The Educational and Social Area Department of the Auditorio de Tenerife launches its 2025–26 season with Coro Canguro (Kangaroo Chorus), a new project of the nonprofit organisation ‘Grandes Oyentes’. The project is an artistic and musical initiative for families and caregivers with newborn infants and toddlers (especially infants who have not yet learned to walk).
Coro Canguro takes place through a growing network of choruses throughout Spain. Using a special methodology created by Grandes Oyentes, families, artists and musicians of different genres are gathered together. Based on the benefits of music, voice, movement and creation, Coro Canguro promotes a healthy environment of growth for the infants and their adults by encouraging creative and entertaining experiences through structured sessions of choir singing, recording sessions, workshops and concerts that put the spotlight on artists and families.
In essence, Coro Canguro is enjoyment, wellbeing and connection: with your baby, with yourself, with other families, with artists and musicians and with music.
What’s involved?
The sessions are to take place in the Sala Multiusos multipurpose hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife. The hall is pram-friendly, features bathrooms and changing rooms located near the entrance and provides enough room to keep prams on hand.
The sessions shall include moments of instrumental music, corporeal dynamics and group vocals, group singing, time for families to mingle and freedom to stand up, walk, move about, breast-feed infants and have lunch, as each family sees fit.
Participating families shall be provided with the musical material of the Coro Canguro methodology for the sessions.
We recommend that families bring their infant carriers or baby slings.
Admission to this project of the Educational and Social Affairs Department is free of charge for participating families, but places are limited.
Where do I sign up?
You can participate by filling in the following application form and sending it to corocanguro@auditoriodetenerife.com.
Coro Canguro is designed for parents, grandparents and caregivers with one or more infants or those who are expecting a new addition to the family.
Therefore, this project is for:
- Families, parents or caregivers with newborn infants or toddlers of up to two years of age.
- Pregnant women and/or their families not expecting birth to take place in the last quarter of 2025.
Although parents who are musicians are welcome, you needn’t be a musician, know how to sing or be musically skilled to take part in Coro Canguro.
Admission is limited to two adults per infant. Families with two infants or with older siblings or with one infant and a pregnancy may attend, with the sole limitation of one adult per infant or child.
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For further information regarding specific circumstances, please contact the staff of Coro Canguro at the Auditorio de Tenerife at: corocanguro@auditoriodetenerife.com.
Calendar
In its first year, Coro Canguro Tenerife events shall include:
- 10 chorus afternoon sessions from late September to early December.
- A final concert with artists and guest musicians.
Session dates:
- September: Friday the 26th
- October: Friday the 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th
- November: Friday the 7th, 14th, 21th and 28th
- December:
- Thursday the 4th: general rehearsal with musicians
- Friday the 5th: final concert