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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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Do well to subscribe to our community to share and enjoy your quality African Tunes.

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Christmas is a day we remember Christ's magnificent birth, which was necessary for his marvelous work of Salvation, and which was born out of God's love for humanity. Many activities have been introduced into this magnificent event over the years, making it a perfect season to share, express, and celebrate love, peace, and happiness with one another.

The Christmas season has a distinct beauty and elegance that reminds us of the events surrounding Christ's birth, as recorded in Matthew 1:1-2:23 and Luke 1:26-38; 2:1-20. Similarly, the songs of this season remind us of the same, thus we hear songs about the birth of Christ, the night he was born, the lovely singing of the choir of angels, and the humble manger he was born in, amongst other themes.

Drums Rolling!!!

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As a result, Afri-tunes is launching a Special Christmas event to create a special vibe on Hive for the Christmas season as a way of displaying love, unifying every culture and language through music, and promoting the love and joy of Christmas.

Yes! Yes!! Yes!!!

We want to hear the beautiful Christmas songs in your native language.

Therefore, for this particular event, each participant is invited to compose or sing a cover of any Christmas song in any traditional or native language. The lyrics should be written in the same language as the music, with an English translation included. Also, let us know what this song means to you and why you chose it as well.

Are you ready???

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PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS

• Compose or present a cover of a Christmas song
• Sing in any native language of your choice (except English)
• Give your best!
• Don’t frown while singing...😁
• Express your song through any African musical genre or style: Afrobeat, Afro-Jazz, Amapiano, Highlife, Makossa, Soukous, Sebene, Fuji, Tungba, Juju, Ogene, Apala, Palm Wine Groove... etc.

OR

• Express your song through any genre which has elements or influences of African tunes in it: Reggae, Samba, Salsa, Calypso, Rumba, Afro-Venezuelan music, Blues and Gaita Zuliana... etc.

• Videos should be exclusively for the Afri-tunes Christmas Event

NB:

• English songs will be accepted if you are from United Kingdom or the US.
• Songs that have English lyrics in it will also be accepted, provided that the native language dominates.
• Songs in Pidgin English is accepted.
• For instrumentalists who would play without singing, try, if you can, to include a YouTube link to the same song sung by a choir so that listeners may more readily connect with the tune.

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GUIDELINES FOR POSTING ✅️

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For valid entry

• Subscribe to Afri-tunes Community
• Post in Afri-tunes Community
• Upload Video:
  • Either via 3speak frontend
  • Or YouTube video Via Ecency frontend
• Use the unique tags of the event in any order of your choice:
  • #afritunes
  • #africhristmas
  • #music
• Use the unique tags of our sponsors:
  • #ecency
  • #tunes (optional - music suffices)
• Include “AFRITUNES CHRISTMAS EVENT” in your title
• Say your username, event name and the title of the song you wish to present before you begin to sing.
• Let your Word Count be 250+
  • Include your reason or inspiration for choosing the song.
  • Mention the language and musical genre of the song.
  • Put down the lyrics of the song along with its English translation,
• PROPERLY cite all external materials (videos, images and text) – ENSURE TO PUT THE LINK TO THE SOURCE

Cite this way:

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

• Only one entry is allowed
• Comment on, at least, two other entries.
• Optional: You can also join the Afri-tunes Discord Server and other music servers to promote your song.
• Optional: You can also promote it on Twitter or Leothreads with the hashtag #afritunes and #africhristmas
• Optional: Reblog this post, share on Twitter and Leothreads.

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🗓 DURATION 🗓

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Afri-tunes Christmas Event will begin on 16th December 2022 by 00:00 WAT (UTC+1) and will end on 22nd December 2022 by 23:59 WAT (UTC+1)

The Winners will be selected and prizes will be given on Christmas Day, December 25th 2022.

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🏆 PRIZE POOL 🏆

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Total Prize Pool as of right now:
60 Hive + 1000 Ecency Points + 100 Music Tokens + 50 Leo Tokens

BEST PERFORMANCE

☆ 1st – 30 Hive + 150 Ecency Points + 50 Music Tokens + 30 Leo Tokens

☆ 2nd – 7 Hive + 20 Music Tokens + 10 Leo Tokens

☆ 3rd – 3 Hive + 10 Music Tokens + 5 Leo Tokens

ENGAGEMENT RACE

☆ 1st – 10 Hive + 500 Ecency Points + 20 Music Tokens + 5 Leo Tokens

☆ 2nd – 2 Hive + 200 Ecency Points

☆ 3rd – 1 Hive + 150 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!!!

The first valid entry will receive 5 Hive

Watch out for further unexpected prizes!

We are currently looking for more sponsors, so if you would want to support this event, please send your donation in the form of Hive, HBD, Hive Engine Tokens, Ecency Points, or NFTs to any of the following accounts: @afri-tunes @afritunes, or @hive-195772. You can also chat with us on the Afritunes Discord server. We appreciate each and every contribution.

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Thanks to the kind assistance of our lovely and fantastic sponsors, the prize pool for this competition is made possible.

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We highly appreciate Ecency for the amazing support towards the Afri-tunes Christmas Event and Afri-tunes Weekly Event.

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.

@ecency has sponsored 750 Ecency points for this event and for subsequent Afri-tunes Weekly Contests.

Thank you @ecency, and thank you @melinda010100 in a very special way.

We are grateful to BlockTunes for the amazing support towards the Afri-tunes Christmas Event.

BlockTunes is a new and promising musical frontend on Hive. It is a platform on Hive where you can get your music distributed to mainstream streaming platforms like Spotify, iTunes/Apple Music, Amazon, YouTube Music and TikTok Music, among others.

$MUSIC token is a reward token of the Blocktunes project with which you can use to purchase NFTs or you can stake to earn revenue.

@blocktunes has sponsored 100 $Music tokens for the Afri-tunes Christmas Event.

Thank you @blocktunes, and thank you @thelogicaldude in a very special way.

The rest fund in the prize pool was sponsored by our beloved Moderators and Admins of Afri-tunes Community.

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

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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}

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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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