![]() How did that come about?ĭelaney, who’s a filmmaker, and a friend of hers from school, Dylan Orenstein, who works for us, were looking for programming or something that could keep people entertained. You stayed in touch with your fans, the Parrotheads, through the pandemic with weekly Zooms for first responders, the Nothin’ But Time virtual tour of vintage concerts and the video series (and resulting album) produced by your daughter Delaney, Songs You Don’t Know By Heart, which featured you talking about and acoustically performing lesser-known fan favorites. You can get over there and look out and see, but it’s still so exciting to me to get up there and do it. There’s always a little sliver the curtain back there. We were looking at Key West, but Key West was sketchy. I said, “You go and tell me what you think.” Dave, he’s one of my contractors on my house, he’s a Telecaster player. I saw this little place down in Delray, and I had friends that were recommending it to me. I’ve been looking at places I knew were making a really concerted effort to make sure everybody was safe. Other than proximity, how did you pick The Pavilion at Old School Square for your re-entry to touring? We’re all with each other, but we’re vagabonds, we’re nomads and everybody’s everywhere, but you know, six months with them was great. I got little studios everywhere, so I was generating content and working on things and staying in touch with the band… The silver lining of this whole thing was I would have never spent that much time with my grown kids for the rest of my life. Bart’s, which at that time, there was no COVID there and I could go there. And then I went home to Sag Harbor and stayed there from May until September. And I wound up taking my kids, two of whom live in California, back, and I stayed from March until May. Bart’s for the boat races that I do every year. Jimmy Buffett Inducted Into Mississippi Songwriters Hall of Fame And I was taught to give back and I’m trying to teach my children the same thing.” I was taught not to hate in the segregated South. “I just try to stick to those two things. And I was always raised with noblesse oblige - to give back if you’re lucky enough - thanks to my parents,” he says. for an invited crowd of 40 people in April, but, otherwise, the Delray Beach concerts will be his first in 14 months, and his excitement is palpable.īuffett’s brand may be escapism, but he’s built his empire and life on two pillars that embrace responsibility. ![]() He played (and filmed) two shows at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, Calif. Tickets for all four shows at the open-air venue sold out in around 10 minutes.īuffett calls the concerts “spring training” for when his summer job resumes - playing full-capacity shows, rescheduled from last year - in July. The reduced seating allows for around 850 people per show- seated in fenced four-person pods. Tomorrow, he will start a four-night stand (May 13-14, 17-18) at The Pavilion at Old School Square in Delray Beach, Fla., not far from his home in Palm Beach. From Questlove's Cheesesteaks to Jimmy Buffett's Margarita Maker, Here's the Best Musician-Approved… ![]()
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