After several weeks in a row of music, costumes and groups, the Carnival Groups Contestwhich is celebrated in Gran Teatro Falla de Cádiz will be put on pause for a couple of days after concluding the quarterfinal stage this Thursday. The semi-final phase begins on February 4 after the jury issued its verdict on Thursday night and decided the groups that continue in search of the pass to reach the Grand Finale on February 9.

In total they are seven choirs 10 chirigotas 10 troupes and three quartets those who have achieved the minimum score from the jury to continue to the next phase of the contest. Are 30 groups They will sing again on the boards of the Cádiz coliseum spread across four sessions. In this sense, 1 choir, nine chirigotas and 10 comparsas have been left out, while the three quartets from the quarterfinals will continue in the competition.

The chorus ‘The Guild’ will be in charge of opening the curtain of the rooms in a first session in which the troupe will also be present ‘The Black Sheep’ by Antonio Martínez Areswinner of two consecutive first prizes in 2022 and 2023 in the Official Cádiz Carnival Group Competition, the Gago quartet or Luis Rivero’s choir. Distinguished by their careers in the party, they will take the stage again to defend their place in the final in a theater that will have full seats after the tickets sold out in minutes.

It will be the official jury of the contest who will appear again on stage on February 7th and, after a phrase that has become the history of the Cádiz Carnival such as “in the city of Cádiz, it is x hours…”, will dictate those who pass the new cut to sing in the grand final that will be will take place in the run-up to the big party.

These are the groups that go to the COAC finals

Choirs

  • ‘The Guild’
  • ‘The Paradise’
  • ‘The Fireflies’
  • ‘The party of fools’
  • ‘The illuminated’
  • ‘The piqué trunk’
  • ‘Murder on the Cádiz Express’

Quartets

  • ‘Punk and circus’
  • ‘Everyone fits in my booth’
  • ‘The coconuts of Cádiz’

Chirigotas

  • ‘We won’t even feel the hunger’
  • ‘The Grinch of Cai’
  • ‘I have told you 1,748,564 times that I am not exaggerating’
  • ‘Isabelita’s Child 2’
  • ‘The invisible street’
  • ‘I eat your face’
  • ‘The last one and we leave’
  • ‘The classic chirigota’
  • ‘The placid Sundays’
  • ‘The shacks’

Comparsas

  • ‘The 3×4 is back’
  • ‘The black sheep’
  • ‘The resbalaera, a lifelong troupe’
  • ‘The joy of Cádiz’
  • ‘Sacrifice them’
  • ‘The jeweler’
  • ‘The hang’
  • ‘Where we were happy’
  • ‘And we keep singing’
  • ‘The Chirigotera’