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
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]
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
