I give out a small unofficial award for some of my favorite original songs in English that are part of the Open Mic contest. (Except all winners are instrumental this week.) How do I participate? * Make a valid entry to Open Mic. * Make sure the title makes it clear that the song is original and in English or an instrumental. * Be someone other than me. (Sorry Spanish musicians. You guys are great but I don't understand well enough to evaluate the songs.) Everyone I select gets these prizes: * A full upvote from me on their post. * 6 SBD transfer * One more full upvote if they comment on this post. Since both posts are new enough I'm going to wait and vote them tomorrow when I get 2200 SP in delegation back. Things are going to be a little different next week since I have a convention next weekend and won't be able to listen to the songs at my normal time. I'm going to try to keep up through the week and make the post right after the deadline, but if I don't manage that it will be into next week before the post goes up. It will still happen, though, just possibly late.

Winners in no particular order:

"Original Piano Song" by @samidbarid
I just continue to be a huge fan of your work. Love the varied energy in this piece especially.

"Fading" by @dreamrafa

This would be very impressive if it had been written beforehand. As an improvisation I'm completely blown away. Great work.

Open Mic Support

I have a challenge for other people to do just what I'm doing here: create a nonprofit curation post featuring songs that you love from Open Mic and giving the post rewards to the performers. I'd really love it if we could get a whole bunch of these going. Basic details are in this post. I'm pledging a 100% upvote to help get your posts' growth started, and to make sure you get something out of it, I'll buy you a @steembasicincome share (worth 0.5 Steem) every week you participate. Feel free to take my format or create one of your own. Mention me in the post, or come to the SBI Discord where I have a channel just for this project, or hit me up on the Open Mic Discord or anywhere else you happen to see me. The tag for this project is #openmicsupport

Hey! Before you upvote this post!

**If you want to upvote because you liked the songs, go upvote *their* posts!** (If their posts have paid out, see if they've commented here and give them an upvote.) If you want to upvote this one *also* that's fine but please reward the songwriters first.