A Jimmy Buffett Fan

Jimmy Buffet, the business tycoon and the king of entertainment, is going to do a spontaneous show at one of his restaurants. The show is scheduled for April 9th at the newly opened Margaritaville restaurant owned by Jimmy Buffet in Glendale, Arizona. The restaurant is located on the southern part of the West Gate City center and is famous for its décor. The show will take place near the fountain area outside the restaurant.

The impromptu show of Jimmy Buffet is expected to begin at 6 p.m and very less crowd is expected for the show as it is not promoted extensively. Jimmy Buffet fans can get tickets for this event just by going to the venue and filling the entry form from April 3rd onwards. Only limited tickets will be sold as it is difficult to accommodate more than 4000 people at the venue. People will get a chance to enjoy the music of his band as well as the food from his restaurant.

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reef band will be performing at an important landmark in New York City, the Madison Square Garden, on the 12th of June, as part of the “The Year of Still Here” summer tour the band is undertaking across many cities in North America. The Parrotheads, Jimmy Buffett’s fan club, will be in large members to witness their superstar’s remarkable performance and the Madison Square Garden is expected to be a sell out that day.

Jimmy Buffett’s proven track record of over forty records with many of them being gold, platinum and multi-platinum hits will ensure that the Parrotheads and his fans, both young and old, will come in large numbers to watch him perform live in front of them. There are many ticket promotional activities that are taking place for this concert all over New York and the tickets for the concert will be on sale from March 31st.

There is no doubt in anyone’s mind regarding the popularity and celebrity status of Jimmy Buffett. If there was any doubt about the artist’s reputation in the people’s mind in Greater Cincinnati, all that would have vanished by hearing the news that the ticket sales for Buffett’s summer tour at Riverbend Musical Center has sold out in about ten minutes. Jimmy Buffett and his Coral Reef Band are slated to perform on July 17th at the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati.

Jimmy Buffett fans have been welcoming him with great love and affection whenever he toured Cincinnati and this year will also be no exception. The ticket prices are a bit on the higher side, with pavilion seats sold at $136 and the lawn spot sold at $36. Many fans are disappointed as the tickets were sold out within 10 minutes of opening of the ticket counter. There is no doubt that Parrotheads will be in full swing during the concert.

The ticket sales for the Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reef Band at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in Houston did not sell at a very brisk pace as expected. There are two concerts that will be coming up in Houston and tickets for both the concerts were sold last Saturday morning. To everyone’s surprise, the tickets for the Buzzfest, a show that brings out the talented young rock stars to Houston annually, was sold within two hours of ticket issue and the Jimmy Buffett concert had hundreds of good seats still available.

Last year, Jimmy Buffett and his Coral Reef Band performed in front of 40,000 packed fans at Minute Maid Park in Houston and the concert was also the biggest draw that was witnessed in the history of Houston. Buzzfest is full day musical festival where fans will be able to see relatively new artists and acts and is a bit cheaper on the pocket as well. Buffett tickets are priced a bit higher and are the highest priced ticket among all the other summer concerts that Jimmy Buffett is undertaking. Buffett will be performing at Houston on the 21st of April and by that time one can be sure that the Parrotheads would have by then purchased all the left over tickets.

The Ticket News ranking system has the tropical rock music icon and businessman Jimmy Buffett in the top position of the Overall Top Event of the week, in the week that ended on March 16. Buffett will be on cloud nine as he and the Coral reefer’s are getting ready for their much anticipated world tour “Year of Still Here” which will start from Texas on April 21. Jimmy Buffett has pushed down the Musical band ‘Wicked” to the second place to rein his supremacy. Wicked, was topping this chart for a long time.

Jimmy Buffet remained in the first position of the Top Concert Events List last week also. Jimmy Buffet is followed by Eric Clapton in this list. Eric Clapton has climbed three positions to reach the second place in the list last week. Kenny Chesney is in the third position. Attaining the Overall Top event title will give boost to the ticket sale for the upcoming tour of Jimmy Buffet and the Coral Reef band. Parrotheads are planning to celebrate as their idol has reached first in two of the most coveted titles. Fans are hopeful that Jimmy will remain in the top list for many more weeks to come.

