The Wooten Brothers at the Tybee Post Theater: A Two-Night Live-Music Weekend (September 11–12, 2026)

A band with ten Grammy Awards among its members is playing a 1930 movie house on Tybee Island this Friday night. The Wooten Brothers (Victor, Regi, Roy and Joseph) take the Tybee Post Theater stage on September 11 at 8 p.m., and the following evening the same room hosts the Savannah Men's Chorale for a night of Broadway repertoire. Two ticketed shows, back to back, on a small island in the first quiet week after Labor Day. That doesn't happen here often, and it's a better reason to book a night or two than either show would be on its own.

We should be upfront about where we sit in all this. Sea and Breeze is at 16 Tybrisa Street, in the South Beach hub at the island's south end. The Post Theater is not. What follows is the honest version of how to build a live-music weekend around those two facts, and why we'd still base the weekend at our end of the island.

First, the geography, stated plainly

The Tybee Post Theater is at 10 Van Horne Avenue, in the old Fort Screven area at the north end of the island, the same corner of Tybee as the lighthouse. From our end that's a couple of miles: a ten-minute drive, an easy bike ride, or a golf-cart trip on the side streets. It is not a walk from South Beach, and we're not going to pretend otherwise.

What the south end has instead is the after. Friday's show is listed 8 to 10 p.m., and when it lets out, you're at the end of the island that doesn't have the late-night strip. Tybrisa Street and the Strand (the island's walkable stretch of restaurants and bars, the block the visitor bureau calls a "lively pedestrian hub") sit at our end, at the foot of the pier. Drive back from the show and the evening doesn't have to be over. September is shoulder season and hours shift, so ask the front desk what's going rather than trusting a sign from July, but the shape of the thing holds: the show is up-island, the late night is down here.

Friday, September 11: the Wooten Brothers, 8–10 p.m.

The act needs less introduction than most things that pass through a small island theater. The Wooten Brothers are a family ensemble whose first public performance was in 1966. Between them, Victor, Regi, Roy and Joseph hold ten Grammy Awards and twenty-six nominations. Victor has been named by Rolling Stone among the greatest bass players of all time. The billing runs through R&B, funk and jazz fusion and leaves room to wander beyond all three, which is roughly what you'd hope for from a band sixty years into playing together.

The room is worth a few words too. The Post Theater opened in 1930, has been back in business since 2015, and now runs films, live music, comedy and theater through the year. It's the island's ticketed live-music room. A Grammy-collecting act in a historic house on a September Friday is exactly the kind of show people drive in for and then need somewhere to sleep.

Saturday, September 12: the Chorale, and a matinee

Saturday's show is a different animal entirely, which is rather the point of staying two nights. On Broadway brings the Savannah Men's Chorale to the same stage from 7 to 9 p.m. for an evening of Broadway numbers, and this edition carries some local weight: it honors Dr. Justin Addington, the chorale's founding conductor, as he steps down. If your Saturday-night speed is show tunes sung by a full chorale rather than funk bass, this is your half of the weekend. If both sound good, that's the whole argument for the second night.

There's a matinee that day as well: the theater screens Toy Story 5 from 3 to 5 p.m., should a slow afternoon need solving.

Tickets

Both shows sell through OvationTix and the theater's box office at 912-472-4790. The box office keeps short hours (Monday through Thursday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday 10 a.m. to noon), so if you're deciding on the day of the Friday show, the phone window closes at midday and online is the way in.

We're deliberately not quoting ticket prices. The theater doesn't publish them outside its ticketing pages, and a number that's stale by the time you read it helps nobody. Check the listing for current pricing and availability, and settle it before you drive up rather than after.

