Jimmy Buffet and the Coral Reefer Band head to Footprint Center in March

Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band are coming for a one-night-only concert at the...

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) - Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band are coming for a one-night-only concert at the Footprint Center on Thursday, March 9, 2023, as part of his Flip Side Redux Tour 2023.

Self-proclaimed Parrot Heads won’t want to miss out on this chance to visit Margaritaville. “We’re thrilled to welcome Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band back to Footprint Center,” says general manager Ralph Marchetta. “We can’t wait to welcome the Parrot Heads back to downtown Phoenix for what will be the party of the year!” Tickets go on sale Friday, Dec. 2 at 10 a.m. here on Ticketmaster.

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The tour title references Buffett’s 2020 album release “Life on the Flip Side” as well as his “Songs You Don’t Know by Heart.” Buffet has been playing for years, starting his career playing in the streets of New Orleans and eventually in Bourbon Street clubs. In 1974, his song “Come Monday” peaked at number 30 on the Billboard charts. In 1977, the infamous “Margaritaville” song was born and spent 22 weeks on the Billboard chart at number 8. 27 albums later, Buffett’s music is known throughout the world, and has inspired him to formulate restaurants, hotels, residences, beach bars, and even a Broadway play called “Escape to Margaritaville.”

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Attention all Parrot Heads: Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band are stopping by Phoenix next year on their U.S. tour.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Jimmy Buffett and the Cora Reefer Band back to Footprint Center,” General Manager Ralph Marchetta said. “We can’t wait to welcome the Parrot Heads back to downtown Phoenix for what will be the party of the year!”

The tour, titled “Life on the Flip Side Redux Tour 2023,” will make its Phoenix landing Thursday, March 9, 2023. The tour is a reference to Buffett’s 2020 album of the same name.

The “Redux” mention of the tour references the original dates of the tour scheduled for 2022 being rescheduled to 2023 due to Buffett’s brief hospitalization last year.

Tickets for the Phoenix show go on sale on Dec. 2 at 10 a.m. at Ticketmaster.com.

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I wish he’d planned to play at Ak Chin or another outdoor arena where you can dance on the lawn. No tailgating at Footprint. That’s half of the Buffett concert experience!

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Phoenix, the wait is over. Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band will perform in the Valley for one night only.

The legend will play an 8 p.m. show on Thursday, March 9 at Footprint Center, 201 E. Jefferson St., as part of Buffett’s Life on the Flip Side Redux Tour 2023.

Local Parrot Heads will get their chance to soak in the full Margaritaville experience.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band back to Footprint Center,” General Manager Ralph Marchetta shared in a statement. “We can’t wait to welcome the Parrot Heads back to downtown Phoenix for what will be the party of the year.”

The tour name is a reference to Buffett’s 2020 album release (#2 debut) co-produced by long time Coral Reefers, Michael Utley and Mac McAnally.

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Mark your calendars Parrotheads, Margaritaville is set to return to Phoenix.

Jimmy Buffett recently announces plans to tour with Coral Reefer Band as one of their stops in their Life on the Flip Side Redux Tour will be on March 8 at the Footprint Center in downtown Phoenix.

Tickets for the show will go on sale Dec. 2 to the general public.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band back to Footprint Center,” Ralph Marchetta, general manager of the venue, said in a press release.

Buffett’s show are very popular in the valley of the sun. He has performed in the Valley 10 times since the turn of the century. Buffett’s most recent tour in Arizona was in 2018 when the venue was called Talking Stick Resort Arena.

Buffett is a two-time Grammy Award nominee and is best known for island vibe and his hit songs “Margaritaville” and “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere.”

This concert will no doubt be a party!

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PHOENIX — Expect a big party in downtown Phoenix in October. That’s when laid-back, good-time singer Jimmy Buffett will stop by with his colorful brand of entertainment.

Buffett will bring his Son of a Son of a Sailor Tour 2018 to Talking Stick Resort Arena on Oct. 13. Showtime was set for 8 p.m.

“This will be the party of the year in downtown Phoenix,” arena general manager Ralph Marchetta said in a press release.

Tickets go on sale April 23 at 10 a.m. at the arena and Ticketmaster online or by phone at 1-800-745-3000.

Buffett’s backup, the Coral Reef Band, will also make the trip.

He hasn’t been in the Valley since 2013.

