Basque

An international Basque festival will be postponed until 2025. The festival called Jaialdi is held in Boise, Idaho once every 5 years.

This interview originally aired on May 28, 2019. Idaho has one of the largest Basque populations outside of Spain. The diaspora began in the late 19th…

One of the largest Basque festivals in the world is pushing pause for a year as it tries to wait out the coronavirus. Organizers who put on Jaialdi made…

In 1600, a Basque-born nun named Catalina de Erauso escaped the nunnery in Spain where they lived and began to dress as a man. They boarded a ship to…

Dan Ansotegui was raised around Basque music, food and dance. He's been playing the button accordian in different musical groups for decades and was…

Friday is the start of the annual San Inacio festival in downtown Boise. The event is named after Saint Ignatious of Loyola, the patron saint of the…

Idaho has one of the largest Basque populations outside of Spain. The diaspora began in the late 19th century as Basque workers arrived in the region to…

Domesticated sheep were brought to Southwest Idaho in the 1860's and helped support the state's economy as mining began to drop off in the late 19th…

The San Inazio Festival is an annual event to honor St. Ignatius of Loyola, the patron saint of the Basques. It began more than 25 years ago and now…

In the 1930s and 40s, hundreds of Basque people were brought to the western United States to do the desolate work that no one else would do—herding sheep.…