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.

This collectors 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, an internationally renown reggea artist and owner of the Dune Preserve, the home of the annual Moonsplash reggae festival. 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 totaled$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. The institute which is accessible to all students through its scholarship and financial assistance programmes, presently caters to preschool and primary aged children. It is now constructing its own campus, using traditional Anguillian architecture, to create a nurturing learning village.

For more information on the Golf Tournament and the guitar, visit
www.omololugolfclassic.com and for more information about the Teacher Gloria
Omololu Institute, please visit www.omololu-institute.com.

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Billboard has an interview with Jimmy Buffett: “Buffett Busy With Live DVD, Tour, Kids Book”. He talks about how he’s been writing songs, but is not in any hurry to put out a new album:

Buffett is developing albums for younger artists, including Coral Reefer Band backup singer Nadirah Shakoor, for his Mailboat label. And his Year of Still Here Tour starts tomorrow at Lakewood Amphitheatre in Atlanta.

As for that next album, the follow-up to 2006’s “Take the Weather With You,” Buffett says that “the time it takes to write a book kind of produces an offshoot of you [wanting] to go back to something else.”

He adds that he’s been “listening to different things that inspire me musically, but I’m in no hurry to do (an album). I am writing songs; it’ll be interesting to see if I wait and get a collection of 12 of them together to do an album or go do four and put ’em online or something. The delivery systems now … it’s very interesting how you can put stuff out there, so we’ll see what feels like the best way to do it.”

Read the entire article here.

Jimmy Buffett is releasing a new DVD on June 3rd entitled “Scenes You Know By Heart”.

From Mailboat Records:

Jimmy’s CD, Songs You Know By Heart, came out in 1985, and has become one of his most popular releases. Jimmy chose the best live performances of those songs from his concerts all over the world for this unique DVD. Says Jimmy, “If you think about it, looking at the show on video is really the only way I get to see what you see. I have spent many enjoyable hours watching you and us have fun and have put together these scenes you know by heart.”

In addition to the 13 songs (listed below) from Scenes You Know By Heart, there are two bonus cuts, “Hey Good Lookin” and “It’s 5 O’Clock Somewhere”. In the packaging is a beautiful 12-page booklet with new photos in which Jimmy explains how the footage was chosen and provides “a few thoughts about what we do, and what we play that you might not be aware of.”

TRACK LIST

1. Cheeseburger In Paradise – from Mini Matinee, the Tiki Time Tour
2. He Went To Paris – from Paris
3. Fins – from Cincinnati
4. Son Of A Son Of A Sailor – from Live In Anguilla
5. A Pirate Looks At Forty – from Live At Wrigley Field
6. Margaritaville – from Live At Wrigley Field
7. Come Monday – from Live At Wrigley Field
8. Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes – from Live in Anguilla
9. Why Don’t We Get Drunk – from Live In Hawaii
10. Pencil Thin Moustache – from Noblesville
11. Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit – from Las Vegas
12. Boat Drinks – from Noblesville
13. Volcano – from Live In Anguilla
14. Hey Good Lookin’ – from Dallas
15. It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere – from Live In Anguilla

Pre-Order “Scenes You Know By Heart” now for $10.98 at Wal-Mart.com

Mailboat Records has a page up for the Live at Wrigley DVD. It has the complete track listing and also has audio clips of a few of the songs. The DVD will be released August 1st. You can Pre-Order now through Amazon.

Track Listing:

Bonus materials include exclusive behind the scenes footage and much more.

The Sun-Sentinel has an article describing how shooting of the Buffett-produced film “Hoot” is going so far.

The 15 million dollar production has been reasonably trouble-free.

“It’s unheard of,” director Will Shriner said with a delightfully cryptic smile. “We’re on schedule and on budget, and the studio has actually called to compliment me on what they’ve seen in the dailies.”

Read the whole article.