We bring you a mainly musical newsletter this Tuesday. The
2013 MK Awards, which was held this past Sunday saw Van Coke Kartel once again dominate the accolades; congrats to them and all the other winners! View our gallery for all that
MK action. Next up, the MTN SAMAS;
check out all the nominees. In other music news, those generous 5 Gummers have announced indie band The Kooks as the next
#5GumExperience headliners, and Sindy Peters interviews
Sipho 'Hotstix' Mabuse about the third Music Exchange Conference which just wrapped up last week.
Speaking of interviews, Eugene Yiga chats to
Sean Bovim, director, choreographer and mastermind of Bovim Ballet's latest production Private Presley, while Daniel Dercksen finds out from actor
Alex Middlebrook what it was like starring in Fugard's Master Harold... and the Boys.
This week you could win two tickets to see
Mi Casa and Natasha Meister at the Sunday Kirstenbosch Summer Sunset Concert.
Happy Easter and happy long weekend!
Ruth Cooper, production manager (@biz_lounge)
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The 7th annual MK Awards was held at the Pretoria State Theatre on Sunday night 24th of March to celebrate and to honour South Africa's local artists. 
Johannesburg: Mauritius, followed closely by Thailand, took pole position during the 2012 and early 2013 holiday seasons in travel franchise Harvey World Travel's compilation of destination preferences. 
Short & Sweet Cinema proudly invites you to share in a unique short-film experience, rich in the distilled romance of one of cinema's fondest bygone eras. An eccentrically sentimental selection of ground-breaking filmmaking and nostalgic enchantment, Cape Town's first ever short-film drive-in will take place in a secluded urban field, framed by the Lion's Head and fringing the Atlantic Ocean. 
The latest #5GumExperience is to be The Kooks, who will be performing on 19 April in Joburg and 20 April in Cape Town. 
The nominations announcement for the 19th Annual MTN South African Music Awards (MTN SAMA 19) was made this morning at The Turbine Hall in Newtown today, Wednesday, 20 March 2013. 
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