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Happy Hour March 19 2010 *UPDATE* photos added

Saturday, March 13th, 2010

*UPDATE* – 70+ parrotheads attended the phlocking. We had a fine pot luck meal, socialized a lot and watched the TV show. Here are some photos of the evening.


Our March gathering of the Phlock will take place Friday night, March 19 2010, to view the CMT Crossroads TV event with Jimmy Buffett and the Zac Brown Band! We hope to have a big turn-out to enjoy this great show!

We are holding this at the Pilot House located at Nashville Shores Marina. We will have to provide our own food and beverages, so we thought we would hold a “pot-luck” event.

Where:

  • Nashville Shores Marina – Pilot House Click here for map.
  • 4001 Bell Road
  • Hermitage, TN 37076
  • Directions are noted below

Time:

  • 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. (Show starts at 9:00 p.m.)

Bring:

  • Appetizer or light food to share with the group (pot luck style)
  • Serving utensils for your food
  • Your beverage of choice (adult or otherwise) – in a cooler to keep them cold!
  • A friend if you can!

The Club will provide the paper products (plates, utensils, napkins, cups).

We look forward to getting to know all our new members during this time as well.

Let me know if you have questions. Hope to see you then!

Marcia Colburn
Membership Director

Driving Directions: PLEASE NOTE – the Marina entrance is not the same as the Waterpark entrance.

From Nashville, Memphis, and Bellevue: Take I-40 East from Nashville to Old Hickory Boulevard (Exit 221B) and go South. Turn right on Bell Road. Go one-half mile and the Nashville Shores Marina entrance will be on the left.

From Knoxville, Cookeville, and Lebanon: Take I-40 West to Old Hickory Boulevard (Exit 221) and go South. Turn right on Bell Road. Go one-half mile and the Nashville Shores Marina entrance will be on the left.

From Chattanooga and Murfreesboro: Take I-24 West to Bell Road (Exit 59). Turn right and go North for 8 miles. Continue on Bell Road towards Percy Priest Dam and the entrance will be 1 1/2 miles on your right.

From Louisville, Bowling Green, and Goodlettsville: Take I-65 South to I-40 East. Exit at Old Hickory Boulevard (Exit 221B) and go South. Turn right on Bell Road. Go one-half mile and the Nashville Shores Marina entrance will be on the left.

From Huntsville, Franklin, and Brentwood: Take I-65 North to I-40 East. Exit at Old Hickory Boulevard (Exit 221B) and go South. Turn right on Bell Road. Go one-half mile and the Nashville Shores Marina entrance will be on the left.

From Joelton, Springfield, and Clarksville: Take I-24 East to I-40 East. Exit at Old Hickory Boulevard (Exit 221B) and go South. Turn right on Bell Road. Go one-half mile and the Nashville Shores Marina entrance will be on the left.

CMT Crossroads show with Zac Brown Band and Jimmy Buffett

Saturday, March 6th, 2010

The Jimmy Buffett and Zac Brown Band CMT Crossroads episode taped back in Dec 2009 at The Factory in Franklin, TN will be shown on CMT Friday March 19th at 9PM Central time. Here is a preview of the show. (Begins with advertisement.)

Jimmy Buffett & Zac Brown Band “Margaritaville (From CMT Crossroads)”

Zac Brown Band | Zac Brown Band Videos | New Country Songs

Margaritaville Cafe to open in Nashville confirmed

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

From the Tennessean newspaper article by G. Chambers Williams III: Margaritaville Nashville

“We have signed a lease and we’re ready to roll,” said Mark Bloom, a principle in the Corner Partnership, which is involved in several other downtown properties including the Hilton and Union Station hotels. “Buffett wants to make music a big part of the venue here, and the café is going to appeal to the young crowd, locals and visitors to our city,” he said. “Besides the food and special drinks synonymous with Margaritaville, the music will be a special attraction.”

