At present, the fiestas are related more or less to the old culture. Each town celebrates an armual fiesta to the Saint. Each temple was built by the people economic effort.

The popular fiestas constitute one of the scarce festival events in the island. Participation, spontaneity, generosity, and the simplicity of elements are their main components. New clothes are bought, the facades are whitewashed. People decorate the doors, the squares are decked out with bouquets and flags. Heads are killed, verbenas are mounted. They make sweets, common foods, blazes, and people go to the beach to enjoy themselves. They are suitable dates so that the parrandas (sprees) interpret the most traditional airs in our folklore (isas. folías. seguidillas or malagueñas).

The most important popular fiestas. with religious character, are devoted to the patron of Lanzarote: Saint Marcial, in Femés (Yaiza) on July 7 . It is the first religious image that was brought to the island; and the Virgin of Los Dolores or Los Volcanes in Mancha Blanca (Tinajo), on September 15, and as vocation sign when savmg the population from the volcanic catastrophe of 1730-36.

As we have said before, these fiestas are related intimately with the music and the traditional dances. The folklore of nowadays supposes the search and the adaptation, on the part of studious in the topic, previous and later old songs to the conquest.

Of the aboriginal music very little is known. Instruments were very poor: rustic elements of percussion using the feet and hands, sound necklaces of marine snails beads and limpets shells (limpet tablespoons). Starting from the conquest new instruments were incorporated: tambourines, triangles, castanets, raspadores de caña (cane raspers), etc. And later on: guitars, mandolins, lutes, and timples . The timple is the most representative instrument in the folklore canary musical. Also called, camellito (small camel), and it is an adaptation ofthe Iberian guitar, with lengthened narrow body and convexed underneath. The number of strings and the tuning can vary according to the island. Lastly, the forito or accordion is the instrument whose presence is considered indispensable.