The first Margaritaville Cafe in Canada is slated for Calgary’s just-announced $170 million Stampede Trail development:

Musician Jimmy Buffett’s first Canadian restaurant will anchor a new retail complex at the Calgary Stampede, developers announced on Thursday.

After years of land acquisitions in the neighbourhood of Victoria Park, the Stampede is going ahead with a major expansion.

Olympic Way will be renamed Stampede Trail and feature a $170 million development with stores, restaurants and office space.

Margaritaville, a chain restaurant owned by Buffett, will anchor the complex. Customers will be able to enjoy a 10,000-sq. ft. outdoor patio and live entertainment including stilt walkers and balloon artists, promised the chain in a news release.

Alberta Development Partners Inc., which is based in Colorado, has plans for the Stampede Trail development to include six buildings from 12th Avenue S.W. to the current Stampede gates.

Officials said Margaritaville should open in time for 100th anniversary of the Calgary Stampede in 2012.

Also see this article for more.

Update – Official site is www.margaritavillecalgary.ca

Radio Margaritaville with Sirius XM is giving away a week-long trip for two to Hawaii!

Hawaii beckons…and Sirius XM is giving one lucky winner and guest a week long VIP vacation to Jimmy Buffett’s at the Beachcomber in HAWAII! This once in a lifetime opportunity includes round trip airfare, 7 nights stay at the OHANA Waikiki Beachcomber hotel located in the heart of Waikiki. And, during their stay, the winner will also sit at a private VIP table at Jimmy Buffett’s at the Beachcomber and walk in with $500 in gift certificates to spend on Cheeseburgers, Margaritas and Mai tais!

The fun continues with a PRIVATE guided tour of Jimmy’s surfboard collection AND of his favorite surf spots with Honolulu Surf Museum curator Mark Fragale, an outrigger canoe surf ride for 2 and cocktails at “Duke’s on Sunday”. Enter NOW for your chance to win this amazing prize package! Hawaii is waiting!

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According to the Edmonton Sun, the first Margaritaville restaurant in Canada will open next year in Edmonton:

Look for a Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville Cafe to open in west-end Edmonton next year, full of boats and planes and the Key West atmosphere so celebrated in Jimmy’s tunes. It’s a happening chain stateside.

Jimmy Buffett has several Margaritaville locations in the US as well as locations in the Caribbean and Mexico.

The Honolulu Star Bulletin has an article on the Honolulu Surfing Museum, which was bankrolled by Buffett and is located adjacent to Jimmy Buffett’s At The Beachcomber restaurant in Honolulu, Hawaii.

The term “museum” is stretched pretty thin these days – a traditional museum is a hallowed, hushed sanctuary of artifacts, a library of reality, where you go to learn, to experience the real thing firsthand.

The Honolulu Surfing Museum, on the other hand, “isn’t so much about scholarship,” explains curator Mark Fragale. “We’re about fun!”

Being “about fun” pretty much sums up Jimmy Buffett’s entire business philosophy, and the parrothead entertainer bankrolled the site as an adjacent attraction to his Jimmy Buffett’s Restaurant at the Beachcomber Hotel in Waikiki.

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“Everything in here is from the personal collection of Mr. Buffett’s,” explained Fragale, a well-known surfing collector himself. “It began when he acquired the original surfboard used by Robert Duvall in ‘Apocalypse Now,’ and the owner had connections to the Santa Barbara Surfing Museum in California. Buffett also picked up the original balsa surfboard broken up in ‘Ride the Wild Surf’ and many other things from Santa Barbara. Jimmy Buffett has an incredible affinity for surfing and Hawaii culture, and he bought everything needed for the museum is one swell foop.”

Read the full article here and check out the official site for the Honolulu Surfing Museum at www.honolulusurfmuseum.com.

The Margaritaville Cafe in Phoenix will host a pre-party before Thursday night’s show at the Cricket Wireless Amphitheater:

Join us on Thursday from 11am-6pm at Margaritaville Glendale for live entertainment, great food, frozen concoctions and Jimmy Buffett ticket giveaways!