Udaleku, the annual Basque culture camp for kids ages 10 – 16, started in Chino, Calif. Monday, June 29 with classes of txistu, Basque folk dance and rounds of the card game mus. The youths also practiced some pilota (handball) at Xavier Aphessetche’s local trinketa. The campers, which number almost 100, have come from Basque communities all over the west, [...]

Anita Caminondo (Recatune) was born on July 17, 1963, the 1st child of 3 children born to Pierre and Mercedes Recatune. She went home to Heaven on June 18, 2009 and will be reunited with her father, Pierre.

Memorial services will be held on Friday, July 3, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. at RiverLakes Community Church, 4301 Calloway Drive, to honor the life of Joseph Paul Eribarne, who passed away Saturday, June 27, 2009, following a stroke on June 12. Joe was born in Bakersfield, the only and dearly loved child of his mother, Marguerite Eribarne and father, Joe [...]

By Nancy Zubiri Four professional handball players from the Basque Country talk about their visit to Bakersfield to play at the Kern County Basque Festival.

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The Makila Two coats of arms are carved on the baton. On the upper part, there is a sting of threaded wrought iron which can be seen when unscrewing the handle; below, a genuine club which balances the makila for walking. The brass, nickel-silver or silver collars are cut alongside the diameter of the wood, then brazed and embossed. The [...]

Writer Pierre Igoa will never forget that Sunday afternoon at the handball court at the Noriega Hotel.

HISTORY French Military Bands Led to Start of Basque Klikas To understand the origins of the Basque klika, one must know the history of French military music. The Origins of Military Music The association of music and war is a phenomenon that has experience throughout history. Hebrews and Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Gauls, all used trumpets, flutes, harps, [...]

How and when did Basque dancing get organized in Bakersfield? See what Jeannette Arrayet had to say. In the early 1950s, Jean and Rose Erasserret gathered a group of Basques together to dance the old country traditional dances. Rose was determined to pass along the Basque tradition of singing, dancing and music through their children. Anyone who liked dance would [...]