It’s Monday night and the Basque Center is crammed with nearly 175 dancers, musicians, actors and stage crew. It’s organized chaos, for they’ve been rehearsing — every Monday night — since January.

For the first time in over a decade, thousands of people from around the world will gather in Boise’s Basque Block to celebrate Jaialdi. The six-day festival honoring Basque culture through food, ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, which draws musicians from around the world, this year includes a trio of Basque musicians bringing their rural European sound to the festival.

Growing up in my household meant constantly hearing live music. My father, who fell in love with the fiddle in college, had developed an interest in Irish music. When I was six years old, I took a ...

Hailing from the autonomous Basque region of Spain and named for the featured vehicle in Back to the Future, Delorean are a dance-friendly foursome with an ever-growing fan base. The band’s good ...

BOISE, Idaho — Point out any building on the Basque block in downtown Boise and Isana Bengoetxea can share a fact, a family story or a memory about it. "[Basque culture] has probably had the biggest ...

BOISE — Treasure Valley residents have been treated to a rare slice of Basque life as events like the quinquennial Jaialdi and, more recently, the San Inazio Festival have graced the streets of Boise.

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 ...

What happened in Spain with Kepa Junkera has happened with countless other musicians around the world, including Miles Davis and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Junkera took a traditional music and modernized ...

If you went to see Festara, the Basque dance and music performance during Jaialdi, you probably left the Morrison Center jumping and shuffling your feet like the dancers who had just left the stage.

Organizers for the National Folk Festival announced Thursday the first musical acts that agreed to play at this summer’s event, which will include Louisiana zydeco to traditional Basque music. Seven ...