Thanks to everyone who entered and supported Open Mic Week 96. Community support for Open Mic has been tremendous and is one of many projects bringing the music community together on Steemit.
We had 189 valid entries this week! Awesome guys!
Support Musicians On Steemit
How To Support Musicians On Steemit And Earn Curation Rewards By Following The Open Mic Trail --- by @luzcypher
Operation We Are The Open Mic --- by @meno
Let's Keep @pfunk In The Top 20 Witnesses By Voting For Him As A Steemit Witness
@pfunk has been sponsoring Steemit Open Mic since I first started it and I want to give a big thank you to him and all the people who support and take part in Steemit Open Mic.
@pfunk is a Steemit witness and helps keep the platform working and you can vote for him here Please go vote for him right now. This post will show you how.
Vote For Pfunk For Witness And Keep Steemit Open Mic Growing Strong We Need Your Help Now
More Open Mic Sponsors
Over the last week Open Mic was contacted and offered some more sponsorship from:
@ausbitbank is a top 20 witness on Steemit involved in more supporting projects on the Steem blockchain than I can list. He is a big part of the minnowsupportproject.org, the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty network on Discord, and delegates to many good causes on Steemit. You can vote for him as a wtness here. He just reached out and donated 100 Steem per week to help Open Mic
@Curie helps curate new people who contribute good content and has been supporting Open Mic musicians behind the scenes since Open Mic started. They helped me and countless others get our posts seen when we first started on the platform. Many Open Mic musicians have been featured on their weekly Author's Showcase posts. They are a top 20 witness and have contributed 25 Steem per week for the next two months to help Open Mic. You can vote for them as witness here
MSP-Waves Radio in association with the Minnow Support Project and the Peace, Abundance, Liberty Network is a weekly radio program hosted by @Krystle, @swelker101, and @isaria that features the weekly Top 5 judges picks from Steemit Open Mic. Not only do they give weekly prizes to audience picked performers from the contest, but they have also started sponsoring Open Mic with a 25 Steem weekly donation! How cool is that? Thank you for helping support musicians on the Steemit platform.
@aggroed is a top 20 witness and is involved in the minnowsupportproject.org and the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty network on Discord. He is launching a new online card game called SteemMonsters.com. Steem Monsters is supporting Open Mic with a 50 Steem donation per week to the contest. He's also gifting a 5-card Steem Monster pack to the winner's. You can vote for him as witness here
What Is SteemMonsters.com?
And thanks to @meno's initiative the community has come together to support Open Mic. Many of you have created posts in support of the Open Mic community and have donated a portion of the rewards from those posts to @openmic so we can keep doing what we do, build a great community of musicians on Steemit. You guys are the best and we feel appreciative and inspired!
Operation We Are The Open Mic --- by @meno
Steemit Open Mic Rules
- The cutoff date for entries was Friday the 3rd of August, 2018 at 12 UTC TIME Find your UTC time here.
- Only 1 entry per person per week
- "Steemit Open Mic Week 96" must the beginning of the post title.
- "Steemit Open Mic Week 96" must be said at the beginning of your video and your username.
- Live performances only specifically made for this contest.
- openmic must be the first tag
- Add a link to your post in the comments of the contest post.
- You must upvote this post.
- If your song is an original song then add the word "Original" somewhere in your title
- You can use DTube but include an embedded YouTube or Vimeo video too.
Steemit Open Mic Loves Dtube So Why Do I Have To Add A Youtube Video To My Open Mic Entry --- by @luzcypher
Entries must follow these rules to earn prizes.
Big shout out to @lukestokes who delegated 5,000 SP to the @openmic account! Thanks for your support.
I just want to remind everyone that votes are only part of the selection process. Entertainment value and performance is factored in too.
To learn more about the rules to entering the contest please read What Are The Rules To Enter Steemit Open Mic And Why Do We Have Rules Anyways
Common Questions When Entering Steemit Open Mic --- by @luzcypher
The coolest thing about Open Mic is it brings the Steemit community together and that is the whole point of this project.
Meet up with the Open Mic community at Open Mic on Discord and chat with all of the people who enter Open Mic there. It's a great way to interact with the Open Mic community. Your links to your entry is automatically added to the Discord channel, so please don't add links, just come to chat with the community.
Join the Facebook page for Steemit Musicians you can read about here or go straight to the page here. A lot of players from Steemit Open Mic are there.
