Steemit Open Mic Week 59 - Record Your Performance And Win Steem - Sponsored By @pfunk And @luzcypher

in openmic •  7 years ago  (edited)

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.

Join Steemit Open Mic Night Week 59 and win Steem. Just Record, Post, Win! Come play or sing a song for Steemit.

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Translation courtesy of @lizanomadsoul

Parlez-vous Français?

Traduction de @roxane

Steemit Open Mic Rules

  • The cutoff date for entries is Friday the 17th of November
  • Only 1 entry per person per week
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 59 must the beginning of the post title.
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 59 must be said at the beginning of your video
  • Live performances only specifically made for this contest
  • openmic must be the first tag
  • Add a link to your post in the comments of this contest post.
  • You must upvote this post.

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

Prizes

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

Victor Hugo

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It is very important to say the words "Steemit Open Mic Week 59" at the beginning of your recorded video and as the first words of your post title. Posts without that at the beginning of the title are hard to find in the feed and we may miss your post. Posts without those words spoken in the beginning of your live, recorded video do not qualify for prizes.

If your song is an original song by you it is very important you put the word "original" in the title and "originalmusic" as the second tag of your post

Here is an example of a correctly titled post.

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

Steemit Open Mic News

It Is A Proud Honor To Have Been Recently Entrusted As An Official Open Mic Judge --- by @passion-ground

Steemit Musicians The New Msp Waves Radio Show Featuring Open Mic Entries And A 20 Sbd Prize --- by @krystle

Behind The Scenes Look At The Steemit Open Mic Selection Process How We Pick The Top 3 Entries --- by @luzcypher

Steemit Open Mic Week 58 See Who Played Open Mic And Vote For Your Favorite Steemian Musicians --- by @luzcypher

You can also post your Steemit Open Mic link to Steemit Open Mic Post Promotion channel by join us at the Steemit Local Musicians Society on Discord and get more upvotes for your entry. Here is the invite code

Steemit Open Mic Week 59

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 58 will be announced **, Monday,Noveber 12th, 2017 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 59" AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR VIDEO We're looking for real live performances for this contest. Some people have posted old videos from YouTube and it's difficult to verify that it's really them performing. In the future 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 59 at the start of it.

  • You can sing acapella if you don't play an instrument or sing to a recording if you want and still enter Open Mic.

How To Enter Steemit Open Mic Night

  • 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 59" 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 59 before any other text in the title.

For example: STEEMIT Open Mic Week 59 - Hold That Tiger by @cheetabot

  • You can title your post anything you want just be sure the first words say STEEMIT OPEN MIC WEEK 59.

  • 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

  • Submit your performance in the comment / reply section by 12.00 PM UTC Time (Friday 17th NOVEMBER 2017). Find your UTC time here.
  • You may only submit 1 (one) entry per week.

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

  • Steemit Open Mic judges will deliberate 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place based on the selected performances.
  • Each week the prizes will be paid as follows:
  • 1st place: 50% of Steem Prize.
  • 2nd place: 25% of Steem Prize.
  • 3rd place: 25% of Steem Prize.

ANY ADDITION PRIZES DONATED TO STEEMIT OPEN MIC WILL BE SPLIT WITH THE SAME PERCENTAGES LISTED ABOVE

300 Steem Prize

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.

[![steemit_open_mic_week_59.png](https://s7.postimg.org/lf2nrlzfv/steemit_open_mic_week_59.png)](https://steemit.com/@luzcypher)

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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:

  1. Steemit Group 1
  2. Steemit Group 2

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.

  • The cutoff date for entries is Friday the 17th of November
  • Only 1 entry per person per week
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 59 must the beginning of the post title.
  • Steemit Open Mic Week 59 must be said at the beginning of your video
  • Live performances only specifically made for this contest
  • openmic must be the first tag
  • Add a link to your post in the comments of this contest post.
  • You must upvote this post.
  • If your song is an original song then add the word "Original" somewhere in your title

For a fuller understanding of the rules read, What Are The Rules To Enter Steemit Open Mic And Why Do We Have Rules Anyways

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.

