Jimmy Buffett has released two summer tour dates today: Chicago and Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh, PA
First Niagara Pavilion
Thursday, June 28th

Chicago, IL
First Midwest Bank Amphitheater
Saturday, June 30th

Tickets for both shows go on sale Monday, April 2nd.

Jimmy Buffett will play a free show in New Orleans as part of the NCAA Final Four festivities, reports NOLA.com

Kiss, the Black Keys and Jimmy Buffett are slated to perform free concerts in Woldenberg Park along the Mississippi River in downtown New Orleans the weekend of the NCAA Men’s Final Four. The concerts are part of a full slate of festivities throughout the college men’s basketball championship weekend.

In recent years Buffett, a native of the Gulf Coast with close ties to New Orleans, has mostly limited his local performances to hugely popular appearances at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival presented by Shell, as well as impromptu sets at clubs and the occasional tailgate party. The mayor of “Margaritaville” is a passionate fan of the New Orleans Saints who often attends playoff games and turns up in the locker room. He’ll perform at Woldenberg on Sunday, April 1.

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LiveNation has a link to premier parking for Jimmy Buffett at the Comcast Center in Mansfield, MA.

The date listed is Saturday, June 23rd.

With LiveNation posting the parking page, an official announcement can’t be far behind.

(hat tip mindbenderzzz for passing this along)

Our forum moderator Jollymon345 (Dean) was listening to Radio Margaritaville this morning and reports that DJ Steve revealed some details on Jimmy’s summer tour. Rest assured, there WILL be a summer tour this year.

Here’s a rundown of what Steve said:

1. The Welcome to Fin Land Tour is running until April in the midwest.

2. The new tour will be starting in May.

3. Tickets and date announcements will be end of March beginning of April.

4. Jimmy will be doing a lot of songs that he hasn’t done in a long time. Since Peter Mayer said earlier during an interview that Jimmy may do more albums like Volcano Live 2011 and he brought up A1A maybe he will be dipping back to some older stuff.

5. Steve commented about how people have been emailing RM and asking about the new tour and thought that Jimmy was retiring. He said it was not true.

(H/T Dean for passing this along)

The ticket broker site Razorgator is showing a date for Jiffy Lube Live in Bristow, Virginia:

Saturday, September 1st

This happens from time to time where a ticket broker site will list a show before it appears anywhere else. More often than not it turns out to be correct, but sometimes they’re not. So keep in mind that this is not confirmed. Bristow is usually played on Labor Day weekend though, so it would keep with tradition.

(H/T Covington Fire)