Steemit Open Mic Judges
@soundlegion, @krystle, @verbal-d, @passion-ground, and @meno
Music Creators Guide To Copyrights, Royalties, And Recording Contracts
Common Questions When Entering Steemit Open Mic --- by @luzcypher
How To Support Musicians On Steemit And Earn Curation Rewards By Following The Open Mic Trail --- by @luzcypher
Steemit Open Mic Is About Building A Community Of Musicians On Steemit Not About Winning --- by @luzcypher
Official Open Mic Or Passion Ground S Top 5 Entries For Week 96 --- by @passion-ground
Openmic Week 96 Soundlegion Top Picks List Honorable Mentions Top 5 Picks --- by @soundlegion
Open Mic Week 96 Top 5 Selection And Honorable Mentions --- by @meno
Steemit S Official Open Mic Judge Verbal D S Top 5 Entries For Week 96 Original Blog --- by @verbal-d
Steemit Open Mic Loves Dtube So Why Do I Have To Add A Youtube Video To My Open Mic Entry --- by @luzcypher
Special thanks to @soundlegion, @passion-ground, and @meno for help judging the contest this week. Great job guys.
Steemit Open Mic is not about winning or losing, it's about building a connections on Steemit through music. Watching the collaborations happen online between musicians who played and met on Steemit Open Mic is very rewarding and many of the people who play and post earn some nice rewards for playing a song.
For many, it's easier to get some Steem in your tip jar by playing for Steemit Open Mic than it is to play music on the street.
Steemit Open Mic Trending Posts
Click here to see the current trending posts on Steemit Open Mic
Top 20 Trending Open Mic Posts
The openmic tag has earned a total of: 231,225.872 SBD worth $249,723.94 USD At Today's Prices of $1.08 SBD (Average of $2,601.29 per week in 96 weeks +plus has paid out over 27,300 Steem in prizes worth !
NOTE: Having a trending post is not how judges pick entries for their Top 5 weekly picks. Sometimes you will trend because of a variety of reasons. Congratulations! You don't need to win Open Mic to earn rewards and build your audience. As you can see, sometimes trending posts earn more than the contest rewards! You could trend by getting curated by other curation groups like @curie for example. The judges look for entertainment value which, of course, is very subjective and varies over time. Just keep playing and engaging with the community which is the whole point of Open Mic. If you love music, we love you.
The most recent top earning posts were:
This chart is provided by @carlgnash.
Congratulations to all of you who trended this week on Open Mic!
Winners from Steemit Open Mic Week 96
It is not getting any easier to pick with all this talent and it is so hard picking winners every week even with 5 judges.
Honorable mentions this week in no particular order are: @abelfernandez, @jotadiaz12, @dianakyv, @melavie, @mariajruizb, @k0wsk1, @davidfar, @tribedownsouth, @belenlopr, @nilssonleiva, @esthersanchez, @wilins, @shookriya, @k0wsk1, @katrina-ariel, and many more on our radar. We Love You All!
and the winners are...
1st Place
You won 80 Steem and a 5-Pack of Steem Monster cards.
Steemit Open Mic Week 96 Or Little Truthful One Or Daily Musings Original Song --- by @daily-musings
*"Stopped me in my tracks, totally melted to this. Fantastic performance @daily-musing. This crawled all over me, I love the lyrics and your voice is just mmm amazing, very somber and soothing. I absolutely loved it, stole the heart in my ears this evening" * - @soundlegion
What a beautiful little song. Honestly, this reminded me a bit of Andrew Bird's style, and that might not make any sense to anyone else but me. It's almost as if the goal is to make you lower your guard, then, once you think it's safe, it pushes you into that emotional vulnerability. I loved it... -@meno
2nd Place
You won 40 Steem and a 5-Pack of Steem Monster cards.
