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. It is growing larger every week thanks to all of you.

I want to thank all the talented people that have made the Open Mic contest such a joy to host. It is a pleasure listening to everyone's music and getting to know you guys. Steemit is SO cool like that.

Luzcypher's Announcement For Steem Witness

Creating A New Dapp For Steemit Open Mic - Talks With @prc The Creator Of DSound

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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

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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

@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. You can vote for them as witness here

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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.

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From now on, anyone entering Open Mic must say Steemit Open Mic Week Number (current week number) and their username to have a valid entry. This is to stop scammers from stealing your video and entering it as their own.

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

What Are The Rules To Enter Steemit Open Mic And Why Do We Have Rules Anyways

Join Steemit Open Mic Night Week 116 and win Steem. Just Record, Post, Win! Come play or sing a song for Steemit.

Steemit Open Mic Rules

From now on, anyone entering Open Mic must say Steemit Open Mic Week Number (current week number) and their username to have a valid entry. This is to stop scammers from stealing your video and entering it as their own.

• The cutoff date for entries is Friday the 21st
  of December 2018. Submit your performance in the comment / reply section by 12.00 PM UTC Time (Friday 21st DECEMBER 2018). Find your UTC time here.
• Each week the contest starts on Sunday and ends on Friday. PLEASE DO NOT ENTER BEFORE SUNDAY the 16th of December
• Only 1 entry per person per week
• Steemit Open Mic Week 116 must the beginning of the post title.
• Steemit Open Mic Week 116 and your username must be said at the beginning of your video
• Live musical performances only specifically made for this contest. A musical instrument must be played in your performance.
• openmic must be the first tag
• Add a link to your post in the comments of this contest post.
• You must upvote this post
• Even if you use DTube a YouTube or Video embedded link must be added to your post too

Steemit Open Mic Loves Dtube So Why Do I Have To Add A Youtube Video To My Open Mic Entry --- by @luzcypher

NOTE: While we used to allow acapella performances to get in, recently there have been too many entries from singers without any musicians. Open Mic is a community of musicians and for this reason, tickets without a musical instrument will not be considered a valid entry. NO KARAOKE

Entries must follow these rules to earn prizes. For a more in-depth understanding of the rules read, What Are The Rules To Enter Steemit Open Mic And Why Do We Have Rules Anyways

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Hugo

It is very important to say the words "Steemit Open Mic Week 116" AND YOUR USERNAME at the beginning of your recorded video. Posts without those words spoken in the beginning of your live, recorded video do not qualify for prizes.

From now on, anyone entering Open Mic must say Steemit Open Mic Week Number (current week number) and their username to have a valid entry. This is to stop scammers from stealing your video and entering it as their own.

Here is an example of a correctly titled post.

These requirements make it easier for judges and curators to find your posts and upvote it. Ignoring these requirements only hurt your chances of earning rewards.

Steemit Open Mic News

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You can join the Open Mic community and chat with musicians on the Open Mic Discord Channel. Your posts are automatically posted to the Open Mic Discord channel when you make your post on your blog. You don't need to post links there, but it is a great place to connect with the community.

Steemit Open Mic Week 116

Thanks for supporting, upvoting, Resteeming and entering Steemit Open Mic, a community of music lovers for music lovers and musicians.

2 Votes = Win Win

You can help support Steemit Open Mic by making sure to vote two times.

• Once on this post so the payouts for the winners will make this contest self-supporting. We're very grateful @pfunk is helping out right now, but helping this post with upvotes gives more rewards to the winners and the contest will be self-supporting.

• And vote a 2nd time on the link of your favorite entry's post found in the comments below. This will help support all the musicians that entered, even if they didn't win the contest.

• In fact, some entries earned very well, even though they didn't win. And that's good because musicians need to eat.

**Winners from week 115 will be announced **, Monday, December 17th, 2018 so be sure to follow @luzcypher for updates and thanks for everyone that entered, upvoted and resteemed Steemit Open Mic.

Steemit Open Mic Process

Keeping it short and sweet, here is the flow of considerations for the Steemit Open Mic contest:-

• Need to promote community participation in the spirit of Steemit Open Mic night.

• So.. Steemit Open Mic submissions in comments, community voting and reblogging are encouraged.

• However, we need to avoid public vote abuse and keep a certain standard for Steemit Open Mic night.

• So.. community voting as the first filter, before internal voting.

• Another problem: late submissions are usually disadvantaged as they get less attention on the contest post.

• So.. we've tried to mitigate such a problem by including unique votes of Steemit Open Mic submissions in their own blog posts.

