While many were waiting for it, many others did not want this day to come. The grand finale of the Official Contest of Carnival Groups (COAC) de Cádiz is a two-sided coin: on the one hand there is that of nerves, desire, illusion and emotion; on the other, that of grief. The COAC is over! An entire institution of the Cadiz Carnival that It has been celebrated for nearly two centuries and that for several weeks he has painted the city’s Teatro Gran Falla with light and color (with a lot of humor as a soundtrack).

After more than two weeks of preliminary phases, six days of quarterfinals and three of semifinals, this week the names of the 13 groups that go to the grand final, four per modality except in the case of the quartets, where only one passes. Among these, which are only a small part of the more than a hundred groups that participated in the initial qualifying phase, is also the cake chirigotain which the journalist and presenter on laSexta José Yélamo participates, who is also one of the favorites of the year. This friday february 17 Starting at 8:30 p.m., the Great Falla is once again the protagonist, by the hand of the following comparsas, chirigotas and choirs, in addition to the quartet that has managed to reach the last phase:

COAC 2023: order of performance of the grand final

  • 20:30 – ‘Recuerdo’: an anthology by Enrique Villegas. The 2023 COAC final is dedicated to this musician, author and comparsista of the Carnival of Cádizwho died in 2015. 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of his birth and Cádiz, which declared him Foster son in 2004 (he was born in the Huelva town of Ayamonte). Villegas was also one of the pioneers in taking the Carnival of Cádiz outside the Andalusian city.
  • 21:00 – Tomorrow (choir)
  • 21:45 – Let’s listen (street joke)
  • 22:30 – The slaves (comparda)
  • 23:15 – El Pópulo gladiator workshop school (quartet)
  • 00:00 – The voice (chorus)
  • 00:45 – It all happens to me, the misfortunes (chirigota)
  • 01:30 – The invisible city (comparda)
  • 15 MINUTE BREAK
  • 02:30 – The Blacks (choir)
  • 03:15 – The viñanos (chirigota)
  • 04:00 – Cádiz of my soul (comparsa)
  • 04:45 – Los Martínez (choir)
  • 05:30 – My soul (chirigota)
  • 06:15 – The spell of Cádiz (comparsa)