Afri-Anniversary: Celebrating Afri-tunes @ 1 year on Hive (3rd - 9th March)

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WELCOME TO AFRI-TUNES COMMUNITY

A community open to all musicians all over the world, to share and enjoy African music.


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AFRI-ANNIVERSARY


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Oya!!!
Let's Go!!!

dum-du-du-dum-dum-du-du!!!

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It's time for Afri-Anniversary oooo!!!

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We invite all Writers and Musicians (Vocalists, Instrumentalists, Song writers, Music composers and Orchestra musicians) to join us in celebrating this great Milestone on Hive.

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Our contest for the Afri-Anniversary will have two categories; music and writing. The aim of the contest is to celebrate the African Tunes or Music on Hive, and this you can do so by sharing your lovely musical piece or your written piece related to the niche (African Music).


MUSIC CATEGORY

We encourage you to sing or play your musical instrument with passion and love. You can either compose a song or present a cover of a song that is directly or indirectly related to any African musical genre.


For Valid Entry

  • Subscribe to Afritunes Community
  • Post in Afritunes Community
  • Upload video via 3speak or Youtube video via ecency
  • Use the unique tags of the event
  • Include “AFRI-ANNIVERSARY” in your title
  • At the introductory part of the video: say your name, week title (Afri-Anniversary) and the title of the song you wish to present.
  • Let your word count be 250+
    • Let your writeup contain more of your inspiration behind the song or reason for choosing the song.
    • If lyrics are added, it must be cited properly.
  • Properly cite all external materials.
  • "Proper" use of instrumentals as background music is allowed

Those who find it challenging to select a song for this Afri-Anniversary can choose any of the suggested songs:
GenreTitleArtist
GospelThis year (blessings)Victor Thompson
SecularChampionFIREBOY DML

Original instrumental and Acapella is recommended, however if you intend to use external instrumental you can extract the instrumental from the song via moises.ai/. If you need further guidance comment on this post and we will guide you adequately. Remember to cite Moises.ai in your post as the tool for extraction.

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WRITING CATEGORY

We also invite writers who would love to participate in this amazing event. You are invited to share your inspirational, motivational, experiential, financial, comedy or fictional form of writeup that directly or indirectly relates to African music. For instance, you can write about:

  • Your best African song(s)
  • Your experience in an African cultural event (with emphasis on the musical aspect)
  • Relationship between African music and Gaita, Flamenco, Rumba, Salsa or Reggae.
  • The future of African music
  • Incorporating Web3 into African music
  • African music on Hive
  • Hive Marketing using the model: Afri-tunes Branded T-Shirt embedded with QR
  • Your hope, plans or ideas for Afri-tunes community
  • Or.... anything creative (except writeups that are NSFW).

For Valid Entry

  • Subscribe to Afritunes Community
  • Post in any community of your choice (Afri-tunes Community or any)
  • Include “AFRI-ANNIVERSARY” in your title
  • Use the unique tags of the event
  • Let your word count be 500+
  • Properly cite all external materials (images or quotations).
  • Include your link in the post that will be shared at the beginning of the Anniversary week.

Side Information

Members of @hive-naija and @hive.ghana can publish their post for Afri-Anniversary in their individual communities (Hive Naija or Hive Ghana) as they would also be eligible for the unique reward and mini-contest from the Communities.


GENERAL INFORMATION FOR AFRI-ANNIVERSARY CONTEST

  • The Afri-Anniversary contest will begin on Friday, 3rd March 2023 by 00:00 (GMT +1) and will end on Thursday, 9th March 2023 by 23:59 (GMT +1).
  • You can only make one entry (either music or writing)
  • Comment on, at least, two Afri-anniversary posts
  • Ensure to use the contest tag and include your link in the post that will be shared at the beginning of the Anniversary week to make sure your entry is valid.
  • If you have the Afri-tunes Branded T-Shirt, we'd love to see you wear it to sing or/and upload lovely pictures with the T-Shirt in your post write-up.

☆ PROPERLY cite all external materials (images and text) - ENSURE TO PUT THE LINK TO THE SOURCE

Cite this way:

[Lyrics or text Source](then put the web link here)


BIG NEWS!!!

Everyone who makes an entry for the Afri-Anniversary contest (music or writing) within the time duration will receive a special Badge from HIVEBUZZ!!!

We are happy to receive this awesome sponsorship from the @hivebuzz team, led by @arcange. It is a great privilege for us for this anniversary to be crafted in the evergreen archives of Hive Blockchain.

