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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 12:00

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 OAM is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a Melbourne Fringe Festival Living Legend, and was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize in 2020. In 2021 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Green Room Awards Association. Most recently, Richard received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in June 2024. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts