Steemit Open Mic is an online, live music venue to give musicians a chance to share their music with the Steemit community and get their music heard. It is growing larger every week thanks to all of you.

This week's entries have been split into two posts because we have so many entries that we broke the post size limit on Steemit!

This post is part one and this is

Steemit Open Mic Week 84 - See Who Played - Part 2

To see all the entries you'll have to go there too. The post was so big the website would not post it!

We had 286 entries this week of which 277 are valid and included in these weekly posts! Awesome guys!

You can read more about why all of the entries are not in the See Who Played weekly posts by reading Steemit Open Mic Is About Building A Community Of Musicians On Steemit Not About Winning --- by Hive account@luzcypher

There have been a flush of new accounts downloading people's valid Open Mic entries, uploading them to a new YouTube account, and posting it as their own performance on their multiple Steemit accounts. Those will not be included and I have muted those accounts.

To the scammers doing this, muting your account means I will no longer see your posts so you are wasting yours and every one elses time continuing down that path. You will be flagged, reported to Hive account@steemcleaners, and banned from entering Open Mic.

Please bear with us as we deal with this issue and keep Open Mic about building a musical community on Steemit worthy of the talent you bring to us each week.

Hive account@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.

Hive account@pfunk is a Steemit witness and helps keep the platform working and you can vote for him here

Let's Keep Hive account@pfunk In The Top 20 Witnesses By Voting For Him

Vote For Pfunk For Witness And Keep Steemit Open Mic Growing Strong We Need Your Help Now

Special thanks to Hive account@curie for selecting and supporting musicians who have entered Steemit Open Mic.

Special thanks to Hive account@ausbitbank for creating the new Hive account@openmic account and to all who funded it with +24,000 Steem Power

Special thanks to Hive account@lukestokes for his delegation of 5,000 SP to the Hive account@openmic account. This helps each entry earn a little more for their performances.

Did you know that you can earn curation rewards while supporting musicians on Steemit? Read this to discover how.

Following the Open Mic Trail only upvotes people who enter Open Mic. You Still have to upvote this post manually to support the Open Mic Project.

You can read more about it here:

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

Hive account@trevorpetrie just started an MP3 Open Mic Radio Station for everyone entering Open Mic. You can learn more about that here:

http://3steem.com/openmicradio/

Calling All Open Mic People Check This Out --- by Hive account@passion-ground

Looking For Developers To Help Build A Dedicated Open Mic Website Built On The Steem Blockchain --- by Hive account@luzcypher

The cutoff date to enter however is 12.00 PM UTC Time (Friday, 11th May 2018). Find your UTC time here. Entries posted late will not be upvoted. Please get your entries in on time. Thank you.##

Winners will be announced Monday, the 14th of May 2018.

Steemit Open Mic Week 84 Part 1

Steemit Open Mic is growing so fast that a lot of people are entering without really reading the rules so I want to do a little house cleaning for those entering the contest.

The bigger this grows the easier it is to miss someone's entry post so following these rules makes us see you have entered so we can upvote you.

For more on the rules read, What Are The Rules To Enter Steemit Open Mic And Why Do We Have Rules Anyways?

Steemit Open Mic is a live music contest and we need to know that you are really playing or singing us a song for this contest in particular. That's why to qualify for prizes you must say "Steemit Open Mic Week" (next week number) at the beginning of your video just before you play or sing the song. If you don't or if you edit in later onto a prerecorded performance you will not qualify for prizes.

If your song is an original song then you MUST put the word "original" in your title. Original songs get a small bonus right now and it is easier to find all the original songs with the word added in the title.

The next thing that is very important it to begin your title with "Steemit Open Mic Week (the current week number)" and place that as the first words of your title or I may not be able to find your post at all.

Here is a perfect example of a correctly titled post to enter Steemit Open Mic for an original song.

This would be a perfectly titled post for a cover song entering the contest.

Theses posts are really easy to find in the feed and upvote them. They can easily be spotted so none of them get missed.

Also, Hive account@andybets from steemreports.com is working on a chart that is targeting those keywords to sort all entries by originals and covers.

It is SO cool and you can check it out with this sneak peak of the Steemit Open Mic Chart

NOTE: The order this chart lists the performances has no bearing on choosing the finalists. Just because a video is at the top doesn't mean they will win the contest.

Steemit Open Mic Week 84 - See Who Played Open Mic PART ONE

This week's entries have been split into two posts because we have so many entries that we broke the post size limit on Steemit!

This post is part one and this is

Steemit Open Mic Week 84 - See Who Played - Part 2

We had 286 entries this week of which 277 are valid and included in these weekly posts! Awesome guys!

Let's Keep Hive account@pfunk In The Top 20 Witnesses By Voting For Him

Following the Open Mic Trail only upvotes people who enter Open Mic. You Still have to upvote this post manually to support the Open Mic Project.

The cutoff date to enter however is 12.00 PM UTC Time (Friday, 11th May 2018). Find your UTC time here. Entries posted late will not be upvoted. Please get your entries in on time. Thank you.##

Steemit Open Mic Week 84 Part 1

300 In Steem Prizes

Last Chance To Vote

The cutoff date to enter however is 12.00 PM UTC Time (Friday, 11th May 2018). Find your UTC time here. Entries posted late will not be upvoted.

Two ways To Vote

Vote On Each Contestant Page

This post is part one and this is

Steemit Open Mic Week 84 - See Who Played - Part 2