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. * 6 SBD transfer * One more full upvote if they comment on this post. My vote's kind of crap this week, sorry. It will be for a few weeks yet, though I'm going to take two of them off for vacation before too long. As usual there will probably be a second prize round; @pfunk already came along and voted the feeder post, and all author rewards from this post will go to the prizes as well. Two winners, one English, one instrumental:

Winners in no particular order:

"Home" by @wildfamily
This is a pretty simple song, but I really love the simplicity of the lyrics and the available harmonies. The second time through I found myself picking up a baritone part, and I don't think it's the only one. Seems like a great song to teach to a large group that can do eight-part harmony on it.

"One Take" by @fernando.lubezki

Just loving the groove through the middle here.

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.