Let summer officially begin! This weekend marks the beginning of the 2010 Under The Big Top Tour. Announced back in February, this year’s tour has 22 confirmed shows so far with the first leg beginning Saturday at the Ford Amphitheater in Tampa, Florida.

From there, Buffett will head to Atlanta on Tuesday, St. Louis on Thursday, and then on May 1st he’ll play Nashville for the first time since 2003.

As always, all shows will be broadcast on Radio Margaritaville on the web and on Sirius 31 / XM 55.

View the entire Under The Big Top Tour schedule here. Though most shows are sold out through TicketMaster, you can still find tickets through ticket reseller sites like Stubhub or TicketsNow.

Margaritaville.com has confirmed that Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band will perform at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Saturday, October 23rd.

Tickets go on sale Monday, April 26th at 10 am PT through TicketMaster

Book a hotel in Las Vegas now!

(H/T Billy Ray)

After the five shows that went on sale this morning, all announced shows have now gone on sale and many are sold out. In fact, many sold out within a few minutes of going on sale. According to Cincinnati.com, their show at the Riverbend Amphitheater sold out in six minutes this morning.

However, a quick check on all the shows this afternoon at 2:00 pm central time revealed that face value tickets through TicketMaster can be had to a lot of the shows still. We searched each show for two tickets with any price. The following shows had tickets available:

• Tampa, FL
• Atlanta, GA
• St Louis, MO
• Indianapolis, IN
• Houston, TX
• Frisco, TX
• Mansfield, MA (Thursday the 17th show only)
• East Troy, WI
• Camden, NJ (Tuesday the 10th show only)
• Pittsburgh, PA
• Chicago, IL
• Bristow, VA (Thursday the 2nd show only)

So if you tried right when they went on sale and got shut out, try again by clicking on the show above and you might still be able to score face value tickets. The primary reason for tickets becoming available after “selling out” is that some of the sales were rejected by TicketMaster for one reason or another and the tickets are then released back into the wild.

If the show you want to attend is not one of the shows in the list above, keep trying TicketMaster once a day or every other day and you might get lucky.

Another source for face value tickets is our Fun Ticket Transfer. It’s a section of our forum where fans can buy and sell tickets at face value. So be sure to browse the listings there.

If you still are having no luck, then you can get tickets through reseller sites like Stubhub, TicketsNow, TicketNetwork, or eBay, but you’ll have to pay substantially more than face value.

Tickets go on sale tomorrow morning for the remaining five announced Under The Big Top shows. Use the TicketMaster links below to go directly to the show page for ticket purchasing:

St. Louis, MO
Thursday, April 29th
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
TicketMaster Direct Link (on sale at 10 am CT)

Cincinnati, OH
Monday, May 17th
Riverbend Amphitheater
TicketMaster Direct Link (on sale at 10 am ET)

Frisco, TX
Saturday, May 22nd
Pizza Hut Park
TicketMaster Direct Link (on sale at 10 am CT)

East Troy, WI
Saturday, June 26th
Alpine Valley Music Theater
TicketMaster Direct Link (on sale at 10 am CT)

Wantagh, NY
Tuesday, August 21st
Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
TicketMaster Direct Link (on sale at 10 am ET)

Read our Ticket Buying Tips to help score your tickets. If you do get shut out, you can still purchase tickets through re-seller sites like Stubhub, TicketsNow, TicketNetwork, or eBay.

Good luck!

Tickets go on sale this morning for the following Jimmy Buffett shows:

Tampa, FL
Saturday, April 24th
Ford Amphitheater
TicketMaster Direct Link
On sale at 10 am ET

Atlanta, GA
Tuesday, April 27th
Aaron’s Amphitheater at Lakewood
TicketMaster Direct Link
On sale at 10 am ET

Nashville, TN
Saturday, May 1st
Sommet Center
TicketMaster Direct Link
On sale at 10 am CT

Noblesville, IN
Saturday, May 15th
Verizon Wireless Music Center
TicketMaster Direct Link
On sale at 10 am ET

Woodlands, TX
Thursday, May 20th
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
TicketMaster Direct Link
On sale at 10 am CT

Clarkston, MI
Tuesday, June 22nd
DTE Energy Music Theater
TicketMaster Direct Link
On sale at 10 am ET

Camden, NJ
Saturday, August 7th
Susquehanna Bank Center
TicketMaster Direct Link
On sale at 10 am ET

Camden, NJ
Tuesday, August 10th
Susquehanna Bank Center
TicketMaster Direct Link
On sale at 10 am ET

On Monday, tickets will go on sale for the remaining announced shows: St. Louis, Cincinnati, East Troy (Alpine Valley), Frisco (general on sale), and Wantagh NY through TicketMaster.