As another new year rings in, let’s take a look back at what happened in Margaritaville this past year.

January

• Jimmy made another cameo appearance on the CBS show ‘Hawaii Five-O’
• The Cubs visited the White House to celebrate their World Series championship and Jimmy was in attendance
• In late January, Jimmy performed at the opening of the Margaritaville Casino in Tulsa

February

• About half of Jimmy’s 2017 tour dates were announced in the month of February
• It was announced that a Margaritaville retirement community is planned for Daytona, Florida

March

• The dreaded news dropped in March that Buffett would not play Alpine Valley in 2017
• Buffett warmed up for the 2017 tour with a show at the Belly Up in San Diego
• The first Margaritaville in California opened at the end of March in LA’s Universal City Walk and Jimmy performed at the opening

April

• Jimmy opened the 2017 I Don’t Know Tour in Las Vegas on April Fools Day
• With announcements of Margaritaville retirement homes, our annual April Fools joke was that Buffett would open a chain of Margaritaville Funeral Homes, with the first across the street from the Margaritaville retirement homes
• Buffett headed Down Under where he played shows in Australia and New Zealand
• Buffett played shows in Las Vegas, Byron Bay, Wellington, and Christchurch

May

• At Jazz Fest in early May, Jimmy joined Dave Matthews on stage during his set
• Escape to Margaritaville the musical debuted at La Jolla Playhouse
• Buffett played shows in Charleston, Orlando, West Palm Beach, Virginia Beach, and Bristow

June

• One Particular Harbour and Marina in Bradenton is announced
• Buffett played shows in Tampa, Orange Beach, Houston, and Frisco

July

• It’s announced that Tan-Tar-A Resort in Lake of the Ozarks will be rebranded as a Margaritaville resort
• ‘Escape to Margaritaville’ the musical moves to Chicago
• Buffett played shows in St Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, and at Wrigley Field

August

• Forbes detailed Buffett’s business empire, finding that Margaritaville generates $1.5 billion in annual sales and has $4.8 billion in the development pipeline
• Jimmy boarded an ocean research vessel off the coast of Montauk, NY and one of the sharks they tag is named JD after Jimmy’s grandfather
• Buffett played shows in Toronto, Wantagh, Camden, and Mansfield

September

• Jimmy appeared as himself on an episode of NCIS: New Orleans with Scott Bakula
• Buffett appeared on The Today Show to talk about ‘Escape to Margaritaville’ the musical and also discussed what to do with your wedding ring and photos from a previous marriage
• Buffett made his annual trek to Paris, playing three shows at La Cigale

October

• Buffett played shows in Vancouver, Eugene, San Francisco, and San Diego

November

• Buffett played a show in Honolulu
• Mac McAnally won CMA Musician of the Year for the ninth time
• Lin Manuel Miranda joined Jimmy onstage at the ‘Escape to Margaritaville’ musical in Chicago
• It was announced that Jimmy and The Eagles would team up for stadium shows in 2018
• Mac McAnally suffered a heart attack in mid-November
• Buffett films scenes for upcoming movie ‘The Beach Bum’ with Matthew McConaughey
• Jimmy, Kenny Chesney, and Toby Keith play a hurricane relief benefit show in Tallahassee
• Buffett releases ‘Buried Treasure’, a collection of previously unreleased songs from his early days

December

• Buffett hands out burgers at the Broadway box office opening for ‘Escape to Margaritaville’

• Buffett played at the Margaritaville Key West where recent Alabama senator-elect Doug Jones was in attendance
• Jimmy turned 71 years old on Christmas Day
• Buffett plays a New Years Eve show in Nashville

We hope you had a terrific 2017! Thanks for visiting and reading BuffettWorld. We’ll keep bringing you all of the Jimmy Buffett news in 2018. Happy new year!

