . Death Of An Unpopular Poet
21 . Blowin’ In The Wind
22 . A Pirate Looks At Forty

According to the Examiner.com Jimmy Buffett is on a list of performers being considered to perform at half-time during the 2011 Superbowl in Dallas, TX.

According to SportsByBrooks and their ‘inside source’ at the NFL and CBS, the Short List of acts being considered are: Kenny Chesney, Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw, Brooks & Dunn, and Jimmy Buffett.

According to a published report at SportsbyBrooks, Rene Zellweger’s former husband of exactly 4 minutes and 7 seconds—Kenny Chesney—is lobbying hard to be anointed as the Next Big Halftime Show, playing in front of a worldwide audience at the biggest sporting event of the year.

A Job Fair takes place April 8th – 11th for positions at the new Magaritaville Niagara Falls

Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Calgary, Alberta; Margaritaville Canada is the exclusive license holder of the Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville restaurant and retail franchise group across Canada.​ Working closely with our partners in the United States, Margaritaville Canada is committed to bringing the very escapist and vacation lifestyle made popular by Jimmy Buffett to each and every one of our restaurant guests, retail shoppers and “Parrotheads” across Canada.​

Only a stone’s throw from the crest of The Falls, Margaritaville Niagara Falls will open in May 2010 as the only “must see” destination restaurant in the region.​ Complete with a service standard guarantee and a promise to deliver the laid-back and chilled-out concert experience found at each of Jimmy’s concerts, Margaritaville Canada is very excited to announce the arrival of Margaritaville Niagara Falls!

JOB FAIR – 4 DAYS ONLY! – Apply in Person
April 8th to the 11th
Thursday to Sunday 10am to 5:30pm
Maid of the Mist Centre
5881 Dunn Street, Niagara Falls
NIAGARA FALLS

Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville is seeking the following professionals to be part of our island lifestyle: Line/ ​Prep Cooks, Dishwashers, Retail Sales Associates, Clerical Assistants, Restaurant Supervisors, Retail Supervisors, Servers, Bartenders, Host/ ​Hostess, Barbacks, Bus Persons, AV Techs, Stilt Walkers

From Margaritaville.com: Enter the Rootin’ For Newton Mush Your Way to Jamaica Sweepstakes! Newton Marshall became the first person from the Caribbean island nation of Jamaica to finish the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race as he crossed the finish line at 7:27pm AKDT – Read the story here.

Enter for your chance to win a VIP Jamaica Dogsled experience at Chukka Cove, plus access to any of the other Chukka Adventures that you want! Enjoy a $200 Gift Certificate to Margaritaville Ocho Rios and receive a 5-day/4-night all inclusive Funjet Vacations getaway for two to the beautiful Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort & Spa where you can enjoy five restaurants, eight bars, white sand beach, five swimming pools and the Lighthouse Waterslide. It’s all included! Enter Now!

Newschannel5.com has a report that mentions problems for the plan for the new Margaritaville Cafe in Nashville: “Historic Preservation Could Cause Hurdle For Margaritaville”

Plans to build Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville in Downtown Nashville has hit a snag. The building sits in the Broadway Preservation District and has to meet strict construction guidelines.

The Metropolitan Historic Zoning Commission staff found problems with some of the beach-themed restaurant’s signage and proposed glass wall that would replace the building’s windows.

The property owner said without the open windows Margaritaville would most likely not invest in Downtown Nashville.

Jimmy Buffett wrote a review of Herman Wouk’s new book “The Language God Talks: On Science and Religion” for Vanity Fair Magazine. You can pre-order the book at Amazon.com.

Herman Wouk is one of the wisest men I have ever known. In aviation the best information comes from pilots themselves, in airplanes, not from air-traffic controllers or meteorologists on the ground, in some big air-conditioned office. In his new book, The Language God Talks, Herman sends us all a most valuable pilot report, since it comes from a man whose remaining time on this voyage, he concedes, is rather short. It has been a long time since I sat down and thought about the big questions, such as “Who are we, really?” and “Why are we here?” I have always been more comfortable being tagged a court jester than any kind of philosopher, but I am glad that my old friend keeps his page-a-day commitment to himself, thus extending, in The Language God Talks, a pilot report that we can all use.

