Jimmy Buffett will play his first Lounging at the Lagoon Tour show tonight at Austin City Limits Live in Austin, Texas.

The show will be broadcast live on Radio Margaritaville, beginning at 8:00 pm.

ACL Live has a slew of activities planned throughout the day:

ACL Live welcomes Jimmy Buffett and The Lounging at the Lagoon Tour with an afternoon of loungin’ at Lagoon 21 before the show. Parrotheads are welcome to join in the celebration with specialty food and cocktails at TRACE, cocktails on the porch of ACL Live and live music from Nakia for The Wine Down on the terrace.

TRACE kicks off the afternoon at 2:00 pm with their own take on Margaritaville, specialty cocktails including a Fresh Lime Margarita, Mai Tai, Boat Drink and the Painkiller will be available all afternoon and through the evening. Special dishes for the celebration include shrimp cocktail-Creole remoulade, oysters on the half shell- and a cuban sandwich. The Loungin’ At Lagoon 21 festivities continue upstairs on the terrace of ACL Live with cocktail specials and a beer bar.

The final Wine Down of the season kicks off at 5 pm with Austin favorite Nakia. Enjoy small bites by La Condesa as well as happy hour priced wines from The Dreaming Tree.

Wednesday, May 30 Loungin’ At Lagoon 21

2:00 pm TRACE offering specialty cocktails and bites
3:00 pm ACL Live Front Porch offering margaritas and a beer bar (After 5 pm must be Jimmy Buffett concert ticketholder)
5:00 pm The Wine Down on Wednesday with Nakia

Loungin’ at Lagoon 21 is open to everyone on May 30, 2012 starting at 2 pm and leading into Buffett’s concert. For more information, please visit www.acl-live.com.

Buffett’s first appearance on ACL was in 1983. Check out videos from that performance in our Video Gallery.

Tune in to Radio Margaritaville starting today at 6pm ET for a parade of complete Jimmy Buffett & the Coral Reefer concerts from the past, all weekend long! Have a FIN-tastic holiday weekend with family and friends, and Jimmy Buffett concerts, on Radio Margaritaville!

Broadcast Schedule:
Friday, May 25th at 6pmET: Camden, NJ (6/18/09 – SummerZcool tour)
Saturday, May 26th at 11amET: Jones Beach/Wantagh, NY (8/19/11 – Welcome to Fin Land tour)
Saturday, May 26th at 6pmET: Las Vegas, NV (9/29/00 – Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays tour)
Sunday, May 27th at 11amET: New Orleans, LA (5/4/02 – Jazzfest/Far Side of the World tour)
Sunday, May 27th at 6pmET: Atlanta, GA (6/2/06 – Party at the End of the World tour)
Monday, May 28th at 11amET: Sydney, Australia (1/23/11)
Monday, May 28th at 6pmET: Frisco, TX (5/22/10 – Under the Big Top tour)

The Margaritaville Casino & Restaurant in Biloxi is now open!

Jimmy Buffett christened his first stand-alone casino this afternoon with a special outdoor show that was broadcast live on Radio Margaritaville.

Here’s a look at the set list (hat tip Justin):

1. Stars on the Water
2. It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere
3. License to Chill
4. Pencil Thin Mustache
5. Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes
6. Son of a Son of a Sailor
7. The Pascagoula Run
8. Bama Breeze
9. Volcano
10. Come Monday
11. Margaritaville

Encore:

12. Fins

Check out a couple of interviews that Buffett gave today:

Huffington Post – Jimmy Buffett Talks About New Biloxi Margaritaville And His Hopes For The Gulf Coast
NOLA.com – Jimmy Buffett expands his Margaritaville brand to Biloxi casino

Jimmy Buffett’s latest business venture, the $62 million Margaritaville Casino & Restaurant in Biloxi, opens to the public tonight at 8:00 pm. Buffett will perform a private show before the opening to invited guests, including members of the local parrothead club.

The show will be broadcast live on Radio Margaritaville, beginning at 5:00 CDT.

Located on the eastern tip of Back Bay, from a distance it looks more like a yacht club than your traditional casino.

Inside, there is colorful ambient lighting and tropical décor.

Like other Margaritaville properties such as at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, the entrance features a Margaritaville Restaurant and Volcano Bar, where, four times a day a “Biloxi cutie” is ejected from a smoking “volcano” from which she slides down into a replica blenderful of margaritas.

Dining options also include the Feeding Frenzy buffet featuring Gulf Coast cuisine and indoor and outdoor entertainment centers where visitors may enjoy an array of local, regional and national music acts.

Biloxi’s Margaritaville boasts 18 table games and 820 slots.

Another feature that sets it apart from the typical casino: A 30-foot wall of glass from which one may see the water and the Biloxi Bay bridge from any vantage point within the interior.

The Margaritaville Casino in Biloxi opens next week and Jimmy Buffett was in Jackson today to meet with the Mississippi Gaming Commission.

[See video below]

The popular singer met a Mississippi Gaming Commission requirement to appear before the panel before the casino’s VIP celebration at 5 p.m. and public grand opening at 8.

“Nothing like good timing!” Buffett told commissioners meeting this morning at their North Street office. “It’s always a pleasure to come home, and a double pleasure to get certified, because we open next week.”

The casino, to employ almost 1,000, will be located on Biloxi’s Back Bay.

Commissioners in March gave the casino their blessing, said Buffett’s business partner of 15 years, John Cohlan, but Buffett was required to make a personal appearance before the board as part of the certification. “Jimmy was on the road a month ago, and he couldn’t do it,” Cohlan explained.

But today, Buffett charmed all those at the meeting without singing the first note.
“I made my first professional dollar in Biloxi back in the 60s,” the Pascagoula native said. “I’m very proud to be coming back here.”

The $62 million project has been in the works since 2009, with the struggling economy playing a role in its slow progression.

But today, the project and the area of Biloxi it will invigorate are blooming. Biloxi’s Fifth Street, which will provide a tropical entryway to the casino, has been rebuilt. Trolleys will bring customers to the casino from a 900-vehicle parking lot.

“It’s touching,” Buffett said of the casino’s employment numbers. “It’s good to be an economic force on the Gulf Coast.”

It saddens him, Buffett said, to drive along U.S. 90 between New Orleans and Biloxi and see bare slabs where before Hurricane Katrina, buildings once stood.

“We certainly will be a catalyst in that area,” Buffett said. “We’re doing what we can.”

Cohlan told commissioners that Buffett “has opened my eyes to that part of the world.
“It’s safe to say that this is the most special thing we’ve ever done, from Jimmy’s perspective.”

The singer said he’s going to be “pretty involved” in his namesake casino, even though he says home is a wide swath “from upstate New York to the French West Indies.

“I’m always in and out of New Orleans,” he said. “And, the Walter Anderson Museum in Ocean Springs is a pet project of mine. It’s a good excuse to come here and be home.”

Buffett said he’ll be there for the opening and promises a big party.
And yes, he will perform.

“I don’t know,” Buffett said when asked what he will sing. “I haven’t written the set list. But, I want a dance floor. It will be uptempo.”