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From Kansas City: the importance of the Basque presence in Nevada...

Niños en un Festival Vasco de nevada. The Daily Free Press via AP Ross Andreson
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Journalist Heidi Knapp Rinella at the Las Vegas Review-Journal has just published an article about the Basque presence...

A Basque lullaby heard at the Chicago Planetarium

Amaia Gabantxo interviniendo en el Planetarium de Chicago
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Amaia Gabantxo never ceases to pleasantly surprise us.  At this rate, we’re going to have to make up...

Discovering the sights of our country with dance and music as...

Lapurdiarround una de las entregas del proyecto basquecountrying
This article was translated by John R. Bopp In October 2012, coinciding with the first anniversary of the end of ETA violence, in that entry about...

Etxe Nami: A meeting point of Basque and Japanese cultures

Etxe Nami Saint-Jean-de-Luz. Photo Melanie Bordas Aubie
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Eviana Hartman on the Vogue magazine website has written about a place in Saint-Jean-de-Luz that brings together Basque...

From Cambridge: “When I’m in the Basque Country, I’m at home”

Traditional dancing at a Basque festival WIKIPEDIA
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Sofia Weiss, born in Chile to a Swiss-British father and a mother whose last name was Goitiandia, but...

The stories of the Basques engraved in the poplars of the...

This Idaho carving from 1975 lists the name, Jose Maria Eizaguirre, and the hometown, Amoroto, of the carver. Amoroto is located in the Bizkaia province in Basque Country, where about 90 percent of Idaho Basques emigrated from, says John Bieter. BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS AND ARCHIVES
This article was translated by John R. Bopp We’ve spoken before about the arboglyphs on our blog: an extraordinary, and perishable, heritage the Basques who went...

Hilarión Sarrionandia: the Basque who wrote the first grammar of the...

Pedro Hilarión Sarrionandia Linaza
This article was translated by John R. Bopp The land of Rif, where the Riffians live, in modern-day Morocco, is a land of sad memories for...

Igor Yebra is offered the post of director of the National...

El bailarín vasco Igor Yebra (fotografía: Isabel Munoz)
  This article was translated by John R. Bopp Several Uruguayan media outlets have just reported that the Minister of Culture of Uruguay, María Julia Muñoz, has...

An homage and recognition of the Basque contribution to the “cowboy...

Bertsolariak at the National Basque Festival in Elko. Photo by Meg Glaser.
This article was translated by John R. Bopp Upgrade:  List of participants. BASQUE, BASQUE-AMERICAN and OTHER SPECIAL GUESTS At the end of January 2018, the 34th Annual...

More info about the Basque stitch and the Basque knot.  Did...

  This article was translated by John R. Bopp About five years ago, we wrote a blog entry about the Basque stitch and the Basque knot.  We’d...