2009 Viña del Mar International Song Festival
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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
Felipe Camiroaga
Acts
Monday 23
Tuesday 24
Wednesday 25
Thursday 26
Friday 27
Saturday 28
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.
Verónica Villarroel appeared at the opening of the second day as a surprise for the 50 years of the festival.
On the third night, the Chilean businessman Leonardo Farkas did a surprise appearance, which lasted 15 minutes approximately.
Trivia
The singer of KC and the Sunshine Band, Harry Wayne Casey, suffered a drop in the presentation of the band.
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.
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