“Whim Whamiee” by Pluto and YkNiece played through speakers, connected to a generator on the beach for the fourth time in an hour, for spring breakers dancing and shouting the lyrics under the Tybee Island Pier & Pavilion.
Though Tybee Island leadership and Orange Crush festival organizers had worked for months to formalize an actual event for the annual spring break party, the real party for most of the day seemed to be far from where the stage had been set up.
Orange Crush Festival 2025, the version of it that is the first permitted event since 1991, seemed to be a mixed bag of success and failure. Orange Crush, the version that HBCU students across the east have known and loved, spread across college campuses and friend groups by word of mouth, though, was alive and well…