Adelaide festival 2013: day nine - in pictures

As the festival gets under way with Writers' Week by day and Barrio nightclub by night, we take a look at the highlights of the past 24 hours

From Writers' Week and Doveman's Burgundy Stain Sessions to the Fringe, here's a selection of the best images from the past few days at the Adelaide festival

Hugh Masekela, Jimmy Cliff, Salif Keita and Tim Rogers and the Bamboos have all appeared at WOMADelaide – the Australian version of Womad, taking place in Adelaide – while festivalgoers have partied in the sweltering sun

Hugh Masekela and Goran Bregovic made sweltering festival-goers at the WOMADelaide festival in South Australia feel even hotter

On day three we've been down to kids' day as part of writers' week, and checked out the Nick Cave concert

Alicia Canter: Adelaide festival Writers Week celebrated emerging writers as well as well-known voices such as Christos Tsiolkas and Alexander McCall smith over the last week

David Sefton, Adelaide's new artistic director, was hired to overhaul its programming. And he started by reuniting one of his favourite bands: industrial stalwarts Severed Heads. Interview by Alison Rourke

A selection of images from the first day and night of this year's Adelaide festival, featuring Neil Finn and Paul Kelly in performance, a speech from the premier of South Australia and violinist Laurie Anderson playing in skates frozen in blocks of ice …