Beard Liberation Front
28th March
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Beard of Spring Final Vote: These are the beards/that point the way*
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that voting is now open in the final Round of the coveted Beard of Spring Award.
Four leading beard wearers are in contention.
They are author Michael Rosen and railway historian Tim Dunn who headed up Round Two together with ICU Doctor Prof Hugh Montgomery and Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell who shaved the opposition to win Round One
Beard of Spring is the second of four seasonal awards that lead to the Beard of the Year in December.
The campaigners say that while the second seasonal award of the year traditionally focuses on new beard growth, the focus in 2021 is as much on those whose beards have appeared in a positive public light during the most challenging of quarters.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, the Beard of Spring poll sets the beard-benchmark for the period ahead when beards can be safely flaunted in public as the weather improves.
The vote is open now and will close on March 31st.
In this extraordinary period the BLF says that no outright ‘winner’ will be declared. Rather the leading beards of Spring 2021 will be celebrated
Vote at this link:
Beard of Spring 2021
Steve Bell, cartoonist
Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York
Michael Rosen, Author
Tim Dunn, railway historian
Kevin Courtney, Joint GS NEU
Garret Oliver, Brewer, Brooklyn brewery
Prof. Hugh Montgomery, ICU doctor
Prince Harry, personality
*extract from a tweet by Michael Rosen
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