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AFRI-ANNIVERSARY CONTEST PRIZES


MUSIC CATEGORY

1st Prize – 10 Hive + 5 Legion Tokens + 5 Leo Tokens + 150 Ecency Points + 100 Music Tokens

2nd Prize – 5 Hive + 50 Ecency Points + 50 Music Tokens


WRITING CATEGORY

1st Prize – 15 Hive + 300 DREEM Tokens + 3 HBI (Hive Basic Income) + 150 Ecency Points + 100 HP delegation (for 30 days)

2nd Prize – 8 Hive + 150 DREEM Tokens + 2 HBI + 50 Ecency points + 75 HP delegation (for 30 days)


Note:

  • Writing category prizes of 5 Hive + 300 DREEM Tokens + 3 HBI Points + 100 HP delegation; and 3 Hive + 150 DREEM Tokens + 2 HBI + 75 HP delegation are sponsored by Dreemport.
  • You can join the Dreemport family and turn in your post to get curated and reach a wider audience. Read more about it here
  • Vyb & Pob Curators "may" curate quality entries
  • Indiaunited Curators "may" curate quality entries
  • Lazy Panda Curation Trail "may" support a few quality entries.
  • Afri-tunes Curation Trail "will" curate quality and valid entries.
  • GIVE YOUR BEST!!!

ENGAGEMENT RACE

1st – 5 Hive + 300 Ecency points
2nd – 3 Hive + 150 Ecency points
3rd – 2 Hive + 100 Ecency points

NB:

Every Subscribed member of Afri-tunes Community is eligible to run the race for the Engagement reward.

May the Best Engager Win!!!


LEOTHREADS ENGAGEMENT

15 Leo tokens will be shared among those who share their post or 3speak video on leothreads with the hashtags #afritunes #music

Afri-tunes Leo Curation Trail will also curate #afritunes threads.

NB:


SPECIAL PRIZES

First "Valid" entry will receive 2 Hive.


Always remember to spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes.


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If you want to sponsor the contest prizes with Hive, Leo or Ecency points, you can send the tokens to @afri-tunes or @afritunes, or you can reach out to us via Afri-tunes Discord Server!!!

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  • You can also join the Afri-tunes Discord Server and other music servers to promote your song.

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Click the banner above to join Afri-tunes Discord Channel


AFRI-TUNES COMMUNITY HUB ON DISCORD


Afri-tunes Community is on discord. Do well to join the Afri-tunes Community HUB discord server by clicking the image above.

Join Afri-tunes Community HUB Server on Discord!!!

Let's get to know ourselves better and make our journey on Hive an awesome experience. 👌


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💫 THANK YOU TO OUR AMAZING SPONSORS 💥


Thanks to the kind assistance of our lovely and fantastic sponsors, the prize pool for the Afri-Anniversary Event is made possible.


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Ecency is an amazing frontend on Hive that enhances content creation experience. Posting, commenting and engaging with Ecency's web or mobile version earns you Ecency points.

With the Ecency Points you can boost and promote your/other's post, as well as gift the points to others.

@melinda010100 (@ecency) has sponsored Ecency points for Afri-Anniversary event and subsequent Afri-tunes Weekly Contests .

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Leofinance Community is a strong hub for crypto and finance related content on Hive Ecosystem. Leofinance founded Leothreads as a microblogging platform where everyone can share their short writeups, pictures and videos. Musicians can promote their musical posts and share their musical videos to get more engagement and earn $Leo tokens.

@leogrowth (leofinance) has sponsored Leo tokens for the Afri-Anniversary event and for subsequent Afri-tunes Weekly Contests.

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The Stick Up Boys (@stickupboys) are a collective of musicians, writers, producers, and multi-instrumentalists from Brighton, in the UK. They are well recognized on Hive for their love of music and arts. They also promote other musical projects and communities on Hive, and they strive to create more use cases for the Legion token in collaboration with the BRO project.

The Legion token is a non inflationary utility token for the BRO economy and it offers monthly Hive dividends to all its holders. Stick Up Boys has sponsored 5 Legion tokens for this event and for subsequent Afri-tunes Weekly Contests.

Read all about Stick Up Boys https://linktr.ee/StickUpBoys


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ReggaeJAHM is a place for lovers of Reggae, Hip Hop, Caribbean Culture & IRIE vibes. It has its own unique frontend https://www.reggaejahm.com/, and you can earn the $Jahm token when you use #jahm hashtag in your post.

The ReggaeJAHM Community has been a great support for Afri-tunes Project right from Afri-tunes' inception. Special thanks to @dmilliz and @reggaejahm.


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Dreemport is a platform that seeks to establish authentic relationships between readers and writers by promoting and rewarding content and engagement, as well as giving authors wider audience/reach for their quality content.


The Dreemport family also offers support to and collaborate with creative projects. You can check this page to join the Dreemers.

Special thanks to @dreemsteem and the Dreemport family for the wonderful support.


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Hivebuzz is a gamification project on Hive that helps you track your achievements on Hive blockchain, and notifies you when you receive new badges.

Special thanks to @arcange and the @hivebuzz team for the sponsorship of the Afri-Anniversary Badges.


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@lazy-panda is the "Official Curation Account Of Hive Learners Community." The Hive Learners Community equips you with the necessary skills and knowledge to better your Hive experience and become a better Hivian.


