If you love celebrating St. Patrick’s Day, but don’t particularly care for going downtown to Savannah’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade, where you’ll be met by
throngs of people (somewhere around 400,000), craziness and mayhem, then you are in for a treat!
Tybee hosts its own version, The Irish Heritage Celebration Parade. This family-friendly event is held every year on the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day.
Tybee is known for its love of parades (seems like we have one every month), but most of us consider this one our premiere parade of the year. Maybe
it’s because this event pretty much starts our influx of people to Tybee. Winter is behind us and we are ready to welcome tourists and visitors to our
little piece of paradise!
Our parade isn’t as big as Savannah’s, but it’s just as good. There will be many Tybee Clans, a Grand Marshall, politicians, bands, Shriners, Leprechauns,
Tybee floats, Irish Dancers, Junkanoo Band (they are a crowd favorite and come every year from the Bahamas), Coast Guard, Fire Department, and a
sea of green. Also, you’ll see a lot of Tybee characters, which makes for some good people watching.
Any place on Butler Ave. from City Hall, down Tybrisa is a good place to
watch the parade.
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This year our parade will be held on Saturday, March 14, at 3pm. Our
island is sure to be hopping with lots of fun loving people and it’s a great
day to be out and about, enjoying all that Tybee has to offer.
So get out your green, dust off your beads and be prepared for a familyfun
time!
Hope to see you there!
TYBEE’S
IRISH HERITAGE CELEBRATION PARADE
By Margie McLellan