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Buffett Lounges in Seattle

October 24th, 2012


On Tuesday night, Jimmy Buffett brought the Lounging at the Lagoon Tour to the Key Arena in Seattle, Washington. It was Buffett’s first Seattle area show since 2003.

View the set list from the show here.

Check out a couple reviews from the show:

Buffett (in T-shirt, shorts and bare feet) and his 11-piece Coral Reefer Band filled a sprawling stage decorated to look like a beach-side bar. Behind the stage, a massive screen suitable for a drive-in theater displayed colorful video of Caribbean locales, as well as clips of swimming “mermaids” from a Florida tourist attraction that has been in business since the 1940s.

The stage was also flanked by two fake evergreen trees, among several references to the Seattle area. The best nod to the Northwest came during a boisterous version of Buffett’s signature “Margaritaville,” in which he substituted “Nibblin’ on crabcakes” for a famous line about spongecake. And Buffett reminded the crowd that the melancholy “Come Monday” (his first major hit in the mid-’70s) had caught on early in Seattle.


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Live in Las Vegas Tonight

October 20th, 2012


Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band take the Lounging at the Lagoon Tour to Las Vegas tonight for the first of two shows at the MGM Grand.

You can listen to the show live on Radio Margaritaville on the web or Sirius XM beginning at 8 pm PT / 11 pm ET.

Buffett’s fall leg also includes shows in Seattle (Tues), Boise (Thurs), and back in Vegas again on Saturday.

You can still find tickets to these shows at TicketNetwork!


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Buffett Raises Money for Charity in San Francisco

October 19th, 2012


Jimmy Buffett performed at The Fillmore in San Francisco on Thursday night, raising money for Singing for Change.

You can view the set list here.

The Mercury News has a review of the show: “Jimmy Buffett delivers fun Fillmore show”

It was certainly the top ticket of the season for Parrothead Nation, aka, the group of devoted fans who like nothing better than to dress up in wild garb, toss back a few margaritas and go see Buffett in concert. It’s a sizable contingent, enough to fill up all the arenas and amphitheaters, from coast to coast, where the 65-year-old troubadour usually performs.

Yet, he wasn’t playing a 20,000-capacity place like Mountain View’s Shoreline Amphitheatre (Buffett’s usual stamping ground in the Bay Area) this time around. He was performing before roughly 1,000 fans, who were lucky enough to score tickets to the sold-out show.

These fans certainly knew that it was a rare opportunity and thus acted like they’d just been handed winning lottery tickets. They showered Buffett with raucous applause and cheers throughout his two-hour-plus show.

Although he was performing in an intimate setting, Buffett didn’t cheat the crowd. Instead, the singer-songwriter-guitarist and his 10-piece Coral Reefer Band delivered their regular arena-sized production — and it was thrilling to witness that kind of firepower in such relatively cozy confines.


Tagged in Charitable Causes, Special Appearances, Touring

Listen to Charity Show from San Francisco Tonight

October 18th, 2012


Radio Margaritaville will broadcast Jimmy Buffett’s charity show tonight in San Francisco.

Buffett will take the stage at The Fillmore at 8 pm PT / 11 pm ET. Listen live on the web or on Sirius XM.

The show will benefit Jimmy’s charity Singing for Change, which offers competitive grants to progressive, community-based, nonprofit organizations that address the root causes of social and environmental problems.


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Buffett Performs at Bill Nelson Campaign Event

October 13th, 2012


Jimmy Buffett was in Orlando on Friday night to help Democratic incumbent senator Bill Nelson kick off a statewide campaign tour.

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson kicked off a cross-state tour Friday with singer Jimmy Buffett at his side, starting an itinerary that will take him to at least 19 stops in the last weeks of a hard-fought campaign against Republican U.S. Rep. Connie Mack.

About 100 supporters swayed and snapped cell phone photos of Buffett as he sang acoustical versions of “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” and “Margaritaville” in a hangar at the Orlando-Sanford International Airport. Nelson and his wife, Grace, danced alongside him.

“Go support Bill Nelson and the Democrats because guess what? Florida matters,” said Buffett, who was dressed in shorts, flip flops and sunglasses.

Nelson said the tour underscored his commitment to visit as many places in Florida as he can, even Republican bastions like the retirement community, The Villages, northwest of Orlando


AP photo John Raoux


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