Unofficial BONUS PRIZES for Steemit Open Mic Week 99

I give out a small unofficial award for some of my favorite original songs in English/Instrumentals 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.

Back from vacation and ready to get started on this again. No feeder post this week, and with the price where it is that probably means no second round of prizes. But all author rewards for this post will still go toward that just in case.

Two old favorite winners this week, and I'm ready for fall to come and the activity to go up again. This subcontest is one of the few places on Steem that's dominated by the northern temperate zone, and in August you can sure tell - the Spanish musicians are still going strong but lots of English ones are absent.

Winners in no particular order:

"Running Shadows" by @nadabrahmasounds

I don't really need to talk about Hernán at this point, do I? Just enjoy the thing.

"Shotgun Ravens, Pale Night" by @paintingangels

Probably I don't need to talk about Serena either, but I'm going to. I really love the surreal imagery here, especially the strawberry pie which shows up like a setting detail and turns out to be a character.

Bonus Bit

This wasn't an Open Mic entry and so isn't eligible for prizes but you're here because you like music so you should go listen to @yidneth sing Līgo and watch the amazing video she made for it. It's pretty great.

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.