They hope to open by the end of the year on Lower Broadway in the 18,000-square-foot building formerly occupied by Planet Hollywood at 322 Broadway. (Map link) It has two floors, both of which will be used by the restaurant. At street level there will be a restaurant, bar and three live-music stages. The second floor will house another bar, additional restaurant seating, and a “small concert hall with state-of-the-art lighting and sound system,” Bloom said. Total seating capacity is 350, with about 200 in the concert hall upstairs. A retail shop selling Buffett music and memorabilia will be included, as well. Live music will be featured daily. The café will be open from 11 a.m.-3 a.m. seven days a week, Bloom said, and the entertainment will include “a nightly showcase of newcomers.” Buffett’s band, the Coral Reefers, is based in Nashville, and there will be a special circular staircase in the restaurant “with a family tree” paying tribute to past and present members of the band, Bloom said. Many are Nashville residents. Construction will begin in late April, and will involve a “multimillion-dollar renovation” of the building “from top to bottom”.

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Music City PHiNs Birthday Bash 2010 UPDATED with pictures

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Birthday Bash SUCCESS :-) Approximately 100 pholks attended and had a good time hangin’ out and listening to Tall Paul, Milan Miller and Howard Livingston play some good music. We got lotsa new members and made lotsa new phriends. Photos are posted at Picasa. CLICK HERE to see’m. If you were there and have pictures please send them to me at info@mcphins.com and I’ll post them to our album.

ParrotHeads! Mark your calendars for a phlocking good time as we celebrate our club’s 7th trip around the sun at the Music City PHiNs Birthday Bash.

Date: Friday February 19th 2010
Time: 6pm – 9pm
Place: Dan McGuiness Pub
Nashville, TN. (Map)
Music by: Tall Paul, our own tye-dyed ParrotHead!

We’ll have specials on Corona Beer, raffle prizes, awesome tunes AND the chance to renew your membership or join for the first time for 2010!

Click here for a poster for the event.

Cheers,
Kat

National Margarita Day

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
Feb 22nd 2010 is National Margarita Day

Jimmy Buffett Haitian earthquake relief donation request

Friday, January 15th, 2010

Jimmy Buffett recorded a video asking his parrothead phans to help the Haitian earthquake victims by donating $10 to the Red Cross. To donate text “haiti” to 90999 and $10 will be added to your phone bill. The money will be donated to the American Red Cross Earthquake Relief for Haiti.


Jimmy Buffett year and decade review plus 2010 rumors

Monday, December 28th, 2009

Jimmy Buffett2009 was another big year for Jimmy Buffett who celebrated his 63rd trip around the Sun on Christmas Day. Read about the ‘Summerzcool Tour’, his partnership with the Miami Dolphins to rename their home field Landshark Stadium, the release of his new album in December plus lots more in between at BuffettWorld’s ‘Jimmy Buffett 2009 Year In Review‘:
http://www.buffettworld.com/2009/12/28/jimmy-buffett-2009-year-in-review/

Pollstar has compiled its year-end research and came up with the highest grossing touring artists of North America for the decade 2000 thru 2009. Jimmy Buffett comes in at number 10 with a total gross of $215,367,754. See the complete list at:
http://www.pollstar.com/blogs/news/archive/2009/12/18/702459.aspx

On Billboard Magazine’s list of top touring artists for the decade 2000 Thru 2009 that attracted the biggest crowds Jimmy Buffett comes in at number 22 with a total attendance of 3,927,053 and 196 tour shows. See the complete list at:
http://www.billboard.com/#/features/top-touring-artists-of-the-decade-1004053065.story

palmtreefireworksWhat’s Jimmy got planned in the new year ahead?

A Margaritaville Restaurant in Nashville? In mid December 2009 there was a job listing on monster.com looking for a Margaritaville restaurant general manager in Nashville. The listing was only up for 4 or 5 days and then it was gone. Did they find someone to fill the position or (like the Biloxi Casino) postpone it for awhile …h’mmmm…?
http://business.nashvillepost.com/tag/margaritaville-holdings-llc/

Tour date rumors mention Jimmy might do some shows in ’secondary markets’ (smaller and less visited locations) in 2010 but his ‘Buffet Hotel’ tour for 2010 starts in Australia and various Pacific locations. Tour dates for the spring and summer leg of the tour are usually announced in February and show dates for the rest of the year trickle out thru the spring and summer. He says he has thought of not playing his normal set list and instead wants to play entire albums next year along with some songs from the ‘Buffet Hotel’ album and some standard Big 10 parrothead songs. He mentions that he hopes to play his complete ‘One Particular Harbor’ album in Tahiti. Will there be a Nashville show …h’mmmm…?
RememberMCPHiNs members get first shot at tickets and maybe other perks that might come our way! (Like our free tickets to see Jimmy Buffett, the Coral Reefers and the Zac Brown Band (‘toes in the water, ass in the sand’ song) film a CMT TV show in Franklin, TN in early December 2009)

