June 19th, 2006Tickets for the Detroit show at DTE Energy Music Theatre on Tuesday, September 12th go on sale today at 10 am!
Click Here for the Ticketmaster link to purchase tickets.
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June 19th, 2006Here are a couple of pics of Jimmy at Miami Heat games. The picture on the left is from Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Finals and the picture on the right is from Game 5 of the Finals.
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Update: Buffett returned to his seat Sunday after a quick trip across the pond to watch the World Cup. He saw England play Trinidad and Tobago, then returned in time for the Heat game. His comment after watching the US-Italy game on TV: “And I thought NBA officials were bad. …”
Jimmy had a run-in with an NBA referee February 4th, 2001 where he was ejected from a game. Read the ESPN article about it here
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June 19th, 2006The Dallas Star-Telegram has an article on Buffett’s support of Kinky Friedman for Texas governor:
“I’ve known Kinky a long time,” said Buffett. “Since we were all hanging out, working together in Austin during the ’70s.”
“I think it’s very cool what Kinky’s doing,” Buffett said. “I like his original slogan: ‘It can’t be that hard.’ I think we need a sense of humor in government these days.”
“Rock ‘n’ roll,” Buffett said. “Every other aspect of the world has tried to run the country. “Why not us?”
Read the entire article here
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June 19th, 2006It’s The Ultimate Parrothead Prize Package!
One Parrothead will win a trip for two to Jimmy Buffett’s concert at the Tweeter Center in Massachusetts and a bunch of cool Jimmy Buffett swag. Best of all, the winner will guest on Radio Margariaville’s Pre-Show Backstage Broadcast, hosted by Jimmy’s daughter, Savannah Jane Buffett!!!
Interested? Here’s the deal: just sing your best version of a Jimmy Buffett song at 1-866-55-PARROT and keep it under 20 seconds. We’ll post the best five right here on this page, and then it’s up to YOU to decide the winner. You can enter starting on June 19 at 5 pm ET.
For more info, visit Radio Margaritaville on Sirius.
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June 16th, 2006Jimmy is mentioned in the Atlanta Journal Constitution article “Trinidad and Tobago scares England.”
The smallest country ever to qualify for a World Cup held the country that invented soccer to a scoreless draw for 82 minutes here Thursday night. Trinidad and Tobago couldn’t hold out forever, though. Two goals in the final 11 minutes gave England a 2-0 victory and a berth in the World Cup round of 16.
“It was a great match. We [just] ran out of gas,” Jimmy Buffett said.
Yes, that Jimmy Buffett. Two members of his Coral Reefer band are from Trinidad and Tobago, and he said his son was “raised by Trinidadian nannies.”
Read the entire article here.
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