2009 Viña del Mar International Song Festival

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

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.

International

 * Winner: Argentina — Victor Heredia — "Ayer te ví"
 * Awards: "Golden Lyre"

Folk

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

International

 * Juanita Parra
 * Paolo Meneguzzi
 * Catherine Fulop
 * Martín Cárcamo
 * Fernando Ubiergo
 * Bastián Bodenhöfer
 * Leonardo Farkas

Folk

 * Rafael Zamarripa
 * Katherine Salosny
 * Fernanda Hansen
 * Piero
 * Sergio Campos

Queen of the Festival

 * Winner: Catherine Fulop

Ugly King

 * Winner: Leo Rey

International Coverage

 * 🇺🇸 A&E Latin America
 * 🇨🇴 CMI Televisión
 * 🇧🇴 ATB Red Nacional
 * 🇩🇴 Telesistema Dominicano
 * 🇳🇮 Televicentro Nicaragua
 * 🇲🇽 Televisa
 * 🇭🇳 Televicentro Honduras
 * 🇸🇻 Canal 2
 * 🇦🇷 Telefé
 * 🇵🇦 Canal 11 SERTV
 * 🇨🇦 Tlñ
 * 🇨🇷 Repretel
 * 🇬🇹 Canal 13 Guatemala
 * 🇵🇾 TV Cerro Corá