Jimmy the film maker is working on a documentary (movie and DVD?) about his trip to the Festival in the Desert in Essakane (near Timbuktu, Mali in Africa) where he discovered the current album’s namesake – ‘Hotel De La Gare Buffet’ – in the Bomako Train station. The DVD’s release date has not been announced but I would guess it to be sometime in 2010 to be timely with the 2010 ‘Buffet Hotel’ tour and the ‘Buffet Hotel’ album which was released in December 2009.

Jimmy the author is also working on two more books to go with his previous 7 books written by him and/or co-written with his daughter Savannah Jane. Four of his books made it to the New York Times’ best seller list with three of them No.1 Best Sellers. The two new books are a collection of Pacific ocean short stories and a “real life adventure” novel called ‘Mudbath’ that he says “hopefully you won’t recognize any of the characters.”

Margaritaville_neon_signJimmy and/or his company – ‘Margaritaville Holdings, LLC’ – has interests in: restaurants, satellite radio, footwear, clothing, frozen foods, beer, tequila, rum, drink mixes, hardware (frozen concoction makers), outdoor furniture, recording studios, professional ball teams, race horses, a dog sled team, boats, airplanes/charter, his own record label, several charitable foundations and other things I forget. He still seems to enjoy performing and he is becoming involved in more business activities each year so 2010 probably has lots more in store for him and his parrothead phans.

Happy Holidays and Phins Up Y’all!

Christmas Party 2009

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

xmaspalmtree The Music City PHiNs ParrotHead club Christmas Party and December Happy Hour will be ‘Brunch with Santa’ on Sunday, December 13, 11AM thru 2PM at Barefoot Charlie’s in Hendersonville, TN. (Click for map) There will be a steel drum band in the background to set the light hearted mood for the day, Santa will be taking Christmas wishes and handing out goodies for the kids and they will have a donation bin for toys, to be donated to the less fortunate little ones. (They originally said the toys would go to the ‘Toys for Tots’ foundation but later said the toys would be distributed by ‘The Good Samaritan Group’ local charity. Either way the toys will go to needy kids.) The brunch menu not only includes classic bacon-n-egg style breakfasts, but also a couple of signature dishes that you won’t find at other brunches. The Titans game will be on screens around the restaurant and drink specials include Bud Lt. & Miller Lt. drafts for only $1.50!

Picture of the PHiNs with Santa. (Click for a larger picture.)

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Buffett’s new CD and rum are almost here

Friday, November 20th, 2009

Buffet Hotel CD coverJimmy Buffett’s new CD titled “Buffet Hotel” (note only one ‘t’ in CD title) is due in stores Dec 8. It’s the first studio album from Buffett since “Take The Weather With You” was released October 10th, 2006. The CD title came from an old combination train station and hotel called the “Buffet Hotel” that Jimmy saw while on a recent trip to the “Festival In The Desert” near Timbuktu, Mali in Africa. The new CD is produced by Coral Reefers Mike Utley and Mac McAnally and contains 12 new songs. Guest artists include Sonny Landreth, Jake Shimabukuro, Cedric Burnside, Steve Lightnin’ Malcolm and Toumani Diabate.

Buffet Hotel track list:
1. Nobody From Nowhere
2. Wings
3. Big Top
4. Beautiful Swimmers
5. Turn Up The Heat And Chill The Rosé
6. Summerzcool
7. Rhumba Man
8. We Learned To Be Cool From You
9. Surfing In A Hurricane
10. Life Short Call Now
11. Buffet Hotel
12. A Lot To Drink About

Margaritaville rum bottlesMargaritaville Rum, which was announced in late 2007 and supposed to be in stores in the fall of 2008, is finally being shipped to some locations in mid-Nov 2009. It comes in four flavors: Coconut, Spiced, Silver and Dark. I called two Nashville liquor dealers, Frugal MacDoogal’s and J. Barleycorn’s, on Nov 19th and they said it has not been distributed in middle Tennessee yet but expect it to arrive late Nov or early Dec.

Phins Up ParrotHeads and Happy Holidays Y’all!