Thanks to everyone who entered and supported Open Mic Week 89. Community support for Open Mic has been tremendous and is one of many projects bringing the music community together on Steemit.

Forgive me for getting this out a day late this week. I had to hook up with my friend @anomadsoul who was here for one day only before blasting off to Russia for the World Cup. I thought I'd get back home in time to post this yesterday but then we had some beers and our arms got twisted into drinking Tequila and, well, you know. We ended up getting completely twisted.

We had 283 entries this week of which 275 are valid and included in these weekly posts! Awesome guys!

Support Musicians On Steemit

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

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

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

MSP-Waves Radio in association with the Minnow Support Project and the Peace, Abundance, Liberty Network is a weekly radio program hosted by @Krystle, @swelker101, and @Isaria that features the weekly Top 5 judges picks from Steemit Open Mic. Not only do they also 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.

@aggroed is a top 20 witness and is involved in the minnowsupportproject.org and the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty network on Discord. He is launching a new online card game called SteemMonsters.com. Steem Monsters is supporting Open Mic with a 50 Steem donation per week. You can vote for him as witness here

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What Is SteemMonsters.com?

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And thanks to @meno's initiative the community has come together to support Open Mic. Many of you have created posts in support of the Open Mic community and have donated a portion of the rewards from those posts to @openmic so we can keep doing what we do, build a great community of musicians on Steemit. You guys are the best and we feel appreciative and inspired!

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

Steemit Open Mic Rules

• The cutoff date for entries was Friday the 15th of June, 2018 at 12 UTC TIME Find your UTC time here.
• Only 1 entry per person per week
• "Steemit Open Mic Week 89" must the beginning of the post title.
• "Steemit Open Mic Week 89" must be said at the beginning of your video and your username.
• Live performances only specifically made for this contest.
• openmic must be the first tag
• Add a link to your post in the comments of the contest post.
• You must upvote this post.
• If your song is an original song then add the word "Original" somewhere in your title
• You can use DTube but include an embedded YouTube or Vimeo video too.

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

Entries must follow these rules to earn prizes.

Big shout out to @lukestokes who recently delegated 5,000 SP to the @openmic account! Thanks for your support.

I just want to remind everyone that votes are only part of the selection process. Entertainment value and performance is factored in too.

To learn more about the rules to entering the contest please read What Are The Rules To Enter Steemit Open Mic And Why Do We Have Rules Anyways

The coolest thing about Open Mic is it brings the Steemit community together and that is the whole point of this project.

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Meet up with the Open Mic community at Open Mic on Discord and chat with all of the people who enter Open Mic there. It's a great way to interact with the Open Mic community.

Join the Facebook page for Steemit Musicians you can read about here or go straight to the page here. A lot of players from Steemit Open Mic are there.

Steemit Open Mic Judges

@soundlegion, @krystle, @verbal-d, @passion-ground, and @meno

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

Official Open Mic Or Passion Ground S Top 5 Entries For Week 89 --- by @passion-ground

Openmic Week 89 Soundlegion Judges Picks Top Picks List Honorable Mentions Top 5 --- by @soundlegion

Open Mic Week 89 Top 5 Selection And Honorable Mentions --- by @meno

Steemit S Official Open Mic Judge Verbal D S Top 5 Entries For Week 89 Original Blog --- by @verbal-d

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

Special thanks to @soundlegion, @krystle, @verbal-d, @passion-ground, and @meno for help judging the contest this week. Great job guys.

Steemit Open Mic is not about winning or losing, it's about building a connections on Steemit through music. Watching the collaborations happen online between musicians who played and met on Steemit Open Mic is very rewarding and many of the people who play and post earn some nice rewards for playing a song.

For many, it's easier to get some Steem in your tip jar by playing for Steemit Open Mic than it is to play music on the street.

Steemit Open Mic Trending Posts

Click here to see the current trending posts on Steemit Open Mic

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Top 20 Trending Open Mic Posts

The openmic tag has earned a total of: 218,225 SBD worth $362,253 USD At Today's Prices of $1.66 SBD (Average of $4,070.25 per week in 89 weeks +plus has paid out over 26,000 Steem in prizes!

