The Jaialdi celebration starts today at the Basque Center in Downtown Boise. Food, drink and strolling musicians will take over "the Basque Block." We have an in-studio performance to give you a sneak ...

After two years of canceled celebrations, Boise’s Basque Block will come alive this weekend with the sights, sounds and smells of northern Spain. Txantxangorriak musicians will fill the air with the ...

Oinkari Basque dancers in the 2009 Trailing of the Sheep Festival This week’s reader photo seemed to all-too-perfectly match the theme of the latest issue of High Country News, which focuses on ...

At the 2016 Folklife Festival, the Oinkari Basque Dancers energetically twirled, jumped, and high-kicked across the Musika eta Dantza Etxea and Frontoia. But this wasn’t their first time gracing the ...

Oinkari Basque Dancers "Txotx" in action at last year's Oinkari Cider House Fundraiser. Here’s a fun word: txotx. It sounds like chooch, and one person will yell it after every course of food at the ...

BOISE, Idaho — Boise has a vibrant and large Basque population, with the highest concentration of Basque people living in the city outside of the Basque Country. People came to Boise from the Basque ...

The Great Basin Basque Dancers are composed of two groups: the Elko Arinak and Ruby Mountain Ardi Baltza Basque Dancers who have come together to perform at the Folklife Festival. The group is ...

On New Year’s Eve 1980, Jeanette Idiart Blanco and Anita Izoco came up with the idea that the Basque community needed a social outlet to get together to enjoy each other’s company. By March 1981, ...

Every year during the last weekend in July, Idahoans turn off their country music and set aside their cowboy hats to take part in a celebration that is old and European but nonetheless down home to ...

Checked Out!, the official podcast of the University Libraries, is back with a new episode focusing on the Jon Bilbao Basque Library located on the third floor of the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center.