--- title: "Birthday Music" date: 2020-03-29T13:23:01-04:00 draft: false tags: ["Music"] --- I was scrolling around in the [Free Music Archive](https://freemusicarchive.org/) and I stumbled upon the entries of their [The New Birthday Song Contest](https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Happy_Birthday_Song_Contest/The_New_Birthday_Song_Contest) back in 2012. One of my favorites is an entry by [Kevin Lax](http://www.kevinlax.com/) titled [Happy Birthday](https://files.freemusicarchive.org/storage-freemusicarchive-org/music/WFMU/Kevin_Lax/The_New_Birthday_Song_Contest/Kevin_Lax_-_Happy_Birthday.mp3) licensed under [Creative Commons Attributioni v3](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). {{< addaudio "https://files.freemusicarchive.org/storage-freemusicarchive-org/music/WFMU/Kevin_Lax/The_New_Birthday_Song_Contest/Kevin_Lax_-_Happy_Birthday.mp3" >}} Even though the competition is long over (and I don't have much skill) I still decided to record a small entry which I'll title [Happy Birthday](/music/happybday.ogg) licensed under [Creative Commons Attribution v4](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). {{< addaudio "/music/happybday.ogg" >}}