The Jaialdi Basque Festival returns to Boise on July 29, drawing international visitors after a decade-long hiatus.

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.

While Basque culture takes center stage this week in downtown Boise for the Jaialdi festival, the Basque roots run deep in ...

Boise, Idaho is home to one of the densest populations of Basque people in the entire world. But it is Jaialdi that brings ...

It’s been a decade since the last Jaialdi. Meaning simply, “festival” in Basque, Jaialdi is usually held every five years, ...

Basque. Jaialdi attendees can sample a variety of specialties from the old country during the festival, including one very specific drink: Kalimotxos.

One way people showed their enthusiasm was through spontaneous footwork. As a trio of musicians with accordions and a ...

As Boise reaches the halfway point of the Basque festival Jaialdi, Gov. Brad Little welcomes Lehendakari Imano Pradales, the ...

It has been 10 years since the last Jaialdi celebration, a casualty of the pandemic. “This is a Herculean community effort ...

It’s like a “homecoming” for Basque-Americans and Basques around the world to celebrate their culture with dancing, music and food.

Radio journalist Urtzi Gartzia was looking to cover Jaialdi in the City of Trees, but was denied entry to the U.S., with no ...

Boise State celebrated Aste Nagusia, Basque Week, a vibrant celebration of the university’s 50-year partnership with the ...