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The accordion is strengthening the Basque community in Idaho, helping to...

Ansotegui’s band, Amuma Says No, performed at the Idaho Botanical Gardens in August.
Boise State Public Radio (part of the NPR network) has published an article by Arlie Sommer discussing the power of music and dance as integrating...

“Mr. Basque”: the deep commitment of US researcher William A. Douglass...

William A. Douglass and Jon Bilbao
Euskal Kazeta is the main news source for the Basque community in the United States.  It was founded in 2009, and you can check...

Discover the Basque music collected by the North American Basque Organizations

Mikaela Goicoechea recursos musicales Nabasque
The North American Basque Organizations (NABO) was started in 1973 with the goal of joining together all the Basque centers in the United States and...

Why Samuel L. Jackson did not aim his “zoaz popatik hartzera”...

Samuel L Jackson usa el euskera para promover la participación en las elecciones USA
A few hours ago, we published an entry showing a video of US actor Samuel L. Jackson fulfilling a promise to "cuss in 15 languages." He was...

Actor Samuel L. Jackson brings Basque into the US election campaign

Samuel L Jackson usa el euskera para promover la participación en las elecciones USA
An explanation as to why the cusses in this video are not directed at Trump American actor Samuel L. Jackson, along with many other artists,...

Manuel de Ynchausti, the Philippine-born Basque patriot we need to know

Manuel Ynchausti with Lehendakari Agirre at Mr. Ynchausti’s home in White Plains, New York, November 1942. Photo: Ynchausti Foundation Archives.
  Jean-Claude Larronde studied at the Instituto of Political Studies and the School of Law in Bordeaux.  In 1972, the defended his doctoral thesis on...

Amaia Gabantxo. Video-Poems by Basque Poets Translated into English (5, 6,...

#BasqueVideoPoems tercera entrega. Amaia Gabantxo
With this third entry in this series, we bring you the videos that complete the artistic project Amaia Gabantxo has been bringing us, titled...

Guides to Discover the History of the Basque Sheepherders Out West

Basque sheepherder camped on the range. Dangberg Ranch, Douglas County, Nevada. Photo by Arthur Rothstein. 1940
The Moab, Utah Canyon Country Zephyr is published in one of those places we're dying to visit because of the important Basque presence there,...

A Key Piece of Basque History in the US has Closed:...

(PHOTO: From left: Ignacio Maisterrena, Alfred Saldubehere and Pierre Arrayet — regulars at Noriega’s — speak and joke in their native Basque language in this undated file photo. “You don’t see family-style too much anymore,” Saldubehere, who came to the U.S. from France in 1958, said that day. “It feels like home)
Quite saddening news: the Noriega Hotel Restaurant in Bakersfield, California has closed its doors for the last time, after over 120 years.  This is yet...

Amaia Gabantxo. Video-poems by Basque poets translated into English (3 &...

Amaia Gabantxo #BasqueVideoPoems (3y4)
A few days ago, we were commenting how Amaia Gabantxo has dived into a new and very interesting artistic project to pass the lockdown: turning...