Luke Bryan returns to Panama City, Florida to put on his annual Spring Break concert at the Spinnaker Beach Club on Tuesday (March 12th) and Wednesday (March 13th). He’ll perform songs from his Spring Break…Here to Party album, which will was released last week. Luke loves performing for the scores of kids having a good time on the beach during Spring Break, and while he sees some wild and weird things, he says last year was probably the best. “Last year was pretty amazing when we were on stage at the Spinnaker and we were seeing the helicopters fly over, like the Sheriff’s Department,” says Luke. “They said people were on roofs of hotels and stuff, and I didn’t know there was like 45,000 people on the beach. I just could kinda see what was going on right there at Spinnaker, so that was probably the wildest Spring Break I’ve ever seen.”

You can catch the music video for “Buzzkill,” which is featured on his Spring Break…Here to Party album, on CMT.com.

• Luke played to nearly 90,000 people in two days last year, and he’s expected to exceed that this week.
• Luke’s ability to draw huge crowds in the Spring Break mecca caught the attention of the Panama City Convention & Visitors Bureau, who tapped Luke as a spokesperson last year.
•  Luke’s Here to Party album includes songs from 2009’s Spring Break…with All My Friends followed in 2010 with Spring Break 2…Hangover Edition, 2011’s Spring Break 3…It’s A Shore Thing and last year’s Spring Break 4…Suntan City.
• Luke is also set to perform at Orange Beach, Alabama on Thursday (March 14th)

Luke Bryan (Spring Break-high school) OC: …survived it. :43
“My Spring Breaks in high school were, you know, we’d hide beer in the woods and we hid it under an old oak stump or something, you know, and we’d roll out there and load up the tool box full of some old skunky beer after it’d been sitting in the woods for a month, but we took it down Panama City. One of my buddies, I’ll leave names out of it, but he got us banned from all of Thomas Drive in Panama City. He threw a couple of TVs out of the hotel room. If it wasn’t bolted down, he relieved it from the room. We had a great time, though. It was all part of being a kid, all a part of growing up – drinking and partying for the first time, and somehow we survived it.”

Luke Bryan (Spring Break & beer) OC: …on the beach. :2
“Spring Break and drinking beer is definitely, I mean, you’re down on the beach, you’re drinking beer all day, and it’s just kind of a college way of life. So, when you write Spring Break songs, it’s kind of a no-brainer that drinking beer and partying and staying up all night is gonna be in the theme. But, definitely, I don’t think you can have Spring Break without good cold beer on the beach.”

Luke Bryan (wildest & weirdest Spring Break) OC: …wild and weird. :48
“Yk, it’s hard to say what the wildest or weirdest thing I’ve seen. I mean, last year was pretty amazing when we were on stage at the Spinnaker and w2e were seeing the helicopters fly over, like the Sheriff’s Department. They said people were on roofs of hotels and stuff, and I didn’t know there was like 45,000 people on the beach. I just could kinda see what was going on right there at Spinnaker, so that was probably the wildest Spring Break I’ve ever seen. As far as weird, heck, it’s all weird at that point. It’s fun just being there and watching what crazy new drinking game is gonna happen or what crazy new dance song, what’s the biggest song of the year that year. But we love it, and hey, it’s all wild and weird.”

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VIDEO: Luke Bryan tries to recall some of his wildest — and weirdest — Spring Break memories.