Getting up-island, and getting back

By car it's the simplest ten minutes of the weekend: up the island, park, show. A golf cart can make the run too, with one rule worth knowing first: carts are banned from Butler Avenue (it's Highway 80 as it passes through the island) except to cross at four marked intersections, so a cart trip north happens on the side streets. Cart drivers need a license and must be 16 or older, and rental operators set their own minimums, commonly 21 or 25, so check before you book one. On a mild September evening a bike is a genuinely pleasant option. The closest rental to the hub is Fat Tire Bikes at 1403 Butler Avenue, a few blocks up from Tybrisa. And if the plan involves a long dinner before the show, a rideshare up and back covers the gap without anyone drawing the short straw.

Whichever way you go, think about the return leg when you pick. The show ends at 10, the strip is at the other end of the island, and the whole point of basing south is that the night keeps going after the ride home.

Parking: the part we can make easy

Public parking on Tybee is paid everywhere, every day of the year: $4.00 an hour or a $25 day pass, enforced 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., paid by app or kiosk because the city no longer takes cash or coins. That's the backdrop against which a hotel lot earns its keep. Our guests park free on site, one car per room, and on a weekend like this the car does almost nothing: it sits still through the beach hours, skips the day pass entirely, and works for about twenty minutes a day, the run up to Van Horne Avenue and the run back.

We can't tell you what parking looks like immediately around the theater on a show night, because nobody publishes that. What we can tell you is the citywide rule above, and that meter enforcement ends at 8 p.m., which happens to be curtain time on Friday. The Saturday chorale starts at 7, so budget for an hour on the meter if you drive up early.

Where to stay

Here's our pitch, and its honest limits. We're a hotel on Tybrisa Street itself (steps from South Beach, though not on the sand), with the pier at the foot of our street and the strip's restaurants and bars starting at our door. Wet Willie's shares our street address at 16 Tybrisa. Check-in is at 4 p.m., which lands comfortably ahead of either curtain. And since this is a two-show weekend, our standing offers happen to fit it exactly: a two-night stay takes 10% off, a three-night stay takes 15%. Details are on the special offers page.

The honest limit: we are not the closest bed to the theater. We're at the opposite end of the island, and we've spent this whole post saying so. What we are is the closest thing to the after-show block. Pick your base by which half of the evening matters more: the two hours of the show, or everything that comes after it.

The rest of the weekend

The shows are two hours a night. The island fills the rest without much effort, and our South Beach weekend itinerary covers the full shape of a two-day stay if you want a template. The September-specific version looks like this.

Friday opens on a solemn note up-island: the lighthouse hosts a remembrance for the 25th anniversary of September 11, from 8:46 to 9 a.m. Later that morning there's a gentler standing tradition: free yoga on the beach at The Deck Beachbar & Kitchen, about a mile north of us at Mid Beach, Fridays at 9 a.m., weather permitting.

The beach itself is the default, and September is one of the better months to have it: the water is still warm and the crowds thin out after Labor Day. The pier at the foot of our street is free and open 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. The sunrise walk out over the Atlantic costs nothing and beats most of the island's paid attractions. For the Saturday gap between beach and chorale, a dolphin tour is the classic move. Boats run out of Lazaretto Creek at the island's west end (a short drive, not a walk) on trips of about an hour to ninety minutes. We wrote a full profile of Captain Derek's Dolphin Adventure if you want the long version. Either way, book online ahead rather than counting on a posted departure time, because there isn't one.

Dinner sorts itself on the strip. Doc's Bar has been on Tybrisa since 1948 and, per the island's visitor bureau, usually has live music on weekends, a fitting warm-up or nightcap for a weekend built around two shows. Sting Ray's up on Butler Avenue trades on its margaritas. Our dining page has the fuller list. Shoulder-season hours move around, so confirm before you set your heart on one spot.

And if you can stretch into Monday: the Tybee Island Farmers Market runs Mondays from 4 to 7 p.m. behind the lighthouse at 30 Meddin Drive, the same end of the island as the theater, and a good last errand before the bridge. The things to do page covers everything else worth knowing about.

A Grammy-laden Friday, a chorale Saturday, a warm and half-empty beach in between, and a parking spot whose main job is holding your car still. If that sounds like your kind of September weekend, check availability for the 11th and 12th. The second night is the one that earns the discount.