I give out a small unofficial award for some of my favorite original songs in English that are part of the Open Mic contest. 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. * 4 SBD transfer * One more full upvote if they comment on this post. There are two feeder posts this week since I made a mistake posting the first one, and then it got a subsidiary Curie, and @pfunk voted the valid entry, and all of the author rewards there and here go to the prizes, and it's difficult to choose between the entries I really like this week, so I'm just going to go ahead and give out five winners.

Winners in no particular order:

"Currere" by @samidbarid
Maybe it's just that I'm breaking out the piano for next week's entry, but the technical skill here is particularly striking to me this week. Particularly the way you switch between modes smoothly is really impressive.

"Detroit City Boy" by @mightyjoenolan

I really love the lyricism here, it's both distinctive and vivid.
"The Flood" by @michaeldietrich

Michael rocks us out again this week.
"Both Running" by @kayclarity

Doing a chorus-heavy song really relies on having an excellent chorus, and this one knocks it out of the park. It's the sort that grows on me, and becomes more meaningful with every repetition. Good job. "Come My Way" by @lillywilton with @pechichemena, @piterman, and @paloelorza

It's always great to see someone get a level-up, and even more so when it's someone who was already at a high level. Lilly's already been excellent at both singing and writing, and now we've seen what adding expert production can bring. I hope you do a lot of great work together.

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.