You don’t need to speak Euskera to enjoy the unique Basque culture during an upcoming festival in Boise, Idaho. That said, there will be plenty of people speaking the mother tongue at Jaialdi, a ...

HOMEDALE — The 13th annual Txoko Ona Basque Dance is set for Saturday at a new location, the Badiola Arena, located on Highway 95. The event features colorful and talented dancers performing ...

For the first time in over a decade, thousands of people from around the world will gather in Boise’s Basque Block to celebrate Jaialdi. The six-day festival honoring Basque culture through food, ...

CALDWELL — Celebrate the Basque culture with authentic Basque food, dancers, silent and live auctions Saturday at the 46th annual Caldwell Basque Dinner and Dance. The event will feature dinner at 6 p ...

Not many history lessons include 14 lambs for one meal and a wine-drinking contest. Then again, not many cultures are quite like that of the Basques. With large immigration waves from Spain’s Basque ...

It’s Jaialdi! If you’re not sure what that means, then hang on to your red beret. Every five years, thousands of Basques and Basque Americans — and nearly as many non-Basques — descend on Boise to ...

Growing up in my household meant constantly hearing live music. My father, who fell in love with the fiddle in college, had developed an interest in Irish music. When I was six years old, I took a ...

AMERICA'S Wild West has long been home to Indians, Hispanics and African Americans, but rarely have they felt the need to play up their ethnic ancestries. Now, though, that may all be changing. The ...

Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The ...

BOISE – The Basque language was common on the downtown streets of Idaho’s capital when Florencio “Pancho” Aldape arrived in 1935 following a 13-day journey from northern Spain, first by ship across ...

Their numbers may be small, but Basques and their descendants have left an indelible mark on Nevada — so much so that the theme of the 34th National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko is “Basques & ...