1st Annual Tybee Wine Fest

The first Tybee Wine Festival benefiting the restoration of the historic Tybee Post Theater was an amazing event. May 9th at the Lighthouse was a beautiful Tybee afternoon with over 300 people in attendance tasting over 100 wines from all over the world. Attendees also enjoyed the talents of some of the island’s best chefs and the music from the band FOFOTT. Old Savannah Tours provided trolley service to the theater for people to tour the theater and see the progress and future plans.

Lots of folks took the tour and saw the theater for the first time. All the proceeds will go to “Burn the Mortgage” and “Raise the Curtain” hopefully in 2010. Many great people shared their time, resources and donations to make this festival a reality.

Check out more great photos at:

The Tybee Times

The Friends of the Tybee Theater would like to thank each and every one. Without their contributions the festival would not have happen. To our wine vendors and restaurants, THANK YOU!

• Savannah Distributing Wines
  
• Empire Distributors
  
• Atlanta Wholesale Wine
• National Distributing Company
  
• Ultimate Distributors
  
• Georgia Crown Distributing
• Quality Wine & Spirits
  
• Prestige Wine Wholesale
  

• Sting Ray’s
  
• Sundae Café
  
• The Breakfast Club
  
• Fannies on the Beach
  
• Marlin Monroe’s
  
• Papa’s Bar-B-Que
• The Hunter House

To our sponsors – Thank you for your financial support to underwrite the cost of the festival.

• City of Tybee
  
• Tybee Tourism Council
• TIHS/Tybee Island Light Station
  
• Tybee Cottages
• Chu’s Convenience Marts/Chu’s Liquor
  
• XYZ Liquors
• Atlantis Inn
  
• Solomon Properties
• Mermaid Cottages
  
• Tybee Vacation Rentals
• My Beach House Rentals
  
• Lighthouse Inn
• Crab Shack
  
• Desoto Beach Hotel
• Sandy’s by the Shore
  
• Lat 32
• Seaside Sisters
  
• Tybee Beach Vacation Rentals
• Ed & Jane Feiler
  
• Linda & Ron Gladdin
• Ralph Douglas Jones
  
• Old Savannah Tours
  
• Will Green
• Image Is Everything
  
• Tybee Beach Vacation Rentals

To our wonderful and talented Volunteers – Thank you for your talents and the gift of your time to create the festival and make it so enjoyable for all that attended.

Michael Graham, Lamar Outdoor, who designed our wonderful poster

The FOFOTT Band: Steve Bryan, Rhett Mouchet, Ed Ayers, Ross Kelly, Roy Franco

Twila Davis, Richard Adams, Cullen Chambers, Ginger & Steve Strickland, First City Enterprises, Nick & Diana Sears, Cindy & Craig Meyer, Bonnie Gaster, Sue Waters Reese, Sherry Weathers, Robin Turner, Vivian Dubuc, Tybee Breeze, Cyndi Kinkel, Tybee Times, Resort Rentals, Sue & Bill Blakey, John & Mildred Hill, Suzi Nesbit, Dianna Solomon, Julie Weiler, Sue Bentley, Savannah Buchanan, Karen Penick, Cindy Young, Sally & Charles Yarber, John & Jessica Mnieckowski, Frank & Karen Kelly, Susan Holiday, Terry Spatz, Maria Lancaster, Cort & John Atkinson, Michael Bodine, Ken Carter, Len Cripe, Gordon Matthews, Susie Morris, Cecil & Elizabeth Johnson.

And all of the any volunteers of Friends of the Tybee Theater

Cindy Meyer
FOTT Special Events Coordinator