The Santo Domingo convent of Teguise was the setting chosen by the management of the Los Cumbacheros de Tahiche comparsa to present the design and fantasy that it will wear this year 2024.
The gala was presented by Carmen Nieves Pérez and with an audience eager for a party that participated throughout the development singing and applauding each of the performances that were making an appearance on stage. The first chords were played by the 55 members of the murga Los Simplones from the Valterra neighborhood, and directed by Enrique Martín. The 55 very powerful and tuned voices revolutionized the public, who very enthusiastically sang and applauded them until the end of their performance.
On such a special night, the representation with the most history in the carnival of Lanzarote and the Canary Islands, Los Diabletes de Teguise, could not miss the event. With the cry of "Elegua", wearing their traditional clothing with the bag tied to a stick and their characteristic mask, they made their entrance through the corridors to the stage.
The gala continued to unfold with great animation, giving way to the batucada of the Los Cumbacheros comparsa with its powerful and sonorous percussion chords, which gave way to the duo 'Portabandeiras Carnavaleros de Corazón' from the island of Tenerife. Unique in this carnival genre, making choreographies with their representative flags, giving way to the members of the Los Cumbacheros dance corps who wore some of the fantasies that they have taken on stages and parades since their beginnings back in 2012.
Amidst so much music, rhythm and color, time stopped for a few minutes to surprise a man who for 39 years has been characterized as the mythical Charlot, always willing to collaborate wherever he is called. Sitting in the front row next to the mayor of the Teguise City Council, Olivia Duque, and the Councilor for Culture and Festivities, Francisco Javier Díaz, and oblivious to everything, was Juan Medina Guzmán, the 'Charlot de Lanzarote'. When the presenter Carmen Nieves invited him to go on stage, thinking that he was going to take a few strolls around the stage, he was greatly surprised because Los Cumbacheros distinguished him with their highest award, the 'Silver Mask'. Sergio Níz Callero, as president of Los Cumbacheros, presented it to him while the audience stood up and applauded Juan Medina Guzman, who was very excited and could not say a word and surely last night it would be very difficult for him to sleep.
The gala reached its final point with the staging of the new fantasy and design for these carnivals where, once again, the management of Los Cumbacheros placed all their trust in the Tenerife designer Borja Abreu, present at the event, titling his fantasy 'Dare to Dream', a spectacular design with a very studied combination of colors, achieving maximum attraction from the public in each of its movements.
Finally, Sergio Niz Callero, president of Los Cumbacheros and director of the gala, addressed the public thanking them for their presence, without forgetting the great institutional support of the Teguise City Council and the collaboration of the participating groups and commercial firms.