Steemit Open Mic Week 96 - Reflejos ( original song ) --- by @pechichemena
From the very first time I heard him perform, and ever since, I have developed great respect for Pechiche as an artist, songwriter, performer, and composer. I have gotten to know him very well over the past year, and my relationship with him has intensified greatly since we’ve been working so closely together on the Open-Mic Collaboration project. Be that as it may, if I were listening to “Reflejos” for the very first time – and I knew nothing of @pechichemena at all, this entry would still be at the top of my list for week 96. There’s no doubt about this… This entry is hands-down incredible! The production is stellar, the composition sweet, the performance impassioned, and the execution flawless! I love this song so much, and I’m sure you will too! - @passion-ground
*"@pechichemna has such a lovely voice, it's like perfect clarity and soft tone, so gentle and pulling. The production going on this original song performance is great, i love how well this is put together, such a professional sound Pechi! you are really lighting up this community with your talents. You not only create fantastic original pieces such as this, but your helping others to get fantastic productions on there material, it's an honor to hear you perform every time." * - @soundlegion
Before anyone accuses me of favoritism or anything of the sort, please click play on this song, please. I feel at times that I have to ignore the talented Pechi just to avoid drama, however this week, I just could not do it. He even nailed the guitar solo to the T. - @meno
3rd Place
You won 26 Steem and a 5-Pack of Steem Monster cards.
Steemit Openmic Week 96- Lloro - Jose Cabrera - (Tree Cover) --- by @joseacabrerav
Jose is an exceptionally talented young musician! His original compositions are on par with great covers such as his week 96 entry, “Lloro,” with which he has done a remarkable job interpreting. Jose is full of hope, energy, and immense potential… I’m certain that if he remains grounded and focused, that the future will indeed be very bright for one Mister Jose Acabrerav! - @passion-ground
" oh baby!!! coolest cat in the joint! I love @joseacabrerav and he comes through yet again with a beautiful performance, the full sound set is fantastic, those drums mmm, absolute quality guys, what a treat to get inside a performance like this, was bobbin my head the entire time, infact I wanted more at the end! huge love" - @soundlegion
Am I surprised Jose is on my list again this week? No, not really, not in the slightest. I'm honestly convinced that Jose one day will be touring the world. Nobody can convince me otherwise, not only for his talent, of course, but for his personality and charisma.
If you disagree, that's because you've not seen him grow as an artist like we have here in the #openmic family. Before my eyes I saw a young man that could sing start to carve out his little legacy. - @meno
4th Place
You won 26 Steem and a 5-Pack of Steem Monster cards.
Steemit Open Mic Week 96 - "The Wrong Way" (original) --- by @lillywilton
Yes, I am still very much smitten with the notoriously talented, Lilly Wilton! With her latest composition, “The Wrong Way,” Lilly has loved me up in just the “right way,” - and even though it burns – I love it! And so will you – trust me! - @passion-ground
" @lillywilton has such a pristine voice, I hope it does not offend when I say every time I hear her sing I am imaging the voice of a Disney princess. I mean this in a very good way, she has that warming open capture with vocal pipes that is very inviting. I love the Uke as well you handle that thing so pro, great work always a pleasure to see feel and hear such beauty."* - @soundlegion
I'm convinced Lilly has a unique defense mechanism that would ensure her survival even post a Zombie apocalypse. She would just sing you a song, smite you, weaken you, and next thing you know, you become her servant. I swear, I just love listening to this tiny little angel sing. It must be the third or fourth time I hit play today... - @meno
5th Place
You won 26 Steem and a 5-Pack of Steem Monster cards.
Steemit Openmic Week 96 // Queen: Show must go on// --- by @silentscreamer
There is no doubt that SS has that special something! Her creativity is boundless as is her tenacity to produce and excel in everything that she does. Marica’s cover of Queens, “Show Must Go On,” is a perfect testament to the iron will and exquisite artistry of Silent-Screamer! - @passion-ground
Woah... So I saw Silent tackling this one and thought to myself - "Well... if anyone can pull it off, is probably her" - and of course she did. I love how @silentscreamer is always trying to outdo herself, I think that is her biggest strength. I would not be surprised if one of these days she attempts Bohemian rhapsody, not in the slightest. - @meno
Here's a screenshot of the prizes transferred to the winners this week.
Congratulation Everyone And Thanks For Playing Steemit Open Mic. Winners can collect their Steem Monster Cards at SteemMonsters.com#
Steemit Open Mic Is About Building A Community Of Musicians On Steemit, Not About Winning --- by @luzcypher
Congratulations guys! Thanks again to everyone that entered. Thanks to our sponsors @pfunk, @ausbitbank, @curie, @aggroed, @isaria, and @steemmonsters for sponsoring Open Mic!
Vote And Enter Open Mic Week 97 by Following This Link
Steemit Open Mic Week 97 Record Your Performance And Win Steem Sponsored By Pfunk And Luzcypher --- by @luzcypher
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