• IT IS CRUCIAL WHEN YOU RECORD YOUR VIDEO THAT YOU SAY "STEEMIT OPEN MIC WEEK 116" AND YOUR USERNAME AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR VIDEO

• We're looking for real live musical performances for this contest. Some people have posted old videos from YouTube and it's difficult to verify that it's really them performing. They will be disqualified from the contest.

• If you want a chance to earn the prize, make a new video and say STEEMIT OPEN MIC Week 116 at the start of it.

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How To Enter Steemit Open Mic

• In a well lit quiet room, use your cell phone to record your performance. See recording tips here and here

• SAY THE WORDS "STEEMIT OPEN MIC WEEK 116" AND YOUR USERNAME AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR VIDEO

• Upload your performance to YouTube or other video hosting site.

• Create a post on your own Steemit account pasting the URL of your uploaded video.

• IMPORTANT: THE FIRST WORDS IN YOUR POST MUST READ: STEEMIT OPEN MIC WEEK 116 before any other text in the title.

For example: STEEMIT Open Mic Week 116- Hold That Tiger by @cheetah*

• You can title your post anything you want just be sure the first words say STEEMIT OPEN MIC WEEK 116.

• VERY IMPORTANT: THE FIRST TAG ON YOUR POST MUST BE openmic All one word. No spaces.

• POST THE LINK TO YOUR POST IN THE COMMENTS OF THIS POST. This will increase your exposure and votes while increasing the amount of prize money AND WILL LET US KNOW YOU HAVE ENTERED

Judging, and Contest Prize

• Performances are not judged on production value, only on performance and entertainment value.

• Steemit Open Mic judges will deliberate 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th place based on the selected performances.

• Each week the prizes will be paid as follows:
• 1st place: 80 Steem
• 2nd place: 40 Steem
• 3rd place: 26 Steem
• 4th place: 26 Steem
• 5th place: 26 Steem

• All SBD's generated on your own post are yours to keep of course.
• You may also post your entry and comments on https://steemit.chat/channel/openmic
• or post your entries here

Images

You can use any images you want on your blog when you enter Steemit Open Mic. If you would like to help promote a common theme for the Steemit Open Mic Contest you may also use this image below.

Just copy and paste this code as the first image on your blog post.

<center>[![steemit-open-mic-week-116.png](https://i.postimg.cc/cJZxPCdK/steemit-open-mic-week-116.png)](https://steemit.com/@luzcypher)</center>

How To Get More Views To Your Entry

You can help get more views to your Steemit Open Mic entry and help grow the contest by Tweeting your blog post. You can also:

• Add it to Steemit Musicians on Facebook
• Add it to Steemit Open Mic on Steemit chat
• Add it to Post Promotion in Steemit chat
• Steemit Open Mic Post Promotion on Discord
• Join and add it to these Facebook groups:

1. Steemit Group 1
2. Steemit Group 2

Join The Open Mic Community On Discord

Come join us and chat with musicians in the Open Mic community on Discord:

NOTE:

Your post is automatically added to Discord when you post so you don't need to add your link there. Just come to connect with other musicians.

Disclaimer

• Make sure performances are your performance.

• The song does not have to be original, only your performance of the song.

• The Steemit Open Mic judges reserve the right to forfeit submissions that are misleading.

Remember to follow these rules so we can find and reward your post.

New Music Category Communities

Music Category communities are coming together on Steemit and if you're a music lover, please show support and join in the fun. Here are a few new places to find great music.

• How To Support Musicians On Steemit And Earn Curation Rewards By Following The Open Mic Trail

• Operation We Are The Open Mic --- by @meno
  

• Steemit Open Mic Loves Dtube So Why Do I Have To Add A Youtube Video To My Open Mic Entry

• Steemit Open Mic Is About Building A Community Of Musicians On Steemit Not About Winning

• Steemit Open Mic Is Growing And Expanding And A Call For A Dedicated Open Mic Website

• Behind The Scenes Look At The Steemit Open Mic Selection Process How We Pick The Top 3 Entries

Suggestion: openmic must be the first tag to enter open mic, but adding other music-related tags (such as music, music-trail) may help your post get more attention and perhaps even get curated by those music curators.

If your song is an original song, add orginalmusic as your 2nd tag. This will help curators know it is an original song which currently pays a Steem bonus to you.

Thank you all for the participation!

If you have any question please contact @luzcypher in the Open Mic Discord Channel

We would like to thank you all for your spirited participation in making this a big part of the Steemit music community!

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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.

Connect With The Music Community On Steemit

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@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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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