A characteristic celebration of the patron saint's day festivities of the city of San Sebastian, which since relatively recent times has also been held in other towns in the province such as Azpeitia, Eibar, Pasajes, Rentería, Tolosa, Zarautz, Arrasate-Mondragón, Mutriku, etc. The different tamborradas (drummers' parades) start on 20 January, the day of San Sebastian, and consist of a parade of a series of characters divided into companies of drummers and barrels, the former dressed in costumes from the War of Independence (1808-1813) and the latter wearing the characteristic cook's costume. Both groups are joined by the ‘aguadoras’, the name given to the women who take part in the fiesta dressed in the customary costume of 19th century women from San Sebastian. Each tamborrada has its own music band. The adult tamborradas, of which there are more than a hundred, bring together an average of 100 and 150 participants, and are organised by different popular, gastronomic, cultural, recreational, social and other societies. More than fifty companies representing the city's schools take part in the children's tamborrada, each made up of 90 and 125 children. During the twenty-four hours that the festival lasts, and in all the scheduled events, only the music that the maestro Raimundo Sarriegui wrote for it in the last third of the 19th century is performed, the main titles being Tatiago, Diana, Iriyarena, Polka, Retreta and the March of San Sebastián, composed in 1861.