The Kern County Basque Club hosted its successful annual festival this past weekend,

Luhartz at Kern County Basque Festival 2010 from Euskal Kazeta Basque News on Vimeo.

The origins of Basques in Kern County and the history of Basque whalers in North America will be discussed during the 2010 Basque Studies Symposium on Friday May 28 at Cal-State Bakersfield. The event is scheduled to feature researchers Steve Bass and George Ansolabehere, as well as novelist Christine Echeverria Bender. Bass and Ansolabehere will be discussing their project on [...]

Kepa Junkera Live at Chino Basque Club from Euskal Kazeta Basque News on Vimeo.

Jaialdi 2010 will be a hotbed of pelota activity when the huge international Basque festival kicks off in Boise in late July.

Euskal Kazeta is seeking part-time sales managers to handle the website’s advertising accounts and seek additional ads. This is a great opportunity for an enterprising person who knows the U.S. Basque community. Advertising sales managers would work from home. Ideally they would live in an area with a large Basque community like San Francisco, Bakersfield, Reno, Elko or Boise. An [...]

The Basque language has just been added to Google Translate, the company announced. The announcement was made May 13 in the official Google Blog. The blog post noted that Basque had been added in alpha status, which means the translations may be less fluent than those of other languages. As with its other languages, Google Translate invites people to contribute [...]

As he continues to innovate with his musical style, renowned Basque accordionist Kepa Junkera will be playing at Basque clubs in Boise and Chino this month. Video: Kepa Junkera in Chino from Euskal Kazeta on Vimeo. The world music and Basque folk music accordionist – known in Basque as a trikitilari because of the special diatonic button accordion he plays [...]

Championship Basque pelota players will be returning to California later this month to play exhibition games in Bakersfield and South San Francisco. The four athletes — Fernando Goñi, AKA Goñi III; Pedro Eulate; Alberto Ongay and Jon Apezetxea — will battle it out on the handball courts during festival events at the Kern County Basque Club and the Basque Cultural [...]

They prepared for rain at the Fresno Basque Club festival. But in the end, the weather was great — and so was the party.