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!

Thank you for the positive support from the Steemit community and special thanks to @kevinwong for his guidance, encouragement and support and @verbal-d for writing a song that inspired the idea and @pfunk for helping and supporting Open Mic.

Please contact @luzcypher in SteemitChat for any further questions you may have and you can post your entry there too. https://steemit.chat/channel/openmic

Hablas Español? Haga Clic Aquí

Translation courtesy of @lizanomadsoul

Parlez-vous Français?

Traduction de @roxane

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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Another gorgeous song. Thank you for joining our #openmic, and raising the bar higher, so we can all aspire to next-level greatness. Once again, you inspire me, sister.

I just wow mam.

Oh my this was so magical! This voice of yours is most beautiful!! Resteemed!

This is beautiful @matisotoaguilar! Well done

Great work.

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OMG! That was super hot! Great song jaybird!

Great performance. You poured your heart into this one.

thx brotha indeed i did.

WOW this is f***n awesome sir.

Hello @luzcypher ! , this is my song for this week , thanks once again for setting this space up for us . Hope you like it !

Brilliant. I admire your sophisticated guitar playing, your pleasant singing, and your beautiful songwriting. Altogether it's a bright revelation of what a star you are.

Thank you very much for your kind words my friend :) . I'm so glad you like my music . Cheers !

great song sir.

thank you very much my friend :)

Beautiful my friend, such sweet tones in your voice.

thank you very much ! im glad you liked this song :) , cheers!

Bravo.

Thank you @nateb :) , cheers!

Quick, somebody get these folks a record deal! This sound is sweet enough for the masses.

This week I wrote a fun little song called Mediocre.


Here is the link to my post, where I link to my other recent originals. I'd love it if you'd check 'em out! Thanks!


I FEEEEEEL this.

Lovely song @chrisroberts. I love the twang of your voice, sounds awesome

LOL Thanks! I don't actually even talk like that. The words just always come out that way when I write country songs. I guess I'm a redneck at heart.

Haha well it's great! You've got talent there so maybe you should keep going with it! I'd like to hear your other stuff too in that case

Classic! Funny–sure, and childlike–yeah, and at the same time there's a real sophistication in it. First, the message feels like a positive affirmation: "I am enough," or "I accept myself exactly as I am." It honestly feels like a very meaningful song to me. Reminds me of the sentimental songs of Randy Newman, and the kiddie verses of They Might Be Giants, with the folkiness of Matt The Electrician... Ooh, and I admire your videography, with that rich vignette and scratchy old-timey film effect, along with the tumbleweed lamp and ukulele I see in the background. This is a standout #openmic entry, in my opinion.

That's really cool, I appreciate your feedback! You seem to get where I'm coming from. It's true. Comparisons are hard. The idea of mediocrity comes from comparing to others. I may have a really healthy ego and a good level of confidence, but to be completely honest, this song came out of one of my less confident days. I'm extremely new to this songwriting game, but so far I like to wrap some heavy issues in cute and clever lyrics. I'm looking forward to expanding my horizons in @meno's upcoming songwriting competition.

Thank you so much for your thoughtful comment, and I'm so glad you enjoyed my song!

I love your song sir..

Lovely. And squeezing the word "dissertation" into any uke song deserves an upvote!

Thanks! I'm glad you noticed. I like when I can fit in the occasional 5 dollar word.

This was thoroughly entertaining. Thanks.

I've entered kind of late the last few weeks.
So I thought I'd make up for my tardiness this week by removing the veneer of coolness and appearing over eager. :)

For this weeks openmic I go back to the days of my youth.
This is my cover of a song by The Cascades.
It's called "Rhythm of The Rain."

Thanks for listening.

Tom

https://steemit.com/openmic/@tombalistreri/openmic-59-rhythm-of-the-rain-cover-by-tom-balistreri

Thanks for entering again. Love it.

Thank you for this great opportunity!

I like the rythm of this song, and you sang it well, good luck!

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Thank you!

