The Basque soccer team Athletic Bilbao is having a superb season. The team, which signs only Basque Country players, won the Supercopa de España against Barcelona Jan. 17. Athletic is also heading to two finals in the Copa del Rey (The King's Cup). The first is on Saturday April 3, against Donosti's...

Jaialdi, the mega-Basque festival celebrated every five years in Boise, Idaho, was supposed to take place July 28 to Aug. 2, 2020. In April 2020, the festival organizers announced the postponement of the event to July 2021 because of Covid restrictions. Then, in February 2021, they postponed the event...

It’s txotx season in the Basque Country, when the cider houses open their barrels to the public and start selling their cider or sagardoa. Typically it starts on January 20, the day of the Tamborrada celebration in Donostia. But this year, because of COVID restrictions, many cider houses delayed their...

Xabier Berrueta remembers where he was when he got his brother’s text last October. He was in the town of Oloron-Sainte-Marie, France, watching the World Cup championship of Trinquet. His brother Aitor told him the board of the Basque Cultural Center (BCC) in South San Francisco had given approval...

“Basques in California’ is a new exhibit at the Basque Museum in Boise, Idaho that highlights the contribution of Basques to the history of the Golden State. The exhibit opened July 14. The exhibit will likely continue through 2022. The Basque Museum’s exhibit initially opened last October,...

The original plan was modest: Bring at least eight dancers from California to the Basque Country to perform for the festival of the Baztan Valley – Baztandarren Biltzarra. But what transpired was far more successful than anyone could have imagined. Ultimately, 42 dancers from five different California...