Steemit Open Mic is an online, live music venue to give musicians a chance to share their music with the Steemit community and get their music heard.

RECENT CHANGES TO DTUBE NOW REQUIRE THAT DTUBE IS THE FIRST TAG WHEN USING DTUBE. TO ENTER OPEN MIC WE NEED OPENMIC TO BE THE FIRST TAG SO WE CAN UPVOTE YOU WITH THE OPENMIC TRAIL AND INCLUDE YOU IN THIS WEEKLY POST OF ENTRIES

Many people are not aware of the changes DTube made and that is why many of those who entered using DTube this week were not included in this weeks see who played open mic post. To get the full benefit of upvotes from the open mic community please follow the rules and make openmic the first tag. We will let you know if this changes in the future. Thanks for understanding.

Luzcypher's Announcement For Steem Witness

If you would like to delegate to OpenMic you can do so by clicking on the following links:

50SP, 100SP, 250SP, 500SP, 1000SP, 5000SP

Be sure to leave at least 50SP undelegated on your account.

Let's Keep @pfunk In The Top 20 Witnesses By Voting For Him As A Steemit Witness

@pfunk

@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

@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

@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

Steemit Musicians with Krystle, Shane, and Isaria

@steemcreative is a witness run by @swelker101 and @isaria and they host a weekly program with @krystle at MSP-Waves radio 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.

Special thanks to @lukestokes for his delegation of 5,000 SP to the @openmic account. This helps each entry earn a little more for their performances.

Did you know that you can earn curation rewards while supporting musicians on Steemit? Read this to discover how.

Following the Open Mic Trail only upvotes people who enter Open Mic. You Still have to upvote this post manually to support the Open Mic Project.

You can read more about it here:

How To Support Musicians On Steemit And Earn Curation Rewards By Following The Open Mic Trail --- by @luzcypher

@trevorpetrie just started an MP3 Open Mic Radio Station for everyone entering Open Mic. You can learn more about that here:

http://3steem.com/openmicradio/

The cutoff date to enter however was 12.00 PM UTC Time (Friday, 4th January 2019). Find your UTC time here. Entries posted late will not be upvoted. Please get your entries in on time. Thank you.##

Winners will be announced Monday, the 7th of January 2019.

Steemit Open Mic Week 118

Steemit Open Mic is growing so fast and a lot of people are entering without really reading the rules so I want to do a little house cleaning for those entering the contest.

The bigger this grows the easier it is to miss someone's entry post so following these rules makes us see you have entered so we can upvote you.

For more on the rules read, What Are The Rules To Enter Steemit Open Mic And Why Do We Have Rules Anyways?

Steemit Open Mic is a live music contest and we need to know that you are really playing or singing us a song for this contest in particular. That's why to qualify for prizes you must say "Steemit Open Mic Week" (next week number) and your username at the beginning of your video just before you play or sing the song. If you don't or if you edit in later onto a prerecorded performance you will not qualify for prizes.

If your song is an original song then you MUST put the word "original" in your title. Original songs get a small bonus right now and it is easier to find all the original songs with the word added in the title.

The next thing that is very important it to begin your title with "Steemit Open Mic Week (the current week number)" and place that as the first words of your title or I may not be able to find your post at all.

Here is a perfect example of a correctly titled post to enter Steemit Open Mic for an original song.

steemit open mic post titled correctly.png

This would be a perfectly titled post for a cover song entering the contest.

properly titled post for a cover song on Steeit .png

Theses posts are really easy to find in the feed and upvote them. They can easily be spotted so none of them get missed.

NOTE: The order this chart lists the performances has no bearing on choosing the finalists. Just because a video is at the top doesn't mean they will win the contest. They are posted in the order that they were entered.

Steemit Open Mic Week 118 performances are in and there's still time to vote for your favorites.

Great songs and performances this week. Have a listen to them below and be sure to show your support and upvote your favorites.

It's all in good fun and community spirit and I want to thank everyone for their enthusiastic support.

There's still time to vote and enter.
Thanks to everyone who entered, upvoted, resteemed and helped support Steemit Open Mic.

Two ways To Vote

You can vote by clicking on this week's contest page, scrolling down to the comments to find each performers link and vote for your favorite entry.

