The Elko Basque Club was the first Basque club to decide to hold its festival this summer. The National Basque Festival, usually a three-day event in Elko on Fourth of July weekend, will only be a two-day festival this year, and most of the festival events will be held at the Elko Basque clubhouse. Last...

If you are Basque or have recently learned you have some Basque blood, you might be curious to learn more about these ancient people. While some of the best books in English have already been reviewed in our article "An Artist’s Favorite Basque Books," here are some additional books you might want...

A wonderful short 20-minute film “The Eighth Province” about Bakersfield’s Basque community and the sheep industry can currently be viewed for free online through the Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival until the end of April. The film is the work of Kyle Baker, a young filmmaker from...

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 in 2020. In April 2020, the festival organizers postponed the event to July 2021 because of Covid restrictions. Then, in mid-January 2021, they announced the postponement of the event to 2022. The...

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...