“When I came up to the mike, I was saying who are you? I'm not saying go away. I didn't even know they were going to play,” said Brennan. “I just met them for the first time today and again, this is a testament to how this has just come together. Brennan not only had no idea who they were, he wasn’t expecting anyone. Much of the music before the parade came from a group of musicians who showed up, set up and began performing. 1, 2023 “surrounded by his family, friends, music and dogs”. A statement on Buffett's official website and social media pages says the singer died Friday, Sept. “Margaritaville” singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett has died at age 76. Invision FILE - Jimmy Buffett performs at the after party for the premiere of "Jurassic World" in Los Angeles, on June 9, 2015. “Just a sad time and we've all got to go along sooner or later I guess, but he left a lot of good music for us to enjoy in his wake,” said McConnell. He says fans are sorry Buffett is gone, but his memory will go on. “I'm staying over in Gulf Shores and just happened to be here when this all happened. McConnell is from Missouri, but he happened to be on the Gulf Coast when he heard about the Buffett celebration. Buffett fans often refer to themselves as “Parrotheads.” The Redneck Riviera is one nickname for the Alabama Gulf Coast. “I just wanted to come out and hang out with everybody for a Jimmy Buffett,” recalled Mark McConnell, who wore a “Redneck Riviera Parrothead Club,” T-shirt. When they got back out of the Navy, they would go hear him at the Admiral Semmes, at the Admiral's Corner." “We'd go and hear him at The Admiral's Corner. Later, they listened to him play some of his first performances at another downtown bar a few blocks from the parade site.
“My dad was playing football when he was a cheerleader at McGill,” Zimlich said. His father and Jimmy were students together at what was then McGill Institute, Mobile’s Catholic boys’ high school. Michael Zimlich says his family’s connection to Buffett goes back even further.
“We named our daughter Delaney after "Delaney Talks to Statues," so a pretty good lifestyle to live,” Michael added.
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“Just to celebrate Jimmy Buffett and the free spirited life that he lived and the fact that we walked down the aisle to Jimmy Buffett bluegrass,” said Michael. Jenni and Michael Zimlich rode in a golf cart decorated with a life size statue of a manatee on the back. Invision Jimmy Buffett arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party on Sunday, March 12, 2023, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif. Nobody counted participants, but the procession of musicians, strollers, golf carts and bicycles stretched more than six blocks. So, it's a great day.”Īt around 4 o’clock, a brass band, led the crowd in a New Orleans second line parade through downtown. “People came out and said I want to help and what started out as just a few friends, Gulf Coast friends who love Buffett turned into what you're looking at right now, which is, I don't know, I'm bad at counting crowds, but we could be looking at 500 people. “Basically, one thing led to another,” said Brennan. Said 'hey can we get some buddies together and throw what Mobile does best? Get on the street and dance. “I grew up with, went to high school with Blow House Brass Band,” he said. That’s when Brennan started making a few phone calls. I'm very familiar with second lines and parades and celebrating that way,” he said. He says Mobile needed an appropriate sendoff for a man many here consider one of their own. “I woke up Saturday morning to some bad news and wanted to make the best of a bad situation and felt like that was something Buffett would do,” said Joseph Brennan, one of the organizers of the celebration.
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AP FILE - Singer Jimmy Buffet performs barefooted with his band The Coral Reefers on the NBC "Today" television show summer concert series in New York's Rockefeller Plaza, on June 25, 2004.
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