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wow sir you nailed it!! I love the rhythm too as what sir @long888 said., good luck to all of us sir..

Thank you!

You've got a great classic voice @tombalistreli! Good job!

Touch of old skool class!!

Thank you!

Ahhh. I love that melody - right up there with Raindrops keep fallin on my head. Good work!

Wow, you sound really good singing this.

Thank you! I really appreciate your comment.

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what a lovely cover again sir..

Thank you!

This is lovely @donatello! I wish I could play guitar like this!

It's very kind of you. I saw you playing the guitar and you can play it nicely. Your voice is lovely.

Ah thank you @donatello!

Nice. well done!

Hey @g10a, it’s so good to have you here on Open-Mic, and your original performance this week is real good! However, I was wondering if you would kindly refrain from using that advertising tag with your comments. It’s rather distracting for me, and it really takes away from the natural flow of the comment threads here on Open-Mic. Thank you, brother... Much love, and good luck this week!

thank you so much sir I hope I can still use the guitar for the following weeks., I'm really sorry for that one sir.

No worries, brother... Thank you, again! I sure hope you can use that guitar again too... Hey, keep your original song-writing powder dry because there may be a special song-writers contest coming up at some point in the near future whereby the winner will receive a brand new acoustic guitar - with a hard case and all! Keep an eye out for it - because if you can write thematic songs really well - there's certainly no one that I can think of that would like to win that guitar more than you... All the best, my friend!

WOW that would be great sir, inform me in advance sir please hehehe so I can prepare my lyrics. thematic songs, I might find it difficult to compose the group of words to build a song, I hope I can participate and can write the song according with the theme. God Bless you and your family sir.

Sounds really good.

thank you sir luzy..

@g10a!! This is stunning! I'm sorry I cannot understand your language but your singing and guitar playing are amazing

thanks a lot mam, I'm sorry for that mam, in my original post I included the translation. Hope next week I can render an english one.

I had a look!! Very good 😊

Great stuff!

Here's my flagship drum entry! Pre-cleared that moving my Steemit Open Mic #59 sign is enough confirmation that it's me since I can't record my vocals during the recording process.

Please note that you'll need headphones or speakers with good BASS to hear everything properly.

This is a cover of Red Hot Chili Peppers' Dani California on my electronic kit. It's not easy to play with my neighbors, so this is the best I can do for now.

I start to improvise around 2:45 since playing covers note for note isn't as fun for me. Hope you enjoy!

https://steemit.com/openmic/@steemmatt/steemit-open-mic-week-59-drum-cover-of-red-hot-chili-peppers-dani-california

That sounds really tight.

That was super fun to watch! That's how I learned to play the harmonica, playing with whatever was on the radio.

Great song choice, too!

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Wow love your cover mam, this is amazing..

Beautiful.

Here’s my entry for the week! My voice is pretty raspy from being sick, and so I decided to pull out my flute! It has been quite a few years since I have played, but I hope you guys enjoy my cover of the Super Mario Brothers theme song.

Great job. Interesting that other people were going to do this song too. I was gonna cover it on Uke too! Cool stuff and get well soon!

There must’ve been a lot of super Mario Brothers energy zipping around this week! That is too funny! You should definitely still cover it sometime. I bet it would sound pretty awesome on the Uke. 😊

Thanks for your well wishes to. I think I finally turned a corner and was able to avoid getting too sick.

Maybe there's a plumber vibe in the air?! Time to jump on turtles, shimmy up drains and collect coins ;) Yeah I'll give it a go sometime on uke. Glad you're not too sick!

Nice job. Very creative choice. I almost played the same song on my drums this week (with some other levels mixed in), but decided to play it safe. Good thing I held off since you'd have stolen the show.

How random that we were both thinking of that song this week! You should totally do it sometime on the drums, that would be awesome. Also, congrats on your first entry! I’m so stoked that you joined open mic!

Yea quite random. Get @raised2be with his guitar and we can all collaborate on a cross country cover of it. I can change all of the triggers on my electric kit's module to any sound in the world, so I could even load up the noises from the game if I wanted to get intense about it.

