Today, starting at 7:00 p.m., the Fairgrounds will host the first phase of the Children’s Murgas competition and, therefore, the start of the Carnival competitions. On this occasion, Los Mamelones will be in charge of inaugurating the carnival stage, to continue with Guachipanduzy, Castorcitos, Triqui Traquitos and Distracted.
A total of 16 groups are participating this year in the contest, which will end on Saturday, January 20, with the celebration of the third phase of the contest. At the end of this last event with the children’s murgas, the identity of the winners will be known. Each of these groups will perform two contest songs, in addition to their presentation and farewell.
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 of the Carnival Poster 2024 Gala Prime Time, 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; Héctor Javier Fernández Brito (Mago Héctor), child magician; Pablo Fernández Pérez, singer and contestant of La Voz Kids 2022; 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 Coro del Plan Municipal and Voces Blancas de Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The journalists Mariam Moragas and José Marrero will be in charge of conducting the three phases of the Children’s Murgas contest. Tickets to attend this event are available to the public at the Fairgrounds box office and on the ticketscarnavaltenerife.es platform at the price of 3 euros for adults and 2 euros for children.
In addition, the contest will be offered live by Mírame Televisión, in addition to Canal 4 Televisión and Ahora Televisión, while Televisión Canaria will broadcast live from the rtvc.es website and on the YouTube channel the three phases of the Murgas Infantiles contest.