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Another year is nearly in the books and for parrotheads it saw another busy tour from Jimmy, multiple Margaritaville restaurant and resort openings, a new Christmas album, and a special birthday milestone. Relive 2016 with our annual Year in Review:

January

• Several tour dates had already been announced by mid-January with tickets going on sale later in the month
• In an email to the Miami Herald, Jimmy shared a remembrance of his good friend Glenn Frey, who died in January

February

• It was announced in early February that the Escape to Margaritaville musical will debut in San Diego in 2017
• Jimmy made a surprise appearance at The Ryman in Nashville, teaming up with Jenny Lewis on a cover of “Handle With Care”
• By mid-month, nearly every spring and summer show had been announced
• Jimmy went for a demo ride in the new Icon A5 amphibious airplane

March

• Jimmy and his wife Jane were spotted at the Vanity Fair Oscars after party
• President Obama made a trip to Cuba in March and Jimmy also went along where he attended a baseball game between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Cuban National team.

Jimmy Buffett talks with fans at US Cuba baseball game. @BBCNewsUS pic.twitter.com/GhNISUAcsJ

— Regan Morris (@reganmorris1) March 22, 2016

April

• Our annual April Fools Joke, that Jimmy endorsed Donald Trump for president, hooked many BuffettWorld visitors. Later in the year, Buffett campaigned for Hillary Clinton

• Jimmy played a private show at The Masters golf tournament
• After North Carolina passed the controversial “bathroom bill,” Jimmy released a statement where he referred to it as a “stupid law” but said he’d still play his two planned shows in the state
• Buffett played his first show of 2016 in Virginia Beach, VA. The show was considered a continuation of 2015’s Workin’ ‘N Playin’ Tour
• Jimmy also played shows in Birmingham, Raleigh, and Charlotte
• The governor of Mississippi signed into law a bill naming a stretch of Pascagoula beach after Jimmy

May

• Jimmy kicked off the 2016 I Don’t Know Tour in Austin, Texas with a performance at Austin City Limits Live
• Buffett implemented the “Door Number Three” contest where fans could vote on rare songs for Jimmy and the band to play each night
• Alan Jackson joined Jimmy on stage at his show in Nashville where they sang “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” together
• Shows were also played in Frisco, TX and Orange Beach, AL

June

• Jimmy played shows in Atlanta, Houston, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, and a second Chicago show at the House of Blues
• “Margaritaville” is inducted into Grammy’s Hall of Fame 2016
• The Margaritaville Biloxi Resort opened

July

• Jimmy opened his first Margaritaville in Texas with a location in San Antonio
• Buffett attended the US premiere of the latest “Jason Bourne” film that his friend Frank Marshall produced
• At the end of the month, Jimmy performed on The Today Show as part of their summer concert series

August

• Jimmy caused a little bit of a stir in TV land when he said in an interview that Hawaii Five-O would be ending after the next season
• Buffett played on the beach in Atlantic City to as estimated 20,000 parrotheads
• Shows were also played at Boston’s House of Blues, Bangor, Mansfield MA, Pittsburgh, Wantagh NY, and Camden, NJ
• At the Wyndham Championship golf tournament, Jimmy played at the temporary Margaritaville bar
• The Margaritaville Casino in Tulsa opened its doors
• Jimmy performed with Bon Jovi and Paul McCartney at a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in the Hamptons

September

• The St Louis Cardinals hosted a Jimmy Buffett Night at Busch Stadium
• A Margaritaville restaurant opens in the Mall of America in Minneapolis
• Buffett played shows in Omaha, East Troy WI, and two gigs in Paris

October

• Jimmy released “Tis The SeaSon,” his second holiday album, at the end of October
• Buffett played shows at Red Rocks in Denver, Las Vegas, San Diego, Sacramento, and Irvine CA
• After some west coast shows in October, Jimmy flew his jet north to Alaska and then on to Japan where he played a couple shows for service members stationed there

