| Concert Review of Jimmy Buffett at Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall on Sat Jun 30, 2007 |
| Event Date |
| Sat Jun 30, 2007 |
| Source |
| Press of Atlantic City |
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| Buffett gives resort crowd exactly what it came to see By STEVEN V. CRONIN Staff Writer Published: Sunday, July 1, 2007 ATLANTIC CITY — Atlantic City's beach and Boardwalk were crowded Saturday night, but Jimmy Buffett took the party inside as he played to a sold-out crowd at Boardwalk Hall. The crowd of Buffett fans — whom he affectionally calls Parrotheads — sang along with the singer as he ran through a mix of old standards, new favorites and a variety of cover songs from the likes of Willie Nelson and Van Morrison. Dressed in yellow beach shorts, a blue T-shirt and sporting bare feet, Buffett led the crowd in a concert that was part sing-along, part ritual and all entertainment. “All right, Fourth of July weekend is off to a good start in Atlantic City,” Buffett told the cheering crowd early in the show. And it certainly was. Fans, many of whom had spent the hours before the show partying on the city's Boardwalk and at its beach bars, were in high spirits when Buffett took the stage 15 minutes past the advertised 8 p.m. start time. The fans turned the drab gray of Boardwalk Hall's concrete floors into a tropical garden, with most showing up in brightly colored Hawaiian shirts. Others sported leis or wore hula skirts in a variety of colors. There were people in parrot hats, some in full parrot costume. Others, some the same age as the 60-year-old singer, wore balloon hats fashioned into shark fins (inspired by Buffett's song “Fins”) while others wore pirate hats and sported eye patches. Buffett, a Caribbean-inspired Peter Pan, has been fascinated by pirates since long before Capt. Jack Sparrow ever hit the scene. . |
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