Oh man, doing some kind of cross collaboration for open mic would be sick! How would that work? Would we just send you the separate audio or video files of us each playing the track?

All I need is an MP3 file with you both on it. I play along with it in my set's module and it records it all together live via USB input & video on my Macbook. My output would be exactly like in my post, so you can hear the other elements quite nicely. I don't know how to edit/split videos, but mine could be the master for audio, and you can split screen you two easily I bet. The most critical thing for me would be that the audio is perfectly in time using a metronome that's not heard on the MP3. Yuck, I know...

Can chat on Steemit Chat any time under mattcoin8 to pick a song and then be the first official Steemit cross country band!

This is kind of embarrassing, but I actually haven’t joined steemit chat yet! I know, lame. Not sure if @raised2b has yet either. Maybe this will be a good push for us to get over there! That way we can chat about more details. I’m sure we can figure out a way to record together and maybe keep a metronome in our headphones or something. If we want cool vocals, I might be able to convince a friend to do some harmonies with us.

wow super mario returns..

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The mystery of this week. The question we were all asking. Can @chaifm rap?
https://steemit.com/openmic/@chaifm/steemit-open-mic-week-59-the-lost-song-cover-or-can-chaifm-rap

Love the touch of spice you added. Bad azz! Really cool!

very cool mam.

thanks guys :)

After some issues with youtube not wanting to complete a video upload for me despite numerous blood sacrifices, I am hoping that this I got this posted still in time for this week's open mic? I hope? A duet with the rare and radiant maiden the angel's call Lenore (my sister):
https://steemit.com/openmic/@carlgnash/open-mic-week-59-fairwind-original-song

Your voices harmonize beautifully and that slide sounds great.

Nice one mate! Those are some interesting chords and not easy to play.. so well done.

Thanks @allanshrestha ! I'll be checking your aportations.

This was a good version of a classic song. Thanks

this is so cool sir..

This is my entry for this week's open mic
Los invito a ver mi participación esta semana https://steemit.com/openmic/@hugo.exe/steemit-open-mic-week-59-hyugo-luna-de-margarita-cover-simon-diaz

what the rock!

I never heard of this song till now and I must say...I love your performance! Full of passion!<3

wow!

Hello guys!
Here we are with Rhavi for the open mic week 59!
Thank you a lot <3
https://steemit.com/openmic/@lisamalletart/open-mic-week-59-or-lisa-and-rhavi-or-sunny-days

lovely song..

Esteemed Steemians :) after the overwhelmingly positive response to my first music video, I present to you this week my second contribution to the STEEMIT Open mic contest : a guitar interpretation of the classic 90s hip-hop hit "no diggity" by blackstreet. Hope you enjoy and stay tuned for future tunes :)

https://steemit.com/openmic/@raci/steemit-open-mic-week-59-no-diggity-blackstret

Those places are familiar its because I enjoyed your first music video you really deserved to win. Good luck for this week's contest.

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#steemitachievers


Thank you so much, I am really happy to hear that you enjoyed my videos. Winning the contest would of course be nice, but is not my primary goal. It's just such a great feeling to play music for people who enjoy it. I think everybody wins just by participating.

The focus has always been to build the music community on Steemit. The prizes are just some bait to get people interested. Thanks for participating.

It's really awesome that you are doing this and if you look at the groove around here, I would say it is a pretty successful project 😉 thanks so much and keep up the good work 👍

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wow good to see you again sir, this is awesome cover.

It,s almost closing time and I am in for this week with an ORIGINAL SONG.
Steemit Openmic week#59 - Forgetting Time (Original)
@luzcypher, @pfunk, @openmic

https://steemit.com/openmic/@afrao0/steemit-open-mic-week-59-forgetting-time-original-song

I have been so sick with a sinus infection, and my voice is finally back!! Here is my entry for the week:) THANK YOU SO MUCH. I freaking love this contest. https://steemit.com/openmic/@addiesworld/steemit-openmic-week-59-somwhere-only-we-know-lily-allen

amazing.

