Jimmy Buffett performed at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on Thursday night and you can watch the performance tonight at 8 pm Central!

Tune in to the New Orleans JazzFest Webcast on May 6th at 8pm Central to watch Jimmy’s set from Thursday night! Check out other highlights and live streams throughout the weekend, then watch Jimmy, Mac McAnally, Eric Darken and Sonny Landreth end the broadcasts from the Big Easy on Sunday night!

You can watch the webcast at www.youtube.com/jazzfest

After performing at the New Orleans Jazz Fest on Thursday, Jimmy Buffett made a surprise appearance at his Margaritaville Cafe where Matt Hoggatt was playing a show.

Buffett joined Hoggatt on his “Dear Jimmy Buffett” song where they made up most of the lyrics as they went.

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Jimmy Buffett was back in New Orleans on Thursday night where he played an acoustic show with help from Mac McAnally and Sonny Landreth. The concert included the debut of a new song entitled “Serpentine”:

A new composition called “Serpentine” made its world premiere at Jazz Fest. It celebrated Mardi Gras with an ambling, bluesy arrangement: “Two weeks out of the year, it’s all about sin….count me in.”

The Times Picayune has a great writeup on the show:

Seated center stage, surrounded by an arsenal of stringed instruments, Buffett showed up for work barefoot, in shorts, a purple polo shirt, sunglasses and a baseball cap. At his side was Mac McAnally, a member of the Coral Reefer Band and an acclaimed country songwriter and instrumentalist. Lafayette’s Sonny Landreth, another frequent collaborator, alternated electric and acoustic slide on some songs; a percussionist also helped out.

With the Coral Reefer Band, he generally closes out a Saturday at Jazz Fest. There was far more available real estate at the Acura Stage for the unplugged, weekday Buffett show than last year’s fully amped, weekend show. He reveled in the change in latitude, if not attitude: “It’s great to be playing ‘locals Thursday’!”

Noting that “we’re playing a home game tonight,” he sprinkled his set with references to Werlein’s, Morning Call, Cochon, Frenchmen Street and his pal Sean Payton. “This is where it all started. New Orleans was my Paris before I got to Paris.”

Read the full article here.

While Jimmy Buffett was in Omaha last week he made a surprise appearance at a luncheon for college students hosted by Warren Buffett.

At the luncheon a “reserved” sign was posted across from Buffett and in between Schumacher and Inschauspe. Buffett excused himself from the UW table to address the entire luncheon crowd, announcing, “This has all been a setup. I am not the real Buffett.”

To the surprise of the crowd, in walked Jimmy Buffett, a close personal friend of the other Buffett.

With guitar in hand, Jimmy Buffett went to the end of the UW students’ table, put one foot up on a chair and broke into “Smart Woman (In a Real Short Skirt)” followed by “Margaritaville,” the song that made him famous.

“During lunch, we heard a few stories from their friendship, and learned that out of curiosity, they’ve checked through DNA tests to see if they were related — they’re not,” Schumacher says.

“It was so awesome to have Jimmy Buffett playing two feet in front of us and, on top of that, to sit right next to him and right across from Warren Buffett at lunch,” Inschauspe says. “By far, one of the best experiences in my life.”

Jimmy Buffett wasn’t planning on performing at this year’s New Orleans Jazz Fest, but after a cancellation by Eddie Vedder he’ll fill in on Thursday, May 3rd.

An acoustic performance by Jimmy Buffett will fill the Eddie Vedder vacancy Thursday, May 3 for the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival.

Buffett will play with Mac McAnally to fill the slot left open by Eddie Vedder, after Vedder was forced to cancel his set to heal nerve damage to his right arm.

Other acts scheduled for the day include Florence + the Machine, Esperanza Spalding, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Ani DiFranco and James Cotton.

Jimmy and Mac will play the Acura Stage at 5:40 pm.