The most recent top earning posts were:

@fax4u	Steemit openmic week 89 - I can't go on without you - cover fax4u $ 59.1350
@kkarenmp	Steemit Open Mic Week #89 - El Sol no Regresa (Cover Violin) por @kkarenmp $ 52.5460
@dreamrafa	Steemit Open Mic Week 89 - Fading (Original) $ 51.0510
@darrenclaxton	Steemit Open Mic Week 89 - Resolve - Original music by @darrenclaxton $ 48.0930
@vincy	STEEMIT OPEN MIC WEEK #89 - Lucky - Jason Mraz - Ukulele Cover $ 47.1910
@funkmedia	Steemit OpenMic Week 89 - Funk Media Ft. Jose Cabrera - Original Jamsession Nº1 "Jamtosa" $ 46.5060
@k0wsk1	Steemit Open Mic Week 89: "Put Me Thru" (Anderson .Paak Cover) by @k0wsk1 $ 46.4650
@wilins	Steemit Open mic week #89 - Originalsong: "Porque podemos". (Dtube / youtube). $ 46.1040
@camuel	Steemit Open Mic Week 89 - Original Song - Shabba $ 46.0710
@tribedownsouth	Steemit OpenMic [Week 89]-*Original* 'The Girl' $ 44.2550
@carlosvidal	Steemit Open Mic Week 89 | Chandelier – Sia (Sentimiento Acústico FT Andrea Bortone) $ 44.2510
@scoutting	Steemit Open Mic Week 89 "Ubat Hate" Original Song Cover by @scoutting $ 43.9510
@jonataneliu	Steemit OPENMic Week #89- My jazz Original - Originalsong $ 43.5680
@montanacellist	Steemit Open Mic Week 89 - Improvised Suite for Singing Bowls, Cello and Bass $ 42.8800
@samidbarid	Steemit Openmic week 89 - Sami D. Barid - Original piano song $ 38.3180
@honeymoon-1611	Steemit Open Mic Week 89 - can´t help falling in love (cover) by @honeymoon-1611 $ 36.9810
@coruscate	Steemit Open Mic Week #89 - No Scrubs by TLC + Why I've been gone for a while $ 29.6980
@michaeldietrich	Steemit Open Mic Week 89: Sleep (Savatage cover) $ 20.2720
@bennettitalia	Steemit Open Mic Week 89 - A Fairytale - an original song by Bennett Italia $ 19.5630
@revdocwelch	Openmic week 89 original song, "Faith Is" $ 16.3120

Winners from Steemit Open Mic Week 89

It is not getting any easier to pick with all this talent and it is so hard picking winners every week even with 5 judges.

Honorable mentions this week in no particular order are: @damcrow, @samidbarid, @arrozymangophoto, @dustinseth, @aidarojaswriter, @bennettitalia, @lillym, @k0wsk1, @carlosvidal, @shookriya, @franyelisanchez, @yessellyloscomps, @desiesk, @oswaldotorres, @moccamonica, @samjgonz, @tribedownsouth, @johannesburghart, @moderndayjester, @dreamrafa, @coruscate, and many more on our radar. We Love You All!

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and the winners are...

1st Place

You won 80 Steem and a 5-Pack of Steem Monster cards.

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Steemit Open Mic Week 89 - Resolve - Original music by @darrenclaxton --- by @darrenclaxton

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Don’t blame me, guys… Darren just so happens to be on fire of late. “Resolve” is a stunningly beautiful and timely Fathers Day tribute to Darren’s incredible Dad. He had me at my knees within 15 seconds with his initial guitar passages, which magically connected directly to the part my central nervous system that measures pure emotion. Thereafter, the slightly eastern melodic flavor combined with the story being told alongside the skillful and impassioned execution of it all left me helpless to do anything else but to top Darren out at the height of my list. - @passion-ground

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I guess Darren has been on a roll lately, his entries, his original songs have just been attacking at the heart as if they are crafted with one intent in mind.

I just love the use of the pedal tones, the harmonics and the melancholic melody. I've been remembering my grandfather a lot this weekend, and this little song seemed so appropriate. - @meno

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2nd Place

You won 40 Steem and a 5-Pack of Steem Monster cards.

