Mayday Brewery will celebrate its first anniversary in mid-November with live music and moustache shenanigans to benefit prostate cancer awareness and research.
As part of its one-year anniversary, the local brewery will host this year’s Movember celebration from 4-10 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 15.
Grow a ‘stache and dress as your favorite be-moustached character. Then you can compete in the Famous Moustache Costume Contest for a suggested $1 donation. If your facial hair resembles that of a prepubescent boy, feel free to buy a faux ‘stache for $1 during the event.
And because all ladies secretly adore moustaches, this year’s Movember fundraiser will feature a Date Auction with five moustache-donning, beer drinking single men. Bid, dine and love it!
Mayday Brewery will match each moustache dollar raised during the Movember celebration.
“Any excuse is a good one to grow a moustache, but this charity is a great one,” says Ozzy Nelson, founder of Mayday Brewery. “My father and my father-in-law have had prostate cancer, and I believe celebrating Movember with the first anniversary of the brewery is perfect.”
Local musical favorites Them Vibes, Thelma & the Sleaze and Planet Ink will set the fundraising mood for Movember. There’s no cover, but feel free to tip the bands generously.
Movember, the month formerly known as November, aims at garnering prostate cancer awareness (movember.com). Rates of prostate cancer in men are comparable to breast cancer rates in women, with a man being diagnosed with the disease every 2.7 minutes.
According to recent findings, men are 40 percent more likely than women to die from cancer due to the simple act of putting off doctor visits and failing to lead a proactively healthy lifestyle.
Each Movember, men are challenged to start the month clean-shaven and grow a moustache. The moustache becomes the hairy ribbon for men’s health and the guys growing them become a walking billboard for 30 days. The growth of a new moustache sparks hundreds of conversations about the seemingly taboo topics of men’s health and prostate cancer.
Now worn by hipsters and lumberjacks alike, the moustache has come a long way since its 1980s creepy-guy stereotype.
In 2010, Murfreesboro resident and MTSU graduate Jonathan Taylor sought to educate locals about Movember and prostate cancer awareness. While most people he encounters have never heard of Movember, Taylor believes it is an excellent platform for raising awareness for prostate cancer and men’s health.
“Most guys associate November with ‘No Shave November,’ but this tradition doesn’t have any ties to a charitable movement,” Taylor explained.
For more information about this year’s Movember in Murfreesboro, visit us.movember.com/team/975065 or check out Mayday Brewery on Facebook.
