Vote for the Jan/Feb 2020 "Originals" festival

[64Guitars]

It's time to vote for our next Originals festival which will run from January 1 to February 29. Voting starts now and runs for 10 days. You can change your vote any time until the closing of the poll on Monday, December 30th. To do so, click "Remove vote" to cancel your previous vote, then vote again.

This poll is for the "Originals" festival. There is no poll for the "Covers" festival this time because we've decided to make it the "Lost in 2019" fest in which we'll pay tribute to any artists who died in 2019. See this post.

Remember, "Covers" is covers only, and "Originals" is originals preferred but covers welcome unless otherwise stated in the festival's description.

• FutureFest - songs about the future near far utopian dystopian personal universal uncertain hopeful etc etc
• OAP Fest
• Summer Holidays - Songs about the hazy, crazy, lazy days of summer
• Driving Songs - Road trips, freedom of the open road, traffic jams, the good and the bad.
• FriendsFest - Songs about friends and friendship.
• HomeFest - Songs about the homeless or anything to do with homes.
• PetFest - Write an ode to your favorite 4-legged, scaled, finned, or green friend
• BoozerFest - Songs about drinking, hangovers, or the camaraderie of your favorite pub/bar

[64Guitars]

Voting closed. The winner is:

Songs about the future - near, far, utopian, dystopian, personal, universal, uncertain, hopeful, etc.

[Hook]

Missed the voting completely but very happy with the results.
Rock on!

[alfstone]

Missed the voting completely but very happy with the results.
Rock on!

Me too, LOL! 

Alfredo

[Hilary]

Me too - I'd love to know how many people actually voted.

[Redler]

Me too - I'd love to know how many people actually voted.

This time only 10 voters...

[64Guitars]

Christmas is a busy time for everyone, so I always try to allow extra time for voting. This year, the poll was open for 10 days instead of the usual 5 days. But still only 10 people voted.

Sadly, the number of voters has declined over the years. Here are the number of votes for each poll last year:

2019	Covers Fest	Originals Fest
Jan/Feb	18	16
Mar/Apr	22	19
May/Jun	15	13
Jul/Aug	no poll	14
Sep/Oct	16	15     (8 votes on the covers fest tie-breaker)
Nov/Dec	no poll	11

As you can see, they range from 11 votes to 22 with an average of 15.9 votes per poll. I'm sure we have more than 16 active members, so an average of only 16 votes is pretty disappointing.

I wish we could get more people to vote. Even if you know you won't have time to post a song for the fest, you should still vote for the theme you'd most enjoy listening to. And I always ask everyone to vote in both polls, yet not once last year did the number of votes in the covers poll and the originals poll match!  Please folks, always vote in both polls.

[Hilary]

Me too - I'd love to know how many people actually voted.

This time only 10 voters...

Thanks Kari