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Steemit Open Mic Week 89 Hallelujah Cover By Coco Ramos --- by @lecocoramos

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Ahem, ahem, look who’s here again? That’s right folks, it’s Coco, and she’s driving me absolutely mad in more ways than one! Just when I thought that I’ve heard all the coverage of this classic that I could possibly hope for, along comes Coco to shock me into complete and utter submission. My life just wouldn’t be the same if I were to have been denied hearing her particular rendition of this most amazing classic. Yes, no doubt her new pink hair is definitely a short-term bonus; however, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out the sheer brilliance of her guitar work within the first 30-seconds of listening. Thereafter, her dynamic vocal builds, inflections, and returns are simply jaw-dropping. Couple all of that with her opening smiles and her closing conveyance of sincere humility, and you’ve got yourself a “golden production” and an outstanding entry quite worthy of placement in my top-5 list any day of the week. - @passion-ground

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I don't really need to say much. This is quite simple, if you can listen to Coco sing this song and your skin does not react, if you don't feel like crying. I suggest you call a Doctor immediately.

Coco has such a powerful delivery, its hard to describe with words. I feel like she's attacking me, like her mission is to make me break down in a pool of emotions. There more I listen, the more she succeeds. - @meno

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3rd Place

You won 26 Steem and a 5-Pack of Steem Monster cards.

Steemit Open mic week # 89 - Originalsong: "Because we can". (Dtube / YouTube). --- by @wilins

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For those who may not know or recall, this “Wilins Classic,” “Because We Can,” (Porque podemos) is a product of week #4 from season-1 of the Songwriters Challenge, which was created and sponsored by @meno. That’s right folks; this song was conceived of and written on-demand within the course of just 6-days! Wilins definitely resides within my conception of the COTC - there is no doubt about it. Prompted by the weekly theme presented by the judges, Wilin’s was forced out of his comfort zone, stood tall, and delivered these goods like nobody’s business! Passion spills out of Wilins like the rain falls from a dark stormy sky. When I listened to this new rendition for week 89, it immediately brought back all of the joy (and then some) that I experienced the very first time I heard it. For this and a whole lot more, I give Wilin’s my number-2 spot this week. As an aside, there’s been a bit of buzz about it of late, but let’s see what happens, - perhaps in the near future, season-2 of the Songwriters Challenge will be upon us in due course. - @passion-ground

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This is one of my favorite originals ever composed by Wilins. A song about existence, a journey into the thousand questions. Its hard to describe why I'm always drawn in by introspective music, I guess its mainly because I can relate so powerfully it. I'm also one to ask myself thousands of times, why life is the way it is. - @meno

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4th Place

You won 26 Steem and a 5-Pack of Steem Monster cards.

Steemit Open Mic Week 89 / My Childhood (Original Song) Mi Niñez --- by @armandolnrs

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*Armando’s brother, Cesar Linares composed this masterpiece. It appears that in addition to himself, Armando’s siblings comprise the balance of this musical tour de force. I can only assume that this is a song about their lives growing up together as brothers and sisters. I am literally dying to know the lyrics – this is such a touching and beautiful production! What an incredibly talented family, and what a beautiful recollection of the love and joy they shared throughout their lifetimes. This is one special production and most definitely a piece of treasured legacy music for the Linares family and for us as well. I extend my thanks to each of them for sharing this treasure with us all. Bravo! * - @passion-ground

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I was relly glad to see the judges picked this entry this week. Loved the voices singing together and the composition. Thanks for bringing more musicians to the community and hope to hear more soon. - @luzcypher

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5th Place

You won 26 Steem and a 5-Pack of Steem Monster cards.

Steemit Openmic Week 89 I Can T Go On Without You Cover Fax4U --- by @fax4u

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It has been a while since you played Open Mic. We missed you. Always love hearing you play that beautiful piano and your voice is so soulful. Always a pleasure and can't wait to hear what you bring us next. - @luzcypher

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Here's a screenshot of the prizes transferred to the winners this week.

Congratulation Everyone And Thanks For Playing Steemit Open Mic

Steemit Open Mic Is About Building A Community Of Musicians On Steemit, Not About Winning --- by @luzcypher

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Congratulations guys! Thanks again to everyone that entered. Thank you @pfunk for sponsoring Open Mic with 100 Steem donation for each week! Very generous of you.

Vote And Enter Open Mic Week 90 by Following This Link

Steemit Open Mic Week 90 Record Your Performance And Win Steem Sponsored By Pfunk And Luzcypher --- by @luzcypher

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