basque heritage worldwide
01/21/2017
Boiseko Ikastola children playing Danborrada in Boise, Idaho. Danborrada is a drum festival very popular in the city of Donostia-San Sebastian, in the Basque Country (video Boiseko Ikastola)
01/20/2017
Mari Luz is a teacher from Donostia-San Sebastian who spent time in Sweden. She took advantage of her time there and taught her students at the Värgårdsskola school in Kisa to play the Danborrada. This is how it sounds directed from Donostia by videoconference (video Mari Luz Grandal, through EiTB.eus)
01/17/2017
Lipdub by the 2017 Basque Udaleku (summer camp) kids, in Chascomús, Argentina, organized by the local Zingirako Euskaldunak Basque Club of Chascomus.
01/16/2017
Today, in states like Idaho there are thousands of Basque Americans many of whose ancestors immigrated here a century ago to herd sheep. Henry Etcheverry is one of the last of the Basque sheepmen. His father, Jean Pierre, immigrated in 1929 from the Basque Country. Boise, Idaho has a large concentration of Basques, the Mayor is Basque and there’s an entire block dedicated to Basque businesses... By Kristen Dirksen (video Faircompanies.com)
10/12/2016
The Basque clubs in Patagonia have begun in 2016 a dynamic to meet and join forces. The initiative came from the youngest center, the Gure Txokoa of San Martin de los Andes, and they have already announced its third meeting. The video shows Manuel Bustingorry (San Martin de los Andes) and Rocio Basterra (Viedma and Carmen de Patagones) explaining to TV cameras their deep Basque feelings, activity, commitment and plans. They exude energy and enthusiasm (video Noticias TVEO).
07/05/2016
Teaching basic Basque vocabulary in a introductory class to the Basque lagnguage at the National Mall in Washington DC at the 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival dedicated to the Basques. The video shows the explanations by Kinku Zinkunegi, coordinator of the Euskara Munduan, a program in charge of teaching the language at Basque Clubs throught the world, and Errukiñe Olaziregi, Basque teacher at the Basque Center in Madrid (image EuskalKultura.com).
07/05/2016
Bilingual version of Old McDonald had a farm in English and Basque explained for kids by Begoña Echeverria and Cathy Petrissans, members of the Basque-Californian musi group Noka. "Old McDonald had a farm bazuen baserria" is the new Basque-English title of the song (video EuskalKultura.com)
07/05/2016
Kick off concert for the 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, Washington DC, June 2017, featuring the Basques. Concert at the National Mall by Kepa Junkera & Sorginak with part of the public dancing Basque (video EuskalKultura.com)
07/05/2016
The Smithsonian Folklife Festval 2016 dedicated to the Basques at the National Mall was June 28-July 4, July 7-10. These images belong to the Kepa Junkera & Sorginak concert, Basque music and dance at the National Mall, first night concert of the Festival, June 29, with Basque and American public dancing under the rhythms of the Basque players (video EuskalKultura.com)
07/05/2016
Congressman John Garamendi addresses those present during the plantation of a Tree of Gernika shoot in the Capitol Gardens in Washington DC, July 2, 2016 (video EuskalKultura.com)
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