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UNESCO bid music to Adelaide’s ears

The South Australian capital is angling to join Bogota, Seville, Ghent and Glasgow as the world’s next UNESCO City of Music.

29 Jul 2015

Richard Watts

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Andrey Lebedev at the 2014 Adelaide Guitar Festival. Image supplied.

Adelaide has made a bid to become the next UNESCO City of Music. If successful, the South Australian capital will join a global network of 69 Creative Cities across 32 countries covering seven creative fields: Crafts and Folk Art, Design, Film, Gastronomy, Literature, Music and Media Arts.

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Richard Watts

Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts