2009 Viña del Mar International Song Festival

Award

2009 Viña del Mar International Song Festival

Date	February 23, 2009 - February 28, 2009
Location	Quinta Vergara, Viña del Mar, Chile
Hosted by	Soledad Onetto, Felipe Camiroaga
Television/radio coverage
Network	Canal 13, TVN

The 2009 Viña del Mar International Song Festival was held from Monday 23 February until Saturday 28 February. This festival was the number 50, and had a special award for the 50 years, the "Gold Song", elected between the winner songs from 2001 to 2008 versions of Festival. Finally, "Gold song" in the folk contest was "Cuecas Al Sol" (2005 winner), and in the international contest was "Ayer te vi" (2001 winner).

The television channels from the festival this year is "Canal 13" and "TVN", and was held in Viña del Mar, Chile

Hosts

Soledad Onetto^[1]
Felipe Camiroaga

Acts

Monday 23

Artist	Awards
Joan Manuel Serrat^[2]	"Silver Torch"
Contest Folk	—
Camila	"Silver Torch", "Golden Torch" & "Silver Seagull"
Contest International	—
La Noche	"Silver Torch", "Golden Torch" & "Silver Seagull"

Tuesday 24

Artist	Awards
Verónica Villarroel	"Silver Torch", "Golden Torch" & "Silver Seagull"
Juanes	"Silver Torch", "Golden Torch" & "Silver Seagull"
Contest Folk	—
Fernando Ubiergo	"Silver Torch", "Golden Torch" & "Silver Seagull"
Contest International	—
KC and the Sunshine Band	"Silver Torch", "Golden Torch" & "Silver Seagull"

Wednesday 25

Artist	Awards
Carlos Santana	"Silver Torch", "Golden Torch" & "Silver Seagull"
Contest Folk	—
Leonardo Farkas	"Silver Torch"
Contest International	—
Dinamita Show	"Silver Torch", "Golden Torch" & "Silver Seagull"
Roger Hodgson	"Silver Torch", "Golden Torch" & "Silver Seagull"

Thursday 26

Artist	Awards
Folkloric Ballet	—
Simply Red	"Silver Torch", "Golden Torch" & "Silver Seagull"
Contest Folk	—
Paolo Meneguzzi	—
Contest International	—
Manpoval	—
R.K.M & Ken-Y	"Silver Torch", "Golden Torch" & "Silver Seagull"

Friday 27

Artist	Awards
Luis Fonsi	"Silver Torch", "Golden Torch" & "Silver Seagull"
Folk Competition Final	—
International Competition Semifinal	—
Daddy Yankee	"Silver Torch", "Golden Torch" & "Silver Seagull"

Saturday 28

Artist	Awards
Natalino	"Silver Torch" & "Golden Torch"
Marc Anthony	"Silver Torch", "Golden Torch" & "Silver Seagull"

Appearances

Antonio Vodanovic did a special appearance at the opening of the festival to say goodbye to the audience, taking the "Silver Torch", after leaving the animation of the festival in 2004.^[3]
Verónica Villarroel appeared at the opening of the second day as a surprise for the 50 years of the festival.^[4]
On the third night, the Chilean businessman Leonardo Farkas did a surprise appearance, which lasted 15 minutes approximately.^[5]

Trivia

The singer of KC and the Sunshine Band, Harry Wayne Casey, suffered a drop in the presentation of the band.^[6]
The Italian-Swiss singer Paolo Meneguzzi suffered failures of sound at the start of his presentation after to the annoyance of the public by the end of the presentation of Simply Red.^[7]

Gold Song

International

Country	Artist	Song	Year
Argentina	Víctor Heredia	"Ayer Te Vi"	2001
Argentina	Ricardo Pald & Valeria Lynch	"Soy Tu Angel"	2002
Spain	Chema Puron	"Este Amor Es Tuyo"	2003
Chile	Alexis Venegas	"Tus Ojos"	2004
Perú	Jessica Sarango	"Mi Alma Entre Tus Manos"	2005
Costa Rica	Humberto Vargas	"Dilo De Una Vez"	2006
Spain	Pedro Fernández	"Cuando Quieras Volver"	2007
Italy	Doménico Protino	"La Guerra De Los 30 Años"	2008

Winner: Argentina — Victor Heredia — "Ayer te ví"^[8]
Awards: "Golden Lyre"

Folk

Country	Artist	Song	Year
Chile	Danny Rodríguez	"Whipala"	2001
Perú	Carlos Rincón	"Juramento"	2002
Argentina	Fernando Barrientos	"Pintadita"	2003
Argentina	Víctor Heredia	"Bailando Con Tu Sombra"	2004
Chile	Isabel Parra	"Cueca Al Sol"	2005
Chile	Elizabeth Morris	"Canción De Agua y Viento"	2006
Colombia	Leonardo Gómez & Diana Hernández	"Me Duele El Alma"	2007
Perú	Damaris Mallma	"Tusuy Kusum"	2008

Winner: Chile — Camila Méndez & Isabel Parra — "Cuecas Al Sol"^[9]
Awards: "Golden Lyre" (Contest Folk), "Silver Seagull" (Best Interpreted)

Jury

International

Folk

Rafael Zamarripa
Katherine Salosny
Fernanda Hansen
Piero
Sergio Campos

Queen of the Festival

Catherine Fulop (Jury)^[11]	181 votes
Nicole Pérez (as Jennifer's)	15 votes
Lucila Vit	40 votes
Lucía Pérez (Contest International)	29 votes

Winner: Catherine Fulop^[12]

Ugly King

Leonardo Farkas (Jury)^[13]

Paolo Meneguzzi (Jury)

Leo Rey (Singer of "La Noche")

Augusto Schuster (Singer of "Amango")

Winner: Leo Rey^[14]

International Coverage

A&E Latin America
CMI Televisión
ATB Red Nacional^[15]
Telesistema Dominicano
Televicentro Nicaragua
Televisa
Televicentro Honduras
Canal 2
Telefé
Canal 11 SERTV
Tlñ
Repretel
Canal 13 Guatemala
TV Cerro Corá

References

^ [1] Archived 2009-02-27 at the Wayback Machine - Animators
^ [2] Archived 2009-02-25 at the Wayback Machine - Performers
^ [3] Archived 2009-02-27 at the Wayback Machine - Antonio Vodanovic special appearance
^ [4] Archived 2009-02-28 at the Wayback Machine - Verónica Villarroel special appearance
^ [5] Archived 2009-03-01 at the Wayback Machine - Leonardo Farkas special appearance
^ [6] Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine - Harry Wayne Casey fall down
^ [7] Archived 2009-03-03 at the Wayback Machine - Paolo Meneguzzi failures of sound
^ [8] Archived 2009-02-18 at the Wayback Machine - Gold Song
^ [9] Archived 2009-03-03 at the Wayback Machine - 2009 Song Folk Winner
^ [10] Archived 2009-02-25 at the Wayback Machine - Jury
^ [11] - Queen of the Festival
^ [12] Archived 2009-03-01 at the Wayback Machine - 2009 Queen of the Festival Winner
^ [13] Archived 2009-02-28 at the Wayback Machine - Ugly King of the Festival
^ [14] Archived 2009-03-03 at the Wayback Machine - 2009 Ugly King Winner
^ "Programación ATB". Archived from the original on 2009-03-01. Retrieved 2009-02-28.