Women and Pelota in BoiseThis weekend in Boise will be full of Basque festivities, as the annual San Inazio Festival gets underway. Among the weekend’s activities are men and women pilota competitions in the Boise fronton in the ground floor of Anduiza’s old boardinghouse. Basque women keep up their culture in Boise by playing pala at the fronton. Sadie Babits [...]

The Basque Museum is hosting its annual spring benefit dinner Saturday, April 28, and former Basque football star John Huarte is the featured guest. Huarte won the Heisman Trophy in 1964. After growing up in Southern California, Huarte played college football at the University of Notre Dame as a quarterback. He graduated from Notre Dame with a Bachelor’s degree in [...]

Idaho and the Basque government have decided to form an economic partnership under an agreement that was made official on Monday. The Basque government will open an economic development office in downtown Boise that will be staffed by a representative of the Basque government, according to a report in the Idaho Statesman. The agreement was signed by Idaho Lt. Gov. [...]

Patty Miller, director of Boise’s Basque Museum and Cultural Center, is among several people and institutions whose accomplishments will be honored by the Idaho State Historical Society. Miller is a pillar in Idaho’s Basque community. She and six others will receive the society’s 13th-annual “Esto Perpetua Award.” The Basque Museum and two other organizations will also be honored by the [...]

Añorga, Donostia, Gipuzkoa The Oinkari Dancers of Boise strengthened the ties between the U.S. Basque community and the Basque Country as they finished a dance tour of several towns in Euskal Herria yesterday. The dancers ended their visit with a performance at the Añorgako Festak, the annual festival of the Añorga neighborhood of Donostia in Gipuzkoa. Dancing with the Oinkaris [...]

Korrika is a running event held every other year in the Basque Country since 1980 in support of the Basque language Euskera. It is a community run in which thousands of people join in, sometimes up to 600,000. This year, four U.S. Basque communities, San Francisco, New York City and Boise and Mountain Home, Idaho will be joining the Basque [...]

The Basque Block is Boise’s epicenter of Basque culture. This was especially true during the huge Jaialdi international Basque festival held in late July and early August 2010. Amuma Says No — Boise’s homegrown band — kept the block rocking with Basque dance music. The group is a musical ambassador of Basque culture and has played across the United States. [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]