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RE: Voices of Open Mic - the good, the bad & the beautiful @nathankaye
@nathankaye you expressed exactly what Open Mic is all about. Even though the format is a contest it is really about building a supportive musical community for musicians. The prizes are just a way to entice people to participate, but the real prize is getting involved in the supportive community.
You definitely get what we're doing here and your contributions through your music are valued, appreciated, and I feel blessed you're a part of Open Mic.
Thanks so much for sharing your music here and for making this video. Looking forward to hearing your music for many more weeks to come.
Peace.
Thanks so much @luzcypher!
It's such a joy and honour to be involved with Open Mic. Thanks so much for opening your heart to my music. 🙏🏽🎼💚Clearly, we agree that this is a beautiful and unique place for musicians and that warms my heart.
And I think that the financial rewards and prizes are essential because the arts need to be valued in our culture more than it is.
As it stands, it's only the hugely successful stars (& the record label corporations) that benefit the most financially from music, yet it is the unacknowledged, hardworking, grassroots musicians that are the lifeblood of the music art form in society that struggle to make ends meet the most.
In fact, before the advent of recorded music as a commodity which created labels and the superstar mentality, it was the grassroots musicians (and actors and dancers and artisans) who would travel from town to town (village to village) that would bring people together and be the voice of the people's trials and tribulations.
I feel very much a part of that old tradition.
And I feel this Open Mic on a blockchain platform has the potential to bring that old tradition into the digital era on a large scale. And that starts by (finanically) honouring the artists that create the pieces of work so that they can continue to create meaningful, transformative, uplifting, healing art, rather than the homogenised music-like-products promulgated én masse by corporations.