Surfing Okinawa!? That was cool

A photo posted by Jimmy Buffett (@jimmybuffett) on Oct 27, 2016 at 8:25pm PDT

November

• On his way back from Japan, Buffett filmed some Hawaii Five-O scenes, reprising his role as helicopter pilot Frank Bama
• Buffett performed at a Get Out The Vote Rally featuring vice president Joe Biden in St Petersburg, Florida the day before the election

December

• Jimmy performed music from his new holiday album “Tis The SeaSon” on The Today Show
• Buffett joined James Taylor and Sarah MacLachlan for a show in Brooklyn
• On Christmas Day, Jimmy turned 70 years old

We hope you had a wonderful 2016! Thanks for visiting BuffettWorld and we’ll see you in the new year!

In just a couple days it’ll be 2015, so let’s take a look back on Jimmy Buffett news in 2014.

January

• Jimmy performed at a fundraiser to restore Miami Marine Stadium
• On a hop around Jamaica, Jimmy dropped in to his Ocho Rios and Montego Bay Margaritaville locations
• Dan Patrick was interviewing Warren Buffett on his radio show when Jimmy called in too
• The first spring tour dates were announced on January 24th: Tampa and West Palm Beach in April
• Jimmy attended the Battioke charity event put on by the Miami Heat’s Shane Battier where he sang “I Heard It Through The Grapevine” with Pat Riley
• In an interview with Beaches, Resorts, & Parks, Jimmy revealed that he’s working on a new book

February

• The first week of February saw several spring and summer tour dates announced, and by the end of the month nearly the entire tour schedule was out with tickets on sale
• Jimmy performed with Zac Brown at the ForEverglades Benefit
• The Margaritaville in Destin, Florida opened its doors on February 17th
• On a swing through San Francisco, Jimmy sat down with Tekzilla to talk about technology

March

• Jimmy played a couple of small shows in Australia

April

• Though most of you recognized it as a joke right away, we did manage to fool a few with our annual April Fools Joke: “Buffett to Launch ‘Margaritaville Pleasures’ Adult Products”
• On April 11th, longtime Buffett friend and collaborator Jesse Winchester died after battling cancer
• Jimmy wrapped up the Songs From St. Somewhere Tour with shows in Tampa, West Palm Beach, Raleigh, and Charlotte
• The Margaritaville chain of restaurants was sold to the Brazil-based International Meal Co.

May

• On May 2nd, Jimmy visited the New Orleans Jazzfest where he walked around anonymously in a ball cap and sunglasses and enjoyed some of Prejean’s Restaurant’s pheasant, quail and Andouille sausage gumbo
• On May 3rd, Jimmy joined Allen Toussaint on stage at Jazz Fest for a couple of songs
• Jimmy launched Margaritaville.TV in late May to coincide with the start of the This One’s For You Tour
• The May 24th concert in Virginia Beach kicked off the This One’s For You Tour and also was the first show to air live on Margaritaville.TV
• Jimmy performed at Chastain Park Amphitheater in Atlanta, a venue he hadn’t played at in 27 years
• Shows in Houston and Austin, TX rounded out the first leg of the new tour

June

• The This One’s For You Tour made stops in Frisco, Fort Worth, Cleveland, Indianapolis, and Chicago
• Margaritaville Pigeon Forge opened its doors on June 16th
• Jimmy was “way too excited the Heat are losing” when he was shown on television during an NBA Finals game in Miami
• On June 17th, Jimmy appeared on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon as they taped a week of shows in Orlando
• It was reported that Jimmy and his wife Jane dropped a few million on a home in Beverly Hills, CA
• Jimmy’s June 19th performance at the Coyote Drive-In in Fort Worth was simulcast to drive-ins around the country
• The Orlando Business Journal noticed that Jimmy’s Margaritaville Enterprises had filed a trademark application for the term “Coral Reefer” to be used to sell goods and services related to electronic cigarettes

