Breathe a sigh of relief Michigan parrotheads. Jimmy Buffett is indeed returning to Detroit this summer, according to Detroit radio station WOMC. He’ll hit Comerica Park in July with John Fogerty.

Detroit, MI
Comerica Park
Saturday, July 26th

Tickets on sale Saturday, April 26th through TicketMaster | TicketNetwork.

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Tickets go on sale this morning at 10am CT for Jimmy Buffett’s show at Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin this August.

East Troy, WI
Alpine Valley Music Theatre
Saturday, August 23rd
TicketMaster | TicketNetwork

Tickets are priced at $49.50 and $158.00 with all fees.

View all currently scheduled tour dates here.

Even if you don’t know who Jesse Winchester is, as a Buffett fan you’ve likely heard at least one of his songs. In Buffett’s long career, he’s recorded six of Winchester’s songs: Rhumba Man, L’air De La Louisiane, Defying Gravity, Biloxi, Nothing But a Breeze, and I Wave Bye Bye. In the liner notes of the box set Boats, Beaches, Bars, and Ballads, Buffett said “like a solid relief pitcher, Jesse Winchester is a source of songs I return to again and again. ”

Winchester died at his home in Charlottesville, Virginia on Friday morning after battling cancer. He was 69.

When Buffett played the concert for the Gulf Coast in 2010, Winchester joined Buffett on stage to sing “Rhumba Man,” “Mississippi You’re On My Mind,” and “Biloxi.”

A year after that, in 2011, Jesse was told he had esophageal cancer. He stopped in the middle of a tour and began radiation treatments, followed by surgery. Immediately, Buffett and Elvis Costello agreed that it would be a good idea to put together a tribute album as a show of support.

At Christmas of 2011 Buffett wrote to Jesse and told him the album was coming, a gift from a whole bunch of grateful musicians and songwriters to a master. Jesse expressed his gratitude and had some good news of his own. He had beat the odds – after treatment and surgery the doctors had told him he was cancer free.

Winchester’s cancer returned in February, this time in his bladder and was inoperable.

Download the tribute album Quiet About It at iTunes.

Read more about Jesse Winchester’s life here.

On Monday night’s The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the house band The Roots reached deep into the Buffett catalog and pulled out “Love in the Library” as the short intro song for guest Chloe Grace Moretz as she walked out.

Moretz is currently starring in the off-Broadway show The Library.

You can watch the quick performance at NBC.com. Skip ahead to 29:00.

Buffett was a guest on Jimmy Fallon’s Late Night show back in 2009, and has been on The Tonight Show many times with both Johnny Carson and Jay Leno.

Grab the song “Love in the Library” at iTunes.

(hat tip @AllieGinNYC)

Jimmy Buffett will make his annual trek to the Alpine Valley Music Theatre in East Troy, Wisconsin this August:

East Troy, WI
Alpine Valley Music Theatre
Saturday, August 23rd

Tickets go on sale Monday, April 14 at 10am CDT through TicketMaster | TicketNetwork.

There is a half-page ad in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel advertising the show:

(thanks to Gail (@PUBLISIDE) for sending us the photo)

View all currently scheduled tour dates here.