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The 71-year-old songwriter best known for late 1970s hits “Margaritaville” and “Cheeseburger in Paradise” has parlayed his popularity into success in other fields.

His fans, who proudly call themselves “Parrotheads,” have helped him open two restaurant chains, a retirement village, an Atlantic City casino and even a Broadway show, “Escape to Margaritaville.”

The tour opened in Baltimore in late March. The Phoenix date will come on the heels of nearly a week of shows in Paris.

After Phoenix, Buffett and the band will play in Salt Lake City (Oct. 17) and close out in Las Vegas (Oct. 20).

Valley concert venues have been plenty busy booking shows for the year.

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Beaches, boats, bars & tropical drinks with those little umbrellas. That is what you think of while watching and listening to "Garratt Wilkin & the Parrotheads" performing "A Celebration of Jimmy Buffett's Music".

Garratt Wilkin & The Parrotheads have headlined fairs and festivals throughout Oregon, Washington, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, Utah, Nashville (Tennessee) and as far away as Anchorage (Alaska), Maui (Hawaii), as well as the Eastern seaboard and as close as his home town of Placerville, CA. Their popularity is expanding throughout North America.

Garratt and his band have been billed as the #1 Jimmy Buffett tribute band in the nation. Garratt says, "Traveling with 'The Parrotheads' is a great way to meet Jimmy Buffett fans and to make new 'Parrothead' friends. We get such a kick performing for fans that become just as much a part of the show as we are."

Since their initial transformation from Garratt Wilkin & The Whiskey Ducks to Garratt Wilkin & The Parrotheads, exclusively performing Jimmy Buffett music, the Parrotheads have performed as a six-piece "core" band and up to as large as a 13 piece band including Steel Drums, Horn Section, Harmonica and Pedal Steel Guitar. Garratt was quoted as saying, "Performing with the big band gives us the closest representation of the Coral Reefers and creates the look, feel and sound of being at a Jimmy Buffett concert."

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Review: Jimmy Buffett and Jason Mraz turn Snapdragon Stadium into a giant beach party, 8 miles inland

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The first concert at the new stadium in San Diego’s Mission Valley had a capacity of 28,000 and drew a near full-house. The audio quality was much better than at many stadium shows

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Jimmy Buffett and Jason Mraz have each performed numerous times in San Diego over the years — Buffett since the early 1970s and native Virginian-turned-Oceanside resident Mraz since the late 1990s. But Saturday night was the first instance in memory at which either played second fiddle here to a large, new, outdoor concrete edifice.

So, take a bow, Snapdragon Stadium, which opened last September as the home of San Diego State University’s Aztecs football team — and this weekend made its largely promising debut as a concert venue.

Jason Mraz performs at Snapdragon Stadium on Saturday, May 6, 2023 in San Diego

“I don’t usually wear a suit, but this is such a special occasion I had to dapper it up a bit,” said Mraz, 45, prior to performing the buoyant, reggae-infused “Wise Woman,” the fourth song in his engaging, hour-long set. “I thought this day would never get here, but I’m glad it did.”

Longtime Buffett collaborator Mac McAnally was, in fact, the first artist to perform at Saturday’s concert. The show had been pushed back from its original date last October, after Buffett was hospitalized for undisclosed reasons.

Now 76, the star of the night was in good spirits as he took to the stage at 7 p.m. He warmly greeted the audience, then introduced McAnally, who did an engaging, five-song opening set with percussionist Erik Darken.

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“We finally made it!” Buffett, clad in a track warm-up suit, told the cheering audience. “Thank you for waiting.”

Prior to his first number, “Blame It On New Orleans,” McAnnaly said: “We are honored to kick off the inaugural concert at Snapdragon Stadium.”

Jimmy Buffett fans tailgate at Snapdragon Stadium before the concert.

Buffett and Mraz delivered crowd-pleasing sets with their respective bands, each of which performed with a winning combination of polished precision and festive celebration.

Mraz and his brassy band performed tender ballads, funk-fueled romps and the disco-styled “I Feel Like Dancing” with equal poise and verve. He gave some extended solos to his musicians — something rarely heard in a stadium setting — and tenor saxophonist Carlos Sosa and guitarist Molly Miller were especially impressive.

Buffett opened with the tropical-flavored “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes,” the title track of the 1977 album that propelled him from cult status to stardom. He concluded a bit more than 90 minutes later with an animated version of Crosby, Stills & Nash’s “Southern Cross.”

