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The Jaialdi Basque Festival returns to Boise on July 29, drawing international visitors after a decade-long hiatus.
The Jaialdi fun will continue Sunday at Expo Idaho at 11am. At the Basque Block in Downtown Boise Sunday Night, Jaialdi will ...
The country's largest Basque festival returns to Boise after 10 years, featuring a week of cultural celebrations, traditional food and performances from July 29 to Aug. 3.
Boise, Idaho is home to one of the densest populations of Basque people in the entire world. But it is Jaialdi that brings ...
As Boise gets ready to host Jaialdi, the largest Basque Festival outside of the old country, festival goers can look forward ...
It has been 10 years since the last Jaialdi celebration, a casualty of the pandemic. “This is a Herculean community effort ...
One way people showed their enthusiasm was through spontaneous footwork. As a trio of musicians with accordions and a ...
It’s like a “homecoming” for Basque-Americans and Basques around the world to celebrate their culture with dancing, music and food.
It’s been a decade since the last Jaialdi. Meaning simply, “festival” in Basque, Jaialdi is usually held every five years, ...
After a 10-year hiatus, the world’s largest Basque festival is coming back to Boise — and organizers say it’s bigger, bolder, ...
The Basque people began to plant roots in Idaho during the 1890s, initially to work as shepherds, and their numbers in the ...