Special thanks to @mahirabdullah and the Hive Learners team for supporting the project.


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Verify Your Brain Tribe alongside its token VYB (Vybrainium) was created to complement the Proof of Brain tribe and POB token. It presents itself as a working solution to the prevalent issues on Hive in respect to curation and abuse. You can read its initial whitepaper to learn more about this project.

Special thanks to the VYB curation team for their wonderful support @samsmith1971 @wrestlingdesires @amberkashif @joseph23 and the VYB team.


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@indiaunited is a loving community that guide, encourage and support members from India. The community also supports manual curation of quality content and assist communities on Hive Blockchain.

Special thanks to @bhattg and the Indiaunited Curators for this support.


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We hope to receive more collaboration, support and sponsorship in order to facilitate the growth of this project.


Click the link below to join the Afri-tunes Curation Trail so that, with your help, our Curation Trail can become stronger and better able to sustain and support high-quality posts.

Join Afri-tunes Curation Trail here

Here is a guide if you don't know how to join a Curation Trail


You can also delegate HP to @afri-tunes (Afri-tunes official account) to help us curate high-quality African music for Hive.

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Let's Spread the love, the calmness, the smiles, the culture, the songs and the dance associated with African tunes.

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If you love this project do well to comment, reblog, upvote, tag one or two friends and support us in any way!!!



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Remember to share the link of your entry in the comment section below. You can also share your thoughts, contributions and suggestions.

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Just like yesterday when the community started and was under music community. Finally celebrating a year on here, this is so great and a massive improvement

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Thanks brother
We thank God for always being there for us and for aiding our growth
More great years ahead 💪

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Yes brother, good to see the community growing well

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Happy first anniversary! Cheers to more years of Afri- music on the chain❤....
Can't wait to see all the beautiful presentations 👏✌

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Yessssssoooo
I'll be expecting your presentation 🥺
In fact, my anticipation level to hear your voice has increased to the Zenith point 🥺🥺

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Oyao, where is the DJ? Who is sharing the rice and drinks? Let's start the party.

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Na you dey dey wait for oooo
Make you drop something for boys 😁😁😁

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Happy anniversary to Afri-tunes 🥰🥰🥰🥰. I feel so happy about this even though I don't post anything in the community. Congratulations to all the members, all of you are really talented singers and instrumentalists creating good content for us in the hive community 🥰💯 I am congratulating the founder of this beautiful community, you have been one of my greatest inspirations. This is only the beginning of beautiful things ❣️❣️

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Yes yes yes
Thank you so much dearwe 🥺🥺🥺
Its only the beginning of beautiful things like you said 🥰

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I look forward to seeing them blossom💕💞💖😍

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Awwwwwn
Yea, they will 🥰 and you'll see them
I go force you 😅😅😅

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Congratulations to all Afri-Tunes,
Happy first anniversary, Cheers to you all.
Here is my entry:
https://peakd.com/hive-195772/@chelsie-b/afri-anniversary-music-the-language-of-africa-pidgin-eng

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Your pidgin carry weight oooo
No be small
E make sense pass Tom Tom
Lol

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!LOL. Thank you so much for reading😁

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You're welcome 🥰

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Hurrah!!!

Congratulations to Afri-tunes community and afri-tuners. Its indeed awesome tk be part of this community and tk witness her first anniversary.

Since joining I've had series of experiences here by posting and commenting and getting engaged in several ways.

Wow, I say Kudos to @ksam and his team. Am sure, It wasn't an easy road to bring this up but they traded it; all we see his that #GRACE has taken the lead and boom its successfully accomplished.

I shall definitely be part of this show.

Wait, am coming👷 just get your dancing shoes ready coz' we gonna rock it bit by bit💃✌

#CHEERS @ksam and grew💪✌

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Thank you so much brotherly
Thank you for your continous and back to back support... you too much ooo 🙌🙌🙌

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Ómó we suppose celebrate oo, make everybody for different states run their own party..this is no small feat.

My Lasgidi people, where y'all at?😃

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Hahaha
Omo eeehn
Even people for Lagos live world apart from each other.. lol

If not eeehn, we for dey do one or two by now 😅😅😅

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Congratulations Fam ❤️❤️💐🎊

AFRI TUNES to the world

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Yessso
Afri-tunes to the world 💪💪💪

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heheheh so sorry i'm just seeing this now - I must have missed it!! I'm so glad I didn't miss it in time to upvote! hehehe

you did a FABULOUS job of gathering so much support on this!!! Can't wait to see all the entries you have! :)

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Ahhhh
Yes yes yes 😅
We had to plan and work hard to ensure that we make this event a remarkable and special one for us, the Community and the project on Hive.

Thank you for your wonderful support ♥

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Thank you for your participation

I see you also submitted another entry for the hive Naija... you would have submitted only one entry from Hive Naija, and that'll make you eligible for both rewards....