The CMT Crossroads show with Jimmy Buffett and Zac Brown Band debuts tonight on CMT at 10 PM Eastern time. Visit CMT for a schedule of other times the show will air.

Update: You can watch the full episode at CMT

Jimmy along with the Coral Reefers and the Zac Brown Band perform the following songs:

Toes
Son of a Son of a Sailor
Chicken Fried
A Pirate Looks at Forty
(Where the Boat Leaves From)
Free/Into the Mystic
Nobody from Nowhere
Margaritaville

From David: I went to the meeting in Hollywood, FL and saw the two presentations, Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort and the Planet Hollywood resort. About 200 people were there and probably 90% were for the Margaritaville plan. The Planet Hollywood attorney was arrogant and turned off the people.

If the Margaritaville Hollywood Beach Resort is approved with the vote on April 7th the opening would be ready by Dec 31, 2012.

The best points
1) The Margaritaville Resort plan give more money back to the city
2) The Margaritaville plan will only have two restaurants (to keep the local businesses still going).
3) It’s the FIRST hotel for the group (run by a strong hotel group) so people will flock to it just to see the first place.

The Margaritaville Plan calls for
350 guest rooms (42 suites)
A Margaritaville Cafe (400 seats)
It’s Five o’clock Somewhere Bar (150 seats)
Twelve Volt Bar
Retail, Spa, and Conference area (1500 people)
Poolside and cabana services

A landmark of San Francisco is under threat of demolition. Jimmy Buffett referenced the famous tropical bar during a spoken introduction to the song “Altered Boy” on his 2002 album “Far Side Of The World” (“…this particular song got it’s initial inspiration from a visit to the Tonga Room, in the beautiful Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco…”)

A grass roots preservation effort is under way, spearheaded by oddly enough, a competitor…

SAVE THE TONGA ROOM RALLY AT SMUGGLER’S COVE SAN FRANCSICO
650 Gough Street (at McAllister), San Francisco, California
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 from 5:00 pm until 7:00 pm

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – To all concerned San Franciscans, Tiki freaks, Dionysians and Sybarites, mid-century fans, and rum aficionados; come one and come all to a gathering at Smuggler’s Cove (650 Gough St. San Francisco, CA 94102) on Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010 starting at 5:00PM to sign a petition opposing the demolition of the Tonga Room to make way for a parking garage and yet more luxury condominiums. After you sign the petition, stay a while and enjoy a fantastic rum cocktail or two while you mix and mingle with like-minded people and listen to Exotica under the soft glow of Tiki torches and beachcomber lamps. Around 6:00 PM, Chris VerPlanck and Erica Schultz of S.O.S. Tonga will provide a brief update on efforts to save the Tonga Room and exhort you to contact your local supervisors and the president of the Historic Preservation Commission, urging them to designate the Tonga Room as a local San Francisco Landmark. Mahalo!

For more information, contact Chris VerPlanck at cvp73@yahoo.com

For more visit Tonga Room.com

From CMT “Jimmy Buffett, Zac Brown Band Reach Fever Pitch“: Just ahead of Friday’s (March 19) premiere of CMT Crossroads: Jimmy Buffett and Zac Brown Band, check out their enthusiastic collaboration on “Free/Into the Mystic.” Brown often performs a medley of his “Free” and Van Morrison’s classic “Into the Mystic” in concert, but here it takes on a giant new fullness with the addition of Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band. As the easygoing song swells to truly epic proportions, the two groups reach a collaborative fever pitch just as the country/jam rock/reggae mix peaks. Since both bands are used to that mix — with one foot on the beach and one in a pine forest — this could be one of the most natural Crossroads pairings yet.