While Basque culture conjures up images of food like paella, tapas, chorizo and lamb grinders in the minds of many Boiseans, Basque music also has a commanding presence in the City of Trees, one that ...

Blue, the Idaho Steelheads mascot, will hang out with fans at the CenturyLink Free Skate on Sunday, March 12. Allen Picard Courtesy of Idaho Steelheads The workweek may have just gotten started, but ...

This summer, visitors to the 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will explore the unique language and distinct heritage of the Basque people. “Basque: Innovation by Culture” will feature musicians, ...

Mari Carmen Totorica grew up in Basque Country, but she had to move to Idaho to learn Basque songs. Totorica was born in Gernika, in northern Spain near the border with France. The town was the site ...

BOISE — Valentine Aguirre could be heard at New York boat docks in the late 1800s shouting, “Euskaldunak emen badira?” It means, “Are there any Basques here?” The familiar sound of their language from ...

Every year during the last weekend in July, Idahoans turn off their country music and set aside their cowboy hats to take part in a celebration that is old and European but nonetheless down home to ...

The California gold rush brought the first Basque immigrants to the United States in the 1840s. After the gold dried up, many of their descendants stayed in the Central Valley region, turning to the ...