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Keep The Party Going Tribute Concert to Jimmy

March 11th, 2024


A star-studded tribute concert will be held next month in Los Angeles for Jimmy Buffett. The Coral Reefer Band will perform, along with many of Buffett’s friends and colleagues including Paul McCartney, Kenny Chesney, Zac Brown, Jon Bon Jovi, the Eagles, Eric Church, Sheryl Crow, and more.

The concert will be held Thursday, April 11th at the Hollywood Bowl.

Tickets go on sale this Wednesday at 10am through Ticketmaster.


Tagged in Tickets, Tour Dates

Watch Video Premiere of “University of Bourbon Street”

March 7th, 2024


Billboard.com has the exclusive premiere of the new music video for “University of Bourbon Street” from Jimmy Buffett’s final album Equal Strain on All Parts.

The video is full of scenes of Jimmy in New Orleans over the years, as well as footage from Jimmy in the studio and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band performing for the song.

The late Jimmy Buffett deeply loved New Orleans. After graduating from the University of Southern Mississippi, he moved to the Crescent City for a year and his time there informed the rest of his musical life.

He played New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at least a dozen times, adored New Orleans legendary composer/artist Allen Toussaint (who wrote a song called “I’m Gonna Hang with Jimmy Buffett”), recorded and toured with local icons The Neville Brothers, and when asked by a journalist if he thought “there would be a Jimmy Buffett if there wasn’t a New Orleans,” Buffett replied, “I don’t think there ever would have been.”

Watch the video now at Billboard.com.


Tagged in Music Videos

Buffett Cameo in ‘Life & Beth’

February 21st, 2024


In the new season of the Hulu series ‘Life & Beth,’ Jimmy Buffett can be seen strumming his guitar on a street corner while singing “I Will Play for Gumbo.”

From USA Today: “Amy Schumer on ‘infectious’ Jimmy Buffett, his ‘Life & Beth’ cameo as street singer”

Jimmy Buffett can be seen strummin’ his six-string in the new season of “Life & Beth.” Hulu’s slice-of-life comedy, loosely based on that of star/creator Amy Schumer, features the king of carefree choruses in the second of the season’s 10 episodes (now streaming).

For his “Life & Beth” cameo, filmed in New Orleans, the “Margaritaville” singer returned to his humble beginnings of busking in the streets of The Big Easy, a city he loved.

Schumer says she listened to Buffett’s music growing up: “It just made you feel like everything was going to be OK.” The comedian struck up a friendship with Buffett, his wife Jane Slagsvol and their daughter, Sarah “Delaney” Buffett about five years ago.

“A time when we were hanging out, I said, ‘You know, we’re shooting in New Orleans,’” Schumer remembers seated next to her onscreen love interest for the series Michael Cera. “I said, ‘Oh my God, imagine you were on the show.’ He said, ‘I would do it!’ I thought, ‘No, he’s just saying that.’ But he didn’t waver.”

Buffett picks on an acoustic guitar in khaki shorts singing “I Will Play For Gumbo” from his 1999 album “Beach House on the Moon,” and Beth drops some money in his guitar case for his performance. A title card at the end of the episode reads, “In Loving Memory of Jimmy Buffett, who got his start busking on the streets of New Orleans.”

Schumer says Buffett piloted in for the role.

“He used to fly himself around,” Cera says. “Incredible lifestyle.”

To see Buffett’s quick cameo, watch season 2 episode 2 at the 6 minute mark.


Tagged in Television

Buffett the Answer to Today’s Final Jeopardy

January 31st, 2024


On today’s Jeopardy! episode, Jimmy Buffett was the answer to the Final Jeopardy question in the category American Musicians.


(photo courtesy Peyton Martin)

Contestants Michael Menkhus and Erin Portman got the answer right and Ron Cheung missed it, putting Bob Dylan as his answer.

Jimmy Buffett has been the answer to many clues over the years, but this is only the second time he’s been the Final Jeopardy answer. The previous time was in 2008 with the question “In 2001 a 5,861-gallon version of this drink was served up at a Jimmy Buffett-owned place in Orlando.”

Take a look at the other clues through the years at J-Archive.


Tagged in Television

Florida Advances Bills to Honor Jimmy

January 11th, 2024


The Florida legislature has advanced two bills to honor the late Jimmy Buffett:

Buffett, the iconic Florida singer who died last year, wrote songs that drove tourists to the Florida Keys looking for sun, sand and relaxation.

Now the Florida Legislature wants to return the favor. A state Senate committee on Wednesday unanimously approved two bills to honor Buffett after watching a short video tribute to him.

“Margaritaville is just what Florida is all about. Jimmy Buffett is the icon of Florida. No one represents the open sun, beaches, music more than Jimmy Buffett and Margaritaville,” said Republican state Sen. Gayle Harrell, who sponsored one of the bills.

State Road A1A, the historic scenic highway that winds about 340 miles (545 kilometers) along Florida’s Atlantic Coast, would become Jimmy Buffett Memorial Highway under one bill. The other bill would create a specialty license plate with the word “Margaritaville” — a Buffett song that has become a nickname for Key West.

“I happen to prefer the one with the beach chair, the tree on the water and a plane,” Harrell said while showing the Senate Transportation Committee samples of suggested license plates. “But it’s missing a red parrot. We need to add a red parrot to that one.”

While the bills were enthusiastically received, Democratic state Sen. Tracie Davis couldn’t help express a little disappointment.

“I feel somewhat slighted that we don’t have margaritas up here,” she said to laughs.


Tagged in Personal/Family, Politics