Confirmed: Detroit, MI for July!

Ryan C. · #1 (**permalink**) 05-04-2012, 03:08 AM

Jimmy Buffett to play Comerica Park on July 28

Parrotheads, prepare your party hats: A time-honored summer ritual will have a new home in Detroit, as Jimmy Buffett heads to Comerica Park for a blowout concert July 28.

The show, which will be formally announced today, will be the first-ever Detroit performance by the popular tropical rocker, after decades of dates at DTE Energy Music Theatre, the former Pine Knob.

Tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. May 12 via Find a Ticketing Solution at Tickets.com, the Comerica Park box office and charge-by-phone (866-668-4437). Prices will be announced in coming days.

Buffett's DTE shows have typically sold out within minutes. Capacity will be about 40,000 for the Comerica Park date, said Olympia Entertainment president and CEO Tom Wilson.

Buffett, 65, has played only a handful of stadium shows during a four-decade touring career.
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"He's always been capable of doing a show of this magnitude. It was just a question of him getting comfortable with it," Wilson said. "He started playing stadiums in the recent past, and part of the reason you start doing that is because there's this incredible demand."

A daylong "Buffett's Beach Party" will be held on the grounds outside Comerica Park, where a lounge, margarita tastings, midway games and other frills will be in place for the legion of partying Parrothead fans.

"Jimmy is a celebration as much as it is a concert -- it's a state of mind, a different state of reality," Wilson said. "It's also nice that this is a Saturday (show). It's one of those things where you can come down and celebrate Jimmy all afternoon, because we have the ability to do a Margaritaville out here in our parking lots."

After Buffett's long relationship with Palace Sports & Entertainment, the downtown move is a coup for the Ilitch-owned Olympia. It follows a high-profile run of concerts last summer at Comerica Park, where shows by Kid Rock and Paul McCartney drew about 120,000 total fans.

"Jimmy is somebody we've been after for several years," said Wilson. "There's a finite number of artists who can fill stadiums. We've tried to be more aggressive in bringing more entertainment down here, and this is the fruit of our labor."