DOWNTOWN AFTER DARK featuring Drake White

101 West Beach Drive,Panama City FL 32401

27 May, 2022

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Destination Panama City is proud to host Downtown After Dark featuring Drake White! Panama City, FL – February 24, 2022 – Destination Panama City is pleased to announce “Downtown After Dark,” an outdoor, family-friendly event featuring popular country artist Drake White, at 5:30 p.m. CST on Friday, May 27 at the Destination Panama City Visitor’s Center on the #LovePC lawn. Local favorite Will Thompson will be the opening act. $10 General Admission tickets are available on the ticket portal. Tickets are limited and required for entry; so be sure to get them as soon as possible. All concert attendees must bring their own chair. No outside food or drink is allowed inside concert area. Non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase. We encourage you to make dinner plans before or after the event at any of our fine local Panama City restaurants HERE. Proceeds from concert ticket sales will benefit a current ecological project that will bring either a deployment of artificial snorkeling reefs or a living shoreline installation, which will be located in St. Andrew Bay just off the shoreline behind the new Destination Panama City welcome center. The reefs will be accessible for locals and visitors alike to enjoy – no special equipment required. The project is expected to be completed by Summer 2023. Check out these special event Group Lodging Rates from our Panama City lodging partners HERE! To listen to Drake White’s music is to fully experience the soul and rhythm of his upbringing in the Appalachian foothills of Northeastern Alabama. The undeniable sound of his soulful voice has whipped concert audiences across the country into a frenzy as Drake and his band, The Big Fire, raise the roof and summon spirits to life onstage. It’s equal parts Baptist tent revival and amped-up southern rock festival. As you watch Drake crank the energy level up higher and higher throughout the night, you feel as if you’d walked in on a live gospel album backed up by all-stars from The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Of course those acts hit musical pay dirt recording in Muscle Shoals, Alabama in the late ‘60s and ‘70s, a little over two hours west of Drake’s tiny hometown of Hokes Bluff. At 18 years old, Will Thompson sold everything he owned and took out a loan to buy recording equipment to fully realize the music he had been writing on his guitar. Locking himself away for months at a time he honed his skills as a producer, songwriter, singer. By the time Will got everything he wanted in the form of a record contract from his all time musical idol, he walked away from it all feeling like he wasn’t making the music he wanted to. After being haunted by the love he tried to leave behind, he knew it was time to return to his lifelong family calling in writing and recording songs. Will Thompson is recording/producing/writing and currently working on a new music, a mix of rock-country-funk sound that showcases stadium-ready songwriting and soulful production at every turn.