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In between came 16 other songs, including such favorites as “Fins,” “A Pirate Looks at 40,” “Cheeseburger in Paradise” and the inevitable “Margaritaville.”

Buffett fondly recalled his first gigs here, 40 years ago, “at a coffee shop at SDSU” — the now-defunct Back Door — and sprinkled in a number of local references during his set. (Mraz in turn gave a shout out to Java Joe’s, the Ocean Beach coffee house where he got his start.)

Buffett’s enduring appeal was perhaps best summarized Saturday by Lauren Mackin, who flew in from Arizona with her husband, Brian, a 27-time Buffett-concertgoer, their 19-year-old son, Darren, and his girlfriend, Emily.

“The great thing about a Jimmy Buffett concert,” Lauren Mackin said, “is that it’s like you’re at a karaoke bar with 50,000 of your best friends that you didn’t know you had.”

The concert’s promoters declined to disclose the attendance, but it looked like close to a full house for the 28,000-capacity show at Snapdragon. The new venue is at the same Mission Valley site that once housed San Diego Stadium, San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium, Qualcomm Stadium and SDCCU Stadium — to cite the four successive names of the larger stadium that used to stand there.

With a concert capacity of 28,000 — 7,000 less than for football games and other sporting events — Snapdragon is, by comparison, an intimate, streamlined venue. It seats half as many people as the sprawling, 53-year-old stadium it replaced.

Fans watch as Jason Mraz performs at Snapdragon Stadium.

The sight-lines were good from most of the nearly dozen locations I watched from during the course of Saturday’s nearly four-hour event. And the sound was much better than at any concert I can recall attending at the previous stadium.

The crisp, well-balanced audio mix may also reflect the skill of Buffett and Mraz’s respective sound engineers. They, thankfully, resisted the urge to turn everything up to 11, which has long been an unfortunate tendency for far too many stadium music acts.

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Where Snapdragon faltered Saturday was in the extremely long wait times for concertgoers to purchase food and, more often, drinks.

While there’s no known scientific study, so far, that confirms Buffett’s fans consume significantly more alcoholic beverages than college football-game attendees, the inordinately long lines at his concert here suggest that may well be the case.

Jimmy Buffett and The Coral Reefer Band perform at Snapdragon Stadium on Saturday.

Then again, by the end of the night, a couple seated in front of this reviewer posed for a selfie with 10 empty plastic cognac glasses that they had consumed during the concert.

And Buffett, a billionaire whose empire includes more than one alcohol-related product, was happy to toast the crowd in song, at one point ad-libbing the lyric: “What would Jimmy Buffett do right now? Go to the Belly Up and buy you a drink!”

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Jimmy Buffett: Welcome to Fin City Live in Las Vegas 2011 Streaming: Watch & Stream Online via Peacock

Jimmy Buffett: Welcome to Fin City Live in Las Vegas 2011 is a concert recorded live at MGM Garden Arena, Las Vegas, Nevada. It features Jimmy Buffet performing some of his most beloved songs along with the Coral Reefer Band.

Here’s how you can watch and stream the movie via streaming services such as Peacock.

Is Peacock available to watch via streaming?

Yes, Jimmy Buffett: Welcome to Fin City Live in Las Vegas 2011 is available to watch via streaming on Peacock.

The setlist features 14 famous songs from the album, inclufing a mix of Buffett’s classic hits like “Fins,” “Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes”, “Margaritaville” and more. Viewers can experience the live concert atmosphere with the infectious crowd energy.

The cast mainly features Jimmy Buffett and his longtime band The Coral Reefer Band.

Watch Jimmy Buffett: Welcome to Fin City Live in Las Vegas 2011 streaming via Peacock

Jimmy Buffett: Welcome to Fin City Live in Las Vegas 2011 is available to watch on Peacock.

Peacock features an impressive collection of acclaimed movies, TV shows, and documentaries that subscribers can access anytime on any device.

You can watch via Peacock by following these steps:

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The film’s official synopsis is as follows:

“Margaritaville-Las Vegas breaks the Guiness Book of World Record for the largest Margarita The Margaritaville Casino opened in the Flamingo Hotel, next to the Restaurant and Store And, Jimmy performed 2 incredible Saturday night shows at the MGM, which have been captured in Audio, Video, and Blu-ray. This is the best of both shows. “

NOTE: The streaming services listed above are subject to change. The information provided was correct at the time of writing.

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