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reef band that are on a whirlwind summer tour all across the US have recently announced that they will be performing at the Detroit Energy Music Theater in Clarkston, Michigan on the 10th of June. The Parrotheads will be in large numbers to witness this mega event at the DTE as it will be the first performance of Jimmy Buffett at Detroit since his performance in 2006. The fan groups of Jimmy Buffett, Parrotheads, are pretty much excited at hearing this latest news and are eagerly waiting for the announcement of the ticket prices. The ticket sales will begin on Friday at 10 am.
Since it will be Jimmy Buffett’s performance in Detroit after a gap of two years, it is expected that the tickets will be sold out in a frenzy and so the fans have decided to camp at the ticket venue to purchase their tickets. A cap of six tickets per buyer has been put by the organizers and hence bulk booking by the fans will not be possible. The Parrotheads will be at the DTE centers in large numbers on June 10th with their party gear on and the last Jimmy Buffett performance at Detroit in September 2006 was on a rainy and chilly night.

Jimmy Buffett, the versatile singer and a business magnet, has added a few more locations to his “The Year of Still Here” summer tour and many more concert locations are in the pipeline for which the dates and the venues will be publicized later. The latest places added to his concert tour includes Woodlands in Texas on April 21 and about 12 or more locations across the eastern US in September. He has also booked two night stands in places like Mansfield, MA and Bridgeview, IL. He will be performing at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on May 3rd and tickets to most of these shows are now on sale for the general public.

Buffett has gone all out in support of his 2006’s “Take the Weather with You” that got the number one position on debut on Billboard’s Country Album countdown. He is presenting the 2006 album in all his concert tours all over the US and the Parrot heads will be thronging at all the tour centers to witness their supreme hero perform live in front of them on the stage. Buffett is also busy with his new restaurant that is getting constructed in Waikiki and is to release his new book, “Swine Not” in May.

The world’s richest entertainer Jimmy Buffet has asked his dedicated fans “The Parrotheads” to give a new aspect to their famous Pre-concert tailgate parties. Jimmy has given the option to make money for charity work of their choice. A group of fans of Buffet are sponsoring a charity program called Frisco Feeding Frenzy. They also have plans to donate money to the National Breast Cancer foundation. The Ozarka plant had donated 1,000 bottles of water to be sold to the Jimmy fans attending the tailgate party on 26th April and the income generated will be given to a man from Winnsboro, who is a victim of lung cancer, for his medical expenses.

Bill Ansel, the parrotheads official tailgate planner announced that all the proceeds of the party will be given to Dana from Winnsboro. Bill has made the tailgating one of the highlights of the Jimmy concerts. The 2007 Tailgate party was attended by 675 people and $2,300 was generated. A major portion was given to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society also received some help from the Parrotheads in the name of Michael French, the Jimmy fan, who was diagnosed with leukemia at the tender age of 8years.

Jimmy Buffett was born as James William Buffett on Christmas Day in the year 1946 and is the son of James Delaney Buffett Jr. and Mary Loraine. Both his parents are no more and he has two sisters, Lucy Ann and Loraine Marie. He spent his childhood in Alabama and did his elementary schooling in St. Ignatius. Jimmy Buffett showed keen interest towards music right from his school days and did his high school at McGill Institute in Mobile, Alabama which is a Catholic school of boys. He attended the Auburn University and this was the place where he first learned to play the guitar.

Jimmy Buffett graduated in 1969 with a BS degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and worked as a correspondent for the leading musical magazine, Billboard in Nashville. Jimmy Buffett got an opportunity to sign with Barnaby records in 1969 and came up with his first of many albums “Down to Earth” in 1970 which only had 200 copies released. He began to subsequently release albums and with each album and world tour and concerts he became a darling to many music lovers all over the world. Jimmy Buffett was a co-owner of the minor league baseball team named Ft Myers Miracle in 1989 and turned out to be a businessman in the year 2000 with a chain of restaurants. Jimmy Buffett, apart from being a singer, song writer is also well known as a book writer, hotelier, TV as well as a film actor.

Jimmy Buffet was announced as the 7th richest rock star of 2006 by the Rolling stone magazine. His gross earning for the year 2006 was $56 million that came from his annual musical tour, chain of restaurants, stores and other ventures like Satellite Radio. Buffet is earning a good amount as royalty for the records released by his recording company Mailboat Records. Buffet has collectively named his business ventures as Margaritaville Holdings and the headquarters is presently located at Palm Beach, Florida. Margaretville cafes and stores is a chain of restaurants opened by Jimmy in 1987. Now, the chain has 16 branches and three more branches are coming up within next year.

Another restaurant chain co- owned by Buffet is Cheeseburger in Paradise. The first one was opened in Indianapolis in 2002 and now the chain of restaurants has sprung up in about 40 locations across 18 states in the United States. Another business of Jimmy Buffett is the internet radio station called Radio Margaritaville which started its service in 1999 and is also broadcast as a satellite radio channel on the Sirius network on channel 31. Margaritaville Casino Resort is the latest business venture of Jimmy Buffett that has commenced its work last year and will be ready by the spring of 2010.