Hello everybody on HIVE, and especially the Music Community. My name is Jasper and I'm writing to you from Cape Town in South Africa!
Welcome to "Three Tune Tuesday", an initiative started by 
For those of you who are not familiar, the Hive Open Mic is a weekly challenge on the Hive Open Mic community for anybody who loves to sing. You don’t even need to play an instrument, a backing track or a cappella is also fine as far as I can tell!
Different artists are given the chance to choose a “Theme of the Week” that the posts should be based on. Often it can be difficult for people to think about easy songs that might fit that theme… so let me see if I can be of any assistance to the people who still might not know what to try by the time Tuesday comes around!
All right! Let’s get cracking!
Here is the post inviting everyone to participate in this week’s Hive Open Mic (Week 186):
@hiveopenmic/hive-open-mic-187-worldwide-live-music-event
As you can see, it was the turn of 
Hmmm, that sounds like quite an easy theme that people will probably won’t need my help for at all! The only question in my mind is should I be doing songs about “Peace” as a concept, or merely soft finger-picking songs that have a “peaceful sound and atmosphere” about them?
Luckily I get to pick three songs so let’s suggest a bit of both!
For the song about “Peace” as a concept, let’s borrow “Give Peace a Chance” by Plastic Ono Band (John Lennon of The Beatles). The chorus is catchy and super-memorable, but who wants to tackle those verses?
How about a “peaceful sound and atmosphere” instead? One of my favourite soft, peaceful songs of all time is “For Emily, Whenever I May Find Her” by Simon & Garfunkel. Especially the live version that I will post in the video below. Had there ever been such magic created by a live performance – the combination of Art Garfunkel’s angelic voice and Paul Simon’s sublime picking is in perfect sync while somehow sounding spontaneous and un-rehearsed. At the end of the performance they even seem to have a “What just happened?” kind of glance to each other…
Now, normally for these entries I want all of the songs I suggest to at least be reasonably famous so that the reader has a good chance of knowing the song already, and potentially feeling comfortable with having a go at covering it for the Hive Open Mic challenge themselves. However, I will stray from that for this last song this week. Hopefully, everyone who wants to take part in Hive Open Mic this week will be able to think of a peaceful song or two and doesn’t actually need my help this week. I must be honest, when I heard the theme of “A Peaceful Song” this week, I immediately thought of my friend Wayne Pauli who I met at the local Barleycorn Music Club here in Cape Town. I think he is one of our most under-rated songwriters and deserves to be as famous as some of our most famous local musicians, but for whatever reason… he isn’t. Please listen to his “Summer Song”, with its paltry under-600 views on YouTube, and tell me this isn’t a world-class folk song, and a perfect match for “A Peaceful Song”?
So that's week 128 done and dusted! I hope that gave some people some ideas on how to tackle the Hive Open Mic Challenge this week? Perhaps I’ve even inspired one or two new people to give it a try? Please let me know!