Cádiz continues to party. Although in reality, Cádiz never ceases to be. While the rest of Spain preparing for Carnival, the city of Cádiz already has it half assembled. About. at least the Grand Theater Fallawhich has been celebrating the Official Contest of Carnival Groups (COAC) for almost a week, the contest from which the best chirigotas, the best comparsas, the best choirs and the best quartets of the year come out.
Over the course of two weeks, the COAC preliminary phase, in which the 131 groups show their repertoire, humor to the rhythm of pasodobles and cuplés, and from which the groups will go to the next phase, the quarterfinals. This Thursday, January 26, there are a total of seven participating, four comparsas, two chirigotas and a single choir. The truth is that it will be difficult to see quartets in the phase, since only four participate.
COAC 2023: order of performance today, Thursday
The preliminary phase extends until next February 4, when it comes to an end. It will be then when the points are added and it is known who goes to the next phase. The next day, on January 5, there will be a break for the adults, to be able to celebrate the children’s final of the contest, and on February 6 the quarterfinal stage
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Can you watch the COAC preliminaries live?
effectively all can be followed live and each of the preliminary sessions of the COAC; Of course, you will have to stay up all night because they are not short. Between seven and eight groups participate in each of the sessions, each performing for half an hour, which adds up to a total of between three and a half and four hours. To this time must be added, of course, the breaks for assembly and disassembly between performances, which can take the entire session to between four and five hours.
The bad luck is that They cannot be seen in the theater. Not because it is prohibited or banned, but because the tickets sold out the first day they went on sale, all the tickets for each of the preliminary phases. And although those of the following phases have yet to come out, the same is expected to happen. However, Onda Cádiz Carnaval broadcasts the preliminary sessions openly and live on its YouTube channel.
Source: Lasexta