Hi guys! this is my entry for this weeks contest!! i hope you enjoy it! https://steemit.com/openmic/@soykatonline/steemit-open-mic-week-59-que-hago-yo-ha-ash-cover

WOW!

haha thanks! it means a lot to me , coming from someone so talented as yourself!

Lovely!

thanks Nate! <3

wow that's seems great .. have to get own music and talent good platform

nice blog and informative

Hey guys, missed last weeks open mic but back again with an original for the first time called "Wind in your hair". Hope you like it! :)

https://steemit.com/openmic/@allanshrestha/steemit-open-mic-week-59-wind-in-your-hair-original-composition

I agree with them, this was very beautiful and soothing like. Well done!

Thanks @the21plus! :)

Beautiful sounds on the guitar.

wow the sounds like a healing melody..

Thanks @g10a for the lovely comment!

Thanks @luzcypher! :)

Well I tried last week but I think I fell by the road with the rules. Here I go this week, hopefully I got the rules right!
https://steemit.com/openmic/@thesimpson/openmic-week-59-original-song-this-was-for-real

nice composition sir.

Hey there, it was nice to meet you at Steemfest. I just returned from Morocco. I gues I will not participate in the Open Mic (yet... maybe some more practice is needed :D) but I resteemed your post so my followers get inspired to take part :) Greetings from cold Berlin :D

Thank you for the resteem

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

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  ·  7 years ago (edited)

amazing,.!

Thanks

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Good luck!

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Thanks @long888

Thanks for entering.

Thanks you @luzcypher

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wow I like your entry.

Thanks

you rock it sir.

Mwahaha.

what a cool metal piece..

Dude, you look so gangster in this video. Dope flow.

😅 I appreciate it! Thanks a lot

sir give me your shades hehehe

Here is my original steemit openmic entry

This is the LINK

galing sir.

Here is my open mic week 59 entry. As explained in the post, we had a fire in our apartment building and we have been out for four weeks... I didn't even have my guitar with me until about three days ago, so here ya go Steemit!! Love you all!

https://steemit.com/openmic/@sallyswitchblade/steemit-open-mic-week-59-can-t-be-loved-elle-king-cover

voice power!

Thanks again to everyone who participates in this each and every week! You guys are amazing and its been a lot of fun getting to know some of you. I can't wait to meet more of you! Feel free to follow me and I'll follow you back! Lets build this community stronger than it already is! Here is my entry for this week! Thanks you! https://steemit.com/openmic/@stanhopeofficial/steemit-open-mic-week-59-moving-on-original-song

wow!

so cool sir.

  ·  7 years ago Reveal Comment

I'm took a little internet break the last weeks but I'm happy to be back. :)

https://steemit.com/openmic/@melavie/steemit-open-mic-week-59-at-all-original-song

I just wow.

beautiful performance sir.

WOW!

Tqvm

very cool.

Hello!
Here's my entry for this week's open mic.
Thank you for listening.
Yours,
Nir

perfect!

Really nice song and effects. Like the intro. It would make a good clip for an Open Mic promo video.

Ohhh mahn! Anything from linkin park is a GO for me! Good stuff

nice one sir..

keep on rocking guys, having a lot of fun with all of you :)
Jan

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

This song makes me want to drink for some strange reason. Thanks for playing for us.

Very strange;) We'll have some mead here if you come around;)

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

magnificent cover!

Thank you, no cover, original composition:)

oh sorry I mean entry sir.. my brain memory might be eaten by your awesome composition sir..

lovely music sir.

Nice. Thanks for sharing your music.

  ·  7 years ago (edited)

what a wonderful voice as always mam.

Hi people! Here's my short but sweet entry for this weeks openmic. Hope you like: https://steemit.com/openmic/@nateb/steemit-open-mic-week-59-all-of-me-sinatra-cover#comments

good one sir.

Thank you.

most welcome buddy

Bob Dylan oh yeah...

I wrote a song about Steemfest. I hope you enjoy it.

very nice contest
greetings
@walidsalah