Two female tunas are today one of the protagonists in the XXVII International Tuna Competition Costa Calida second day of competition which takes place tonight at 21:30 at the San Basilio pergola and will feature a visit from the Queen of the Garden and his court.
The first act will be The tuna in Tunina a estudiantina coming from Eindhoven and composed by women.
This Dutch tuna touches typical Spanish estudiantinas instruments like guitar and lute and even dare to sing in Castilian.
The other female tuna participating in the competition tonight is the law of Alicante, formed in 1989 after nine of its founders spend one year as a rookie male tuna.
After getting his scholarship and be recognized now as Tuna Tuna Competition organized the Mare Nostrum.
Apart from these two female estudiantinas also act in competition tonight, Light & Tuna, grouping Lusiada University of Lisbon and Valladolid Law tuna and tuna district of Granada, twinned since last year with the Tuna of Medicine, Murcia, and won the third prize in the last edition.
In the afternoon, the Tuna of Medicine, organizer of the event, will participate with a float in the Parade itself Murcia in Spring.
To coincide with the second day of competition was inaugurated in the morning the II Latin American Congress of Tunas in the Puertas de Castilla, during the first day, will discuss the origin and history of the researchers estudiantinas tunos of Spain, Mexico and Puerto Rico .
Source: Agencias