{"id":1481,"date":"2019-11-23T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thisdaddylife.com\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2019-11-23T09:10:40","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T14:10:40","slug":"movember-challenge-karaoke-toronto-2019-thank-yous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thisdaddylife.com\/2019\/11\/23\/movember-challenge-karaoke-toronto-2019-thank-yous\/","title":{"rendered":"Movember Challenge Karaoke Toronto 2019 Thank Yous \ud83c\udfa4"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the tenth year in a row, we have successfully held our Movember Challenge Karaoke Toronto<\/strong><\/span><\/big> fundraiser, and I am humbled\/happy\/wowed\/tired.<\/p>\n

A fantastic group of people came to Penny’s on Bloor St W. to sing, challenge, buy raffle tickets, cheer and donate money to a great cause. From about 9:45 pm to 2:10 pm the party grooved on with old friends and new coming together to help us put together a total of just over $1,400<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Thank you all.<\/p>\n

Thank you<\/em> to Jason Rolland<\/strong><\/span><\/a> who is our guy for karaoke and DJ services and has hosted each and every Movember Challenge Karaoke Toronto event over the years. Thank you<\/em> to Olivia who owns Penny’s Bar<\/strong><\/span><\/a> and is crazy generous with prize donations and buying raffle tickets and taking care of us and letting us hold the event in her bar and just being great. Thank you<\/em> to Andrij at The Other Half Men’s Shoppe<\/a><\/strong><\/span> for a very generous donation of raffle prizes. Like wow. Thank you<\/em> to Mohan at Toby’s Pub on College St. who always donates gift certificates. Thank you<\/em> to every person who challenged or bought raffle tickets or donated $5 and sang a song or two. Thank you<\/em> to them all.<\/p>\n

And thank you to Sean.<\/p>\n

10 years ago at Tequila Sun Rise on King St W (RIP), Sean and I barely knew each other and somehow started talking about Movember and the concept of challenge karaoke and how that would work. That first fundraiser had some random raffle prizes, a few kinks in how the challenge parts worked, and on a rainy, cold, Tuesday night we raised $560.<\/p>\n