Now, last week there was a couple of articles in the US media in regards of both the above mentioned Jaialdi which is the biggest festival for the Basque community and which takes place every five years, and the NABO meeting in Rock Springs last weekend.
Here you have them:
Basques celebrate cultural heritage, via Green River Star Online.
The North American Basque Organizations had its fifth cultural festival on July 15-17, in Rock Springs.
The opening ceremonies began with a parade featuring the Zaharrer Segi, Buffalo, the Zazpiak Bat Klika, San Francisco, and students from the San Fermin Ikastola, Pamplona, Spain.
Basque people from all over the world attended this festival. There were delegates from each city with a Basque organization.
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"The Basque people had nothing they could call there own," commented Jonathon Argoitia from Salt Lake City. "My Dad's family lived in the upper floor of the house and they kept the animals on the lower floor.
"The Basque Festival is the opportunity for people with a unique ethnic background to get together for a taste of home.Sharing the old stories of experiences in the wilderness of a strange land and keeping the culture alive. That's what its all about.
Dunak Euskaldunak-we're all Basque today.
Basques in Boise ready to celebrate, via The Olympian.
Starting next week, Aldape and around 35,000 other people, some Basque by birth, some "Basque" for only a few hours, will celebrate the traditions of the ethnic minority at Jaialdi, or "Big Festival." The five-day party, which occurs once every five years, begins July 27 and includes traditional sports and cultural events including folk dancing, historical presentations and religious services for the largely Catholic Basque community.
Much of the world familiar with Basques knows of the group known by its acronym ETA, whose members have killed more than 850 persons and injured hundreds of others since it began attacks aimed at the Spanish government in the early 1960s. The Jaialdi festival doubles as an outreach effort to show that Basque culture runs deeper than just three letters.
Let me copy and modify a line from my Irish friends. Ready?
Kiss me, I'm Basque.
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