July

• Jimmy made tour stops in Bethel NY, Mansfield MA, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, and Detroit

August

• Buffett plays shows in Bristow VA, Camden NJ, Wantagh NY, East Troy WI, and Hershey PA
• Jimmy played a free show in Hermosa Beach as part of the Discovery Channel’s Shark Week FinFest
• As the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge spread around the world in the summer, Jimmy was challenged by his daughter Savannah and several others

September

• On September 15th the Margaritaville Casino in Biloxi closed its doors after only two years of operation
• Jimmy made his annual trek to Paris where he played two shows at La Cigale

October

• Jimmy made a west coast swing in October, played shows in Santa Barbara, Las Vegas, Portland, and Berkeley CA
• On October 8th, Jimmy was in San Francisco at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit where he asked the Spotify CEO for a raise
• A week before the midterm elections, Jimmy played a get-out-the-vote rally for Florida congressional candidate Gwen Graham. She would go on to win the election, unseating incumbent Steve Southerland
• From his home in Florida, Jimmy recorded a video expressing his support for two Florida ballot initiatives: the Florida Water and Land Conservation Initiative, and the Florida Right to Medical Marijuana Initiative. The Water and Land initiative passed, but medical marijuana was voted down on election day

November

• Mac McAnally set a record with his seventh consecutive CMA Musician of the Year Award

December

• Jimmy was mentioned at the daily White House press briefing on December 3rd
• It was announced that a Margaritaville restaurant will be added to the Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Escape in 2015
• Jimmy sat in with Anders Osborne at Tipitina’s in New Orleans December 6th



• After leaving New Orleans, Jimmy dropped in on his hometown of Pascagoula, MS where he dined at a local eatery
• On December 25th, Jimmy celebrated his 68th birthday

Thus concludes our wrap of Jimmy Buffett news for 2014. What was your favorite Buffett story or memory from the year?

As always, thanks to you our loyal visitors for stopping by BuffettWorld again this year.

Happy New Year!

In the year that Jimmy Buffett turned 67, he showed no signs of slowing down. Here’s a look back at 2013. What was your most memorable Buffett experience of the year?

January

• Jimmy was referenced a couple times in an episode of the hit CBS sitcom “How I Met Your Mother”
• A rumor dropped that a Margaritaville restaurant is coming to Syracuse. There’s been no additional rumors or info since

February

• Jimmy warmed up for a February Florida tour swing with a show at the Bamboo Room in Lake Worth, FL
• A Florida tour swing included shows in Sunrise, Pensacola, and Jacksonville
• In early February, Jimmy announced his new album and tour name, Songs From St. Somewhere
• At the Pensacola show, Jimmy played a special “Gulf Coast Set”
• Buffett’s yacht, the Continental Drifter III, was listed as available for charter for only $65,000 per week (plus expenses)
• The first spring tour date was announced on Feb. 11th, a stop at FC Dallas Stadium in Frisco, TX
• Most of the spring and summer schedule was announced with tickets going on sale a few days later
• Jimmy and his wife Jane attended the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in LA


Jimmy, Cristoph Waltz, and Michael Douglas. photo Jeff Vespa

March

• Jimmy recorded a video congratulating the Zac Brown Band on their Grammy win:
• Margaritaville Cincinnati opened March 4th
• It was announced that the former Renaissance Grand Beach Resort on St. Thomas would be given new life as a Margaritaville Resort


Jimmy in St. Thomas unveiling plans for the first Margaritaville Vacation Club

• Jimmy recorded another guest appearance on Hawaii Five-0
• A Margaritaville casino resort addition was announced for the River Spirit Casino in Tulsa
• Jimmy revealed that he is a co-producer of the Broadway musical Big Fish

April

• Our April Fools’ joke, Buffett to Build Theater in Branson, fooled a lot of folks, and even garnered a write-up in the Branson newspaper: “Branson gets April Fool’s joke”
• Jimmy’s second guest appearance on Hawaii Five-0 aired on April 15th
• Buffett kicked off the Songs From St. Somewhere tour in Nashville on April, debuting four new songs

