Over a thousand people gathered in Boise’s Basque Block for the third day of Jaialdi. The Basque Block became a meeting ground for Basques, Basque-Americans and people who just wanted to join in on ...

The voice rang clear even as the din of Jaialdi and its hundreds, perhaps thousands, of attendees surrounded it. The older gentleman who called out waved his drink in the air, a smile splitting his ...

The land of the Basque people, split between Spain and France, is a “nation without a state” — left off the map when they drew Europe’s national borders. The Basque Country is often left out of travel ...

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 ...

FOR years now at the height of summer I have been impelled northward toward the Basque country. And each time, on renewing contact with the hardy Basques, the same project is rekindled within me: to ...

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 ...

This story originally appeared in the Boise Weekly. 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 ...

For a territory of roughly 2.2 million people, the Basque Country punches far above its weight in nonfiction filmmaking. The region produces around 20 documentary features a year, supported by an ...