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20 February 2024

Carnival burns the Sardine and announces an Olympic...

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 20 February 2024. The Sardine burned in the waters of Las Canteras to bring Carnival 2024 to a close. The Carnivals...

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12 February 2024

A Drag Queen apotheosis at the end of “Carnivals of...

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Monday 12 February, 2024 . If there is a hallmark which defines modern Carnival in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, that...

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05 February 2024

Carnival has a date with its Queen in La Isleta

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Monday, 5 February, 2024 . It was in March 1976, so long ago now. At that time, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, like the...

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29 January 2024

Murga and comparsa groups take over the Carnival

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 29 January 2024. Murgas and comparsas embody the essence of people’s creative expression in the Carnival of Las Palmas...

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15th to 18th Centuries

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival is one of the oldest, most deeply rooted and unique festivals of the Canary Islands capital. For over five centuries the city has celebrated with masquerading, tomfoolery... and flesh.

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Afilarmónica Los Serenquenquenes

Founded in:
1981
President:
Airán Díaz Bordón
Director:
Javier Santana Armas
Number of members:
83
City:
Agüimes

Founded by a group of friends from the town of Agüimes in 1982, it is the group with most awards in the history of the Carnival. Its work has been recognised all over the Canary Islands Archipelago. Every time the Serenquenquenes win a prize at the capital's Carnival, they dedicate it to Don Antonio Morales, their mayor, who since 2015 is also the president of the Gran Canaria Island Council.

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Carnival

First Prize for Performance in 1991, 1992, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2019.

First Prize for Costume in 1991, 1992, 1993, 2002, 2004 and 2006.

Tomás Pérez Prize for Best Lyrics in 1997, 1999, 2002, 2004, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2017.

Criticón Prize in 2008, Prize for best director in 2017.

2017 celebrated the return of the mythical members of Los Serenquenquenes to the final, a phase they had missed in 2016.