The first phase of the contest murgas children of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Carnival It will be held this Thursday, at 7:00 p.m., at the Fairgrounds of the capital of Tenerife, and with it the festival contests will open.
In this first phase, the murgas Los Mamelones, Guachipanduzy, Castorcitos, Triqui Traquitos and Distractos will participate in a contest in which 16 groups will participate until Saturday, when the third performance will take place.
The presentation jury will be made up of María del Carmen Rodríguez Ortega, art director and theatrical costume designer; Ana Consolación Amador Pérez, seamstress and textile designer; Paula Plaza Moreno, doctor in Fine Arts and teacher; Moisés Norberto Pérez Carrillo, senior technician in Applied Arts and window dresser, and Claudia Rebeca Skog Linares, finalist for the Carnival 2024 Gala Prime Time poster and graduate in Fine Arts.
For the interpretation section, those responsible for failing the awards will be Fátima Febles de León, TVC presenter; Pilar Coello Hernández, host of Onda Joven El Rosario; Juan Lima Cuello, general director of Marcha FM, and Héctor Javier Fernández Brito (Mago Héctor), children’s magician.
Pablo Fernández Pérez, singer and contestant of La Voz Kids 2022, will also be part of this jury; Ariadna Cabero Lemus (Ariann), singer and winner of international singing festivals and winner of Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards 2019; and Manoly Triviño Alonso, director of the Municipal Plan Choir and White Voices of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Journalists Mariam Moragas and José Marrero will be in charge of conducting the three phases of the children’s murgas contest.
