The final of the Adult Murgas contest of the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife 2025 will put the finishing touch tomorrow, Friday 14, to a week devoted to humor and criticism. Eight groups will compete on the stage of the Recinto Ferial, after this morning the jury has determined that La Sonora, Zeta Zetas, Irónicos, Chaladas, Guachinquietas, Trapaseros, Bambones and Mamelucos, who will perform on Friday in that order.
The chosen ones will reach the final after the celebration of the three previous phases of the contest, in which a total of 23 murgas have participated.
Thousands of people have followed live the evolutions of these groups on the stage of the Recinto Ferial, an audience joined by the spectators of Televisión Canaria, which has broadcast live the three phases and will do the same this Friday with the final, for which there are no more tickets left.
Precisely, two RTVC journalists, Laura Afonso and Alexis Hernández, will be in charge of presenting the show, which will begin at 8:30 p.m. with the traditional performance, out of competition, of the Afilarmónica Ni Fú-Ni Fá. For his part, the journalist and communicator Manoj Daswani will continue to maintain interaction with the followers of the murgas from social networks, managing to place the contest of criticism and Carnival chicharrero within the “hashtags” with greater impact of the day at the level of all Spain.
The Interpretation jury is made up of Andrés Fulgencio Estévez, musician, composer and former member of renowned Tenerife orchestras, as well as member of the General Society of Authors of Spain (SGAE); Manoly Triviño Alonso, teacher and director of children’s choirs in Santa Cruz de Tenerife; Rocío González Romero, music teacher and percussionist; Marlene Meneses Mendoza, journalist, announcer and presenter of carnival events; Ivo López García, announcer of CD Tenerife and presenter of sporting events; Sergio Branic, musician, composer, artist manager and member of the Latin Grammy’s Academy; Jéssika Rojano, humorist; and José Antonio González ‘El Flaco’, director of the murga Los Singuangos and the rondalla Peña del Lunes.
Patricia Hodgson González, a graduate in Fine Arts and a teacher, with an extensive trajectory in these events, is the jury of the Presentation. She is accompanied by Claudia Rebeca Skog Linares, also a Fine Arts graduate, visual artist and finalist in the Carnival 2024 poster contest, and Laura Sánchez Vico, a professional costume designer in film and entertainment, with experience as a pattern maker and dressmaker.
Front desk at the entrance
The City Council, following instructions from the Security Plan management, has set up a locker at the entrance to the Fairgrounds, properly marked, for baby strollers, as well as for objects such as motorcycle helmets, umbrellas with needle tips and liquid containers with lids. Excluded are those for baby food. This service will be staffed by security personnel who will ensure that the objects deposited and returned to their owners at the end of the event.