Popular Basque rock group Berri Txarrak hosts a party in Venice, Calif. where they holed up to produce an album.

Berri Txarrak, the popular rock group from the Basque Country, held a listening party at the Venice Beach home of well-known music producer Ross Robinson, where the group has been recording its soon-to-be-released seventh album. Robinson, who earned fame producing music for alternative rock groups such as Korn and Limp Bizkit, is completing the final mixes on the group’s songs, [...]

Pilota has been a key part of the Basque cultural fabric in the United States.

The big Jaialdi festival in Boise last month was a showcase for several new Basque cultural efforts, including a group of dancers from California.

By John Ysursa One of the most recognizable male Basque dances, which has become popular this summer at Basque-American festivals, is the “banakoa” from the region of Durango in Bizkaia.

The capacity crowd at Boise’s historic Anduiza Fronton was treated to a tight, back-and-forth struggle between squads from San Francisco and Boise during the final match of the 35th-annual pilota championships sponsored by the North American Basque Organizations, or NABO. The lead changed hands several times in the exciting paleta goma contest, which was held Friday evening July 30 during [...]

Dancing the Banakoa from Euskal Kazeta Basque News on Vimeo.

The hometown Oinkari Dancers performed to an enthusiastic crowd during the recent Jaialdi 2010 international Basque festival at Boise’s Expo Idaho fairgrounds. The group, which usually performs dances from the Basque province of Bizkaia, changed their routine for the festival and danced several numbers from the province of Nafarroa. The Oinkari Dancers are celebrating their 50th anniversary year and held [...]

Jaialdi 2010 Sports Night from Euskal Kazeta Basque News on Vimeo.

The Oinkari dancers have perhaps done more than any Basque-American group to promote Basque culture in the United States.