The Festival Campesino returns on 22 August with Los Cantadores and Tamara

On 22 August at 21:30, at Arrecife's parque José Ramírez Cerdá, the thirty-seventh Festival Campesino takes place. It is one of the oldest and most serious gatherings of traditional music and dance on Lanzarote, and it sits inside the programme of the San Ginés festivities. Entry is free.

On stage, the group Los Campesinos shares the night with two guests. The first is the Tenerife band Los Cantadores, one of the clearest musical reference points in the archipelago: since 2008 they have released five records and played more than 700 live concerts across the Canaries. This year they mark eighteen years together with a show that runs through their best-known songs and opens onto new material.

The other voice is Tamara, as soloist.

The opening set is built as a tribute to the people who shaped the island's artistic and cultural imagination: not just a concert, but a walk through Lanzarote's own memory, made out of popular song.

The parque José Ramírez Cerdá is the one everyone in town still calls the Parque Viejo, by the sea. It is the same place that hosts the other big San Ginés events, so it is worth arriving early: free and outdoors means it fills up.