Voices of Open Mic // How Open Mic Changed My Life
One of the first things I did when I joined Steemit was look through all the tags.
I wasn't a blogger so I felt a little lost on what to post.
I found the Open Mic tag and decided to post a video I had made of me playing Linus and Lucy (The Charlie Brown Song).
The next day I logged onto Steemit and was in shock when I saw that my Charlie Brown post had made about $280!
I didn't know anything about Curie at the time and I really didn't know much about Steemit either, so I was absolutely amazed and confused about how that had happened....and of course grateful and happy!
So, anyway, one of the comments on my post was from telling me to check out the Open Mic post to find out about the contest and the rules for entering. So, that's how I found out about the Open Mic contest!
I ended up entering the contest every week after that. It was such a great experience, especially as a new user, because I got to meet so many musicians and it helped me to feel like I was becoming part of the community.
The open mic contest also helped me grow as a musician and as person.
I hadn't performed in years due to almost debilitating anxiety and I had gotten to the point where I just accepted that I would never perform again.
Having a goal each week to make the Open Mic video helped my musicianship and more importantly, helped me to step outside of my comfort zone and grow as a person.
This personal growth helped me gain confidence to host radio shows on MSP-Waves.
Before joining Steemit I would never have done anything like that, but the Open Mic contests helped me to become comfortable in my own skin and showed me that I don't have to be afraid to share part of myself with other people.
gave us a list of questions to answer when making our Voices of Open Mic videos and I just realized I forgot to mention my Open Mic highlight which was when I actually won! I remember coming home from work and Shane screaming from the balcony that I won. lol
I honestly never thought I would win so it really meant so much to me!
The week after I won, I started the Steemit Creative Curation Show with . Part of the show includes playing music from Steemit musicians, but I wanted to create another show specifically dedicated to Steemit Musicians.
I was talking with in discord one day and we decided to start a radio show for the Open Mic musicians.
joined us shortly thereafter.
I do 4 radio shows and Steemit Musicians is my favorite. Every week I am absolutely blown away by the level of talent that we have here on Steemit.
HUGE thanks to and
for organizing such an amazing and meaningful contest for over 70 weeks now!
Also, BIG thanks to the judges, ,
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, who give so much of their time...they have an incredibly hard job as so many of these entries are amazing!