May

• The May 2nd show in Austin was postponed one day due to high winds and cold temperatures
• Savannah Buffett interviewed her dad at the New Orleans Jazz Fest
• A new Margaritaville opened in Atlantic City and a location in Destin, Florida was announced
• Alabama Democrats tried to lure Jimmy’s sister Lucy (Lulu) into running for congress. She declined
• Jimmy performed at a Boston Strong event to raise funds for Boston Marathon bombing victims

June

• Jimmy joined Willie Nelson at his show in Montauk
• A free concert on the Atlantic City beach drew more than 75,000
• Buffett and Toby Keith headed to Nashville to film the music video for “Too Drunk to Karaoke”



• A June tour swing took Jimmy through Boston, Philly, and Chicago

July

• A Margaritaville Pigeon Forge location was announced on July 1st
• Jimmy performed at the opening of his new Bossier City Margaritaville Casino
• Jimmy performed at the Yacht Restoration School Gala
• The music video for “Too Drunk to Karaoke” debuted on July 23rd

August

• Jimmy performed on the Today Show to promote his new album
• Songs From St. Somewhere, Jimmy’s first studio album in 5 years, was released on August 20th
• A photo of Jimmy’s big catch off Nantucket made the media rounds



• Jimmy’s new album debuted at #4 on the Billboard 200, selling 55,000 copies in its first week

September

• Jimmy made a surprise visit to his Margaritaville Biloxi operation, arriving by seaplane

October

• Jimmy appeared on the Ellen Degeneres show, playing “Something ‘Bout a Boat” and “Margaritaville”
• Buffett played to just a few hundred at the Belly Up in San Diego
• Comedian Bill Engval and his partner Emma Slater danced to “Cheeseburger in Paradise” on Dancing With The Stars
• Jimmy performed in Denver, and played the song “A Mile High in Denver,” saying he was pretty sure it was the first time he’d ever played it live.

November

• Coral Reefer Mac McAnally won CMA Musician of the Year for the sixth straight time

December

• Jimmy played December shows in Louisville, St. Paul, Tulsa, and Hawaii
• The December 6th show in Little Rock was canceled due to an ice storm
• In an interview in Hawaii, Jimmy revealed that he’ll launch a Margaritaville internet TV channel
• Jimmy wrapped the 2013 tour with a show in Honolulu
• On Christmas Day, Jimmy celebrated his 67th birthday

That’s a wrap for 2013!

Thanks to our many loyal visitors and members over the past year. We look forward to bringing you the most up-to-date Jimmy Buffett news again in 2014.

Happy New Year!

It seems like we just did this a short time ago… but nope, another year has come and gone and this one saw some big stories in Margaritaville.

Here’s our annual roundup of the biggest Buffett headlines of the year.

January

• Tour dates began to leak out and get confirmed, earlier than in years past
• Buffett plays Australia for the first time in several years
• After a nasty fall off the stage in Australia, Buffett is hospitalized for head and arm injuries
• Jimmy cancels show in New Zealand to focus on recovering

February

• Buffett’s featured on the 2011 New Orleans Jazz Fest poster
• Kenny Chesney joins Jimmy at the Everglades Benefit show in Palm Beach, FL
• Charlie Sheen melts down in front of the world, but manages to mention “A Pirate Looks at Forty” in an interview: “Rock bottom? That’s a fishing term. Doesn’t Jimmy Buffett sing ‘down to rock bottom again?’ Love me some Jimmy Buffett. Yeah man, pirate looks at forty.”

