Afrobeat prince Femi Kuti with his 11-piece Positive Force.
Composer/conductor Brett Dean has enjoyed a stellar few months of recognition with last week's $60,000 Melbourne Prize for Music. Guitarist Stephen Magnusson won the Melbourne Prize for Outstanding Musician. The third Melbourne Prize winner was singer, composer and multi-instrumentalist Kate Kelsey-Sugg, who took the Development Award. Punters can hear all 20 finalists and vote for the Civic Choice Award at Federation Square until Friday. melbourneprize.org
Dance, colour and plenty of action
''Entrancing dance'' and ''awesome women'' are two threads running through the 50-odd acts of WOMADelaide 2014, says programmer Annette Tripodi. Among the exclusive attractions are Afrobeat prince Femi Kuti with his 11-piece Positive Force (pictured) and the Slow Dancing installation by David Michalek, a slow motion mash-up of 43 of the world's most accomplished dancers on three screens. They will join headliners Billy Bragg and Arrested Development at Adelaide's Botanic Park next March 7 to 10. womadelaide.com.au
Musician Brett Dean. Photo: Luis Enrique Ascui
Rock solid book on music
Melbourne writer Christian Ryan's conviction that ''Australian music needed a big and great music book" culminates in Rock Country (Hardie Grant, $75), a collection of untold stories by writers and musicians with a photographic component ''of equal weight to the words''. Ryan's essay on David McComb draws heavily from the late Triffids frontman's unpublished writings.
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