This weeks contest page is:

Steemit Open Mic Night Week 118 - Record Your Performance On Your Phone, Enter And Win Steem - Sponsored by @pfunk @luzcypher

Vote On Each Contestant Page

Below are blog links to contestants who entered this week in the order they were entered

“Fireflies” --- by @drewley

{cover}The nobodies --- by @xxxplasticman

original - I'm Leavin' Town --- by @markaustin

🎧 Steemit - 🎧 -Despedida(canción original) // Farewell (original song) # Patrocinado por @Luzcypher & @Pfunk --- by @edwardstobia

Fix You (Cover) - Coldplay --- by @tomashofficial

| River Flows in You - Yiruma (Cover) --- by @bettyamv

NO YOUTUBE VIDEO ADDED SO I CANNOT ADD IT HERE

Plegarias al Niño Jesús ( Originalsong ) --- by @raymondelaparra

🎼 - Año Viejo (Cover Violin)🎻 por @ --- by @kkarenmp

"Faltan 5 pa' las doce" (Coversong) --- by @gaborockstar

: "Sex And Candy" (Marcy Playground Cover) --- by @k0wsk1

Gary Jules - Mad World --- by @futuremind

°Ven a mi casa esta navidad° @ --- by @anaislili09

Steemit : Original Song - Lakes of Fear --- by @montycashmusic

– Héroe (cover) por @DearW. --- by @dearw

Justin Bieber-love yourself (cover) --- by @skiwzz

: Jolene(cover) --- by @tarotbyfergus

Thesimpson --- by @thesimpson

¨( Otra triste historia ) By Oliver Original Song --- by @oliverjobs

Steemit - - Revolution --- by @adreini

[VIDEO] - Original guitar composition --- by @donatello

MERIDEÑA-@ --- by @donlucho

: Pigs on the wing --- by @steevc

| Martha Tiene un Marcapasos - Hombres G | Armoniritmia Ft. LeMusic JamBand | Cover (Drums View) --- by @armoniritmia

: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" --- by @kayclarity

Ghost Of Perdition Intro (Opeth Cover) --- by @dreamrafa

Original Instrumental Guitar --- by @lk666

: Cover — Sky Full of Song --- by @katrina-ariel

Marry Me Archie by Alvvays (cover) --- by @popsoz

Sweet child O' mine (Cover) --- by @isabelmetlige

If you would like to delegate to OpenMic you can do so by clicking on the following links:

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Be sure to leave at least 50SP undelegated on your account.

You can support more community projects like Open Mic by voting for me as a Steem witness. Why? Read this post to discover how.

Luzcypher's Announcement For Steem Witness

Connect With The Music Community On Steemit

Steemit Musicians with Krystle, Shane, and Isaria

Songwriters Shoptalk with @meno

Each Wednesday night 10-pm Eastern Time you can tune into mspwaves.com and hear interviews, recordings, and live performances from Steemian songwriters Drill down into the craft of songwriting and connect with the artists behind the music Get into MSP/PALNET and become part of our amazing powerful community.

Spotlight On The Artist with @d-vine

Every Friday connect with musical artists on the Steem blockchain with super host @d-vine, Get into MSP/PALNET and become part of our amazing powerful community. CEST 08:00 pm - 10:00 pm UTC 07:00 pm - 09:00 pm EDT 02:00 pm - 04:00 pm PDT 11:00 am - 01:00 pm

Pitch Perfect with @alejandra23

A weekly musical contest. Are you a singer? This is the perfect place. Do you make rap? Come and participate. Are you an instrument performer? Hosted by @d-vine, Go see the latest Pitch Perfect post to get involved.

This is open to any kind of music performer in any genre. You can be original if you wish, or you can interpret a song already created, what is sought in this contest is the passion with which you make your presentation, captivate with your interpretation and of course have fun.

Cover A Steemian with @pechichemena

Cover another song by fellow musicians on Steemit. and use the tag coverasteemian and they just may cover you back. Great way to share music and build connections on the platform.

DSound, Decentralized Sound Platform

DSound is like SoundCloud only decentralized on the Steem blockchain. Artists can upload their works and hear others music, connect with other artists and earn rewards from community votes. DSound is created by @prc

To get involved click on DSound and start making music.

Steemit Open Mic trading Cards

For those who do not know, Cards & Tokens is organizing a Steemit Openmic card contest. The winners will be chosen based exclusively on the number of votes each card received. The competitors must first claim the authorship of their card, which will generate a new POST that will leave reflected on the steem blockchain the data of the card and thus it will be enabled to receive votes.