In recent years the boom experienced by the traditional folk culture, not only in Asturias but throughout all Spanish state, allow for a flowering of cultural movements (festivals, theater, music, etc..) supported by society. These spontaneous movements could not be developed unless they were supported by public and private institutions for the promotion of popular culture and serving to promote local, regional and national economic. This is the purpose of Festival de Bandes de Gaites Villa de Candás.

Asturias is geographically and historically in a very specific cultural area typified by a concept of geo-economic root: the Atlantic Arc. This arc covers those European countries which have the connecting link the Atlantic Ocean, ranging from Portugal to Scotland. Asturias, in that environment, plays a natural role, with Galicia and Portugal, southern border cultural territory well defined, and that not only correspond to linguistic criteria (in this territory are not only areas where languages are preserved. Celtic roots as Britain, Ireland or Scotland, but are also countries with languages of Latin origin as the Asturian and Galician), but also relates to cultures amply matched: traditions, customs, legends, music, types, etc..