March

• Mac McAnally is honored with the 2011 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts
• Most of the spring and summer tour is confirmed in March with tickets going on sale later in the month
• Buffett trademarks “Tiger Blood” for a vodka energy drink. To date, nothing has been done with the trademark
• At the annual SXSW technology festival, Jimmy helps demo StageIt, a service that lets artists broadcast live shows from anywhere and earn money from the viewers.
• Jimmy performs at the Key West wedding of Fred Troxel and Rita Brown
• Lance Armstrong tweets as Jimmy plays an impromptu show at Baz Bar on St. Barths.

April

• Final approval is received for a Margaritaville Casino in Biloxi
• The Welcome to Fin Land Tour kicked off April 16th in Tampa
• April 16th was officially designated Jimmy Buffett Day in Florida, per a resolution in the state house
• Jimmy plays a fundraiser at the Pensacola Naval Air Museum

May

• Buffett returns to the iconic New Orleans Jazz Fest
• Landshark Bar & Grill opens in Myrtle Beach
• The annual Frisco, TX show is capped off with “Livingston’s Gone To Texas,” played for the first time in over 30 years
• Jimmy reveals that he’s come across some unreleased tunes from the 60’s and 70’s and will put them out in a project dubbed “Buried Treasure”
• Kenny Chesney makes a surprise appearance at Jimmy’s Nashville show on May 28th. They played “Come Monday” and “Back Where I Come From” together

June

• In early June, Buffett attended the 40th annual NYPD Foundation Gala
• Jimmy and the Zac Brown Band win CMT Performance of the Year at the CMT Music Awards for their performance of Margaritaville on CMT Crossroads
• The duet “Knee Deep” with the Zac Brown Band is released to country radio and a music video is shot in Mexico

July

• Buffett attends the final space shuttle launch and plays a private show for shuttle workers
• Savannah Jane Buffett, Jimmy’s daughter, launches clothing line
• Jimmy plays Cuyahoga Falls outside of Cleveland for the first time since 2004

August

• “Knee Deep” becomes Jimmy’s second number one song when it reaches the top of the chart in early August
• Jimmy throws a 60th birthday party for his wife Jane. Guests included Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Jane Fonda, Jack Nicholson, Harrison Ford, Calista Flockhart, Richard Gere, Jon Bon Jovi, Billy Joel, and James Taylor
• The Bristow, Virginia concert is postponed due to Hurricane Irene
• Jimmy opens for Ilo at his Stephen Talkhouse show on Long Island. Bill and Hillary Clinton were in attendance
• With Hurricane Irene still whipping up waves, Jimmy rescued a surfer off Montauk

September

• A line of Margaritaville Coffee is announced
• Jimmy releases a live version of the Volcano album, with all tracks recorded at shows from the Welcome to Fin Land Tour
• It’s become an annual tradition… Buffett plays a show in Paris in late September

October

• A 15,000 sq. ft. Margaritaville gaming area opens in the Flamingo Casino in Las Vegas
• The Las Vegas Margaritaville breaks the record for the world’s largest margarita
• Buffett performs in Phoenix for the first time since 2009 and Denver for the first time since 2004

November

• Jimmy performs at Meeting of the Minds in Key West for the first time in several years
• Margaritaville Online enters beta testing with several thousand parrothead testers invited to start playing the game before it’s released to the general public
• Mac McAnally wins CMA Musician of the Year for the fourth year in a row
• Another Margaritaville Casino wins approval, this one in Bossier City, Louisiana
• Jimmy Buffett guest stars on an episode of the CBS show Hawaii Five-0

December

• Along with his sisters, Jimmy donates a boat to the University of Southern Mississippi
• Jimmy and Jane are honored with the 2011 Child Advocacy Award at the annual Child Mind Gala
• Longtime Coral Reefer Ralph MacDonald dies after a battle with cancer
• On December 25th, Jimmy celebrated his 65th birthday

What do you think was the biggest Buffett story of 2011?

And now that you’ve read through this year, take a trip down memory lane and view our Year in Reviews from previous years:

• 2010
• 2009
• 2008