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The Chino Basque Club and the Basque community there will celebrate its annual picnic and Basque festival this weekend.  They are also hosting the second half of the World Mus Champions that began last weekend in San Francisco.  Today, the final matches will take place.  Starting tomorrow, they will say good-bye to mus and hello to the Chino Basque Picnic that also include NABO’s pilota finals, music, dance, raffles, mass, food and a great festive atmosphere. 

Chino, CA.  The World Mus Championships of Basque Communities 2017 was hosted this year by NABO and took place in two Basque communities in California, San Francisco and Chino. The tournament’s inauguration took place last Friday at the San Francisco Basque Cultural Center with the first games being played there through Tuesday.  On Wednesday the group traveled to Chino for the second half of the tournament.

The tournament that took place from August 25-September 3 in the aforementioned cities is being attended by eleven teams representing the following countries: Argentina, Canada, Chile, Euskadi (2), France, México, Uruguay, United States (2) and Venezuela.

At the time of this article, on Friday morning, these were the standings:

The daily Schedule for the tournament can be found here. 

Beginning tomorrow, the festivities will begin in Chino with the NABO Pilota Finals beginning at 10am at the Aphessetche Trinquet.  This is the schedule for that event:

After pilola, the Basque clubhouse will be the site for dinner beginning at 6pm.  On Sunday, the festivities will move to the local Fairgrounds and will begin with mass at 10am, celebrated by Aita Javier Altuna.  This will be followed by lunch, dance performances, the klika, and raffles…at night their will be a public dance to the music of Holakiki, from Euskal Herria.

-World Mus website: http://globalmus.com
-Chino Basque Club: http://www.chinobasqueclub.com