“Island escapist” artist Jimmy Buffett has announced his upcoming Summerzcool Tour dates for 2009.

Tickets are available here

Scheduled dates are below:

Sat, Feb. 28th, 2009 07:00 PM Waikiki Shell (Honolulu, HI)
Thu, Apr. 16th, 2009 08:00 PM Lakewood Amphitheatre (Atlanta, GA)
Sat, Apr. 18th, 2009 07:30 PM Pizza Hut Park (Frisco, TX)
Tue, Apr. 21st, 2009 TBD Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre-NC (Charlotte, NC)
Thu, Apr. 23rd, 2009 08:00 PM Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek (Raleigh, NC)
Sat, Apr. 25th, 2009 TBD Ford Amphitheatre at the Florida State Fairgrounds (Tampa, FL)
Thu, May 14th, 2009 TBD Cricket Wireless Pavilion-AZ (Phoenix, AZ)
Sat, May 16th, 2009 08:00 PM MGM Grand Garden Arena (Las Vegas, NV)
Tue, May 19th, 2009 TBD Sleep Train Pavilion at Concord (Concord, CA)
Thu, May 21st, 2009 TBD Verizon Wireless Amphitheater-Irvine (Irvine, CA)
Thu, Jun. 18th, 2009 TBD Susquehanna Bank Center (Camden, NJ)
Sat, Jun. 20th, 2009 TBD Susquehanna Bank Center (Camden, NJ)
Tue, Jun. 23rd, 2009 TBD Post Gazette Pavilion At Star Lake (Pittsburgh, PA)
Thu, Jun. 25th, 2009 TBD Comcast Center – MA (Mansfield, MA)
Sat, Jun. 27th, 2009 TBD Comcast Center – MA (Mansfield, MA)
Thu, Aug. 6th, 2009 08:00 PM Riverbend Music Center (Cincinnati, OH)
Sat, Aug. 8th, 2009 TBD Toyota Park (Bridgeview, IL)
Tue, Aug. 11th, 2009 08:00 PM Verizon Wireless Music Center-IN (Noblesville, IN)
Thu, Aug. 13th, 2009 08:00 PM DTE Energy Music Center (Clarkston, MI)
Sat, Aug. 15th, 2009 TBD Toyota Park (Bridgeview, IL)
Wed, Aug. 26th, 2009 TBD Nikon at Jones Beach Theatre (Wantagh, NY)
Thu, Sep. 3rd, 2009 TBD Nissan Pavilion (Bristow, VA)
Sat, Sep. 5th, 2009 TBD Nissan Pavilion (Bristow, VA)
Thu, Oct. 15th, 2009 TBD Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre – CA (Chula Vista, CA)
Sat, Oct. 17th, 2009 TBD MGM Grand Garden Arena (Las Vegas, NV)
Wed, Oct. 21st, 2009 TBD Key Arena (Seattle, WA)
Sat, Oct. 24th, 2009 TBD MGM Grand Garden Arena (Las Vegas, NV)
Thu, Nov. 19th, 2009 TBD Air Canada Centre (Toronto, ON)
Sat, Nov. 21st, 2009 TBD Mohegan Sun Arena (Uncasville, CT)

Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band are famous for their concerts. Most shows consist of 26–30 songs and two separate encores. Come Monday is played during the first set of the show. Usually, after 12 to 14 songs, a 20-minute intermission is taken while a video plays for the fans. The first part of the second set usually consists of slower songs. There has never been a tour where A Pirate Looks At Forty hasn’t been played during the second set.

Buffett began his musical career in Nashville, Tennessee during the late 1960s as a country artist and recorded his first album, the folk rock Down to Earth, in 1970. During this time Buffett could be frequently found busking for tourists in New Orleans. Country music singer Jerry Jeff Walker took him to Key West on a busking expedition. Buffett then moved to Key West and began establishing the easy-going saggy beach bum persona for which he is known. Following this move, Buffett combined country, folk, and pop music with coastal as well as tropical lyrical themes for a sound sometimes called “gulf and western.” Today, he is a regular visitor to the Caribbean island of Saint Barts and other islands where he gets inspiration for many of his songs and some of the characters in his books.

His most recent album Live in Anguilla was recorded at reggae singer Bankie Banx’s beach bar, the Dune Preserve, in Rendezvous Bay, Anguilla, British West Indies, and Banx appears on the cover of the album. It was released in November 2007 on two compact discs on Mailboat. Live in Anguilla includes an 82-minute DVD of concert footage.