Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Festivals love to tout their world premieres, but the best of them also know how to channel their local roots.

JULY, 1984, and as the sun shines on George Square in Glasgow the Alkartasuna Basque dance group entertains passersby as it helps to launch the city’s fifth international folk festival. More than 200 ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. While Basque country is home to many styles of dance, each with variations in dress, there are some basic elements that dance costumes have in ...

Growing up in my household meant constantly hearing live music. My father, who fell in love with the fiddle in college, had developed an interest in Irish music. When I was six years old, I took a ...

Over a thousand people gathered in Boise's Basque Block for the third day of Jaialdi. The Basque Block became a meeting ground for Basques, American-Basques and people who just wanted to join in on ...

Similarly, the groom carries a handkerchief that bears symbols representing his family. It is often used during moments when ...

A FREE demonstration of dancing and music from the Basque country is being held to help raise funds to send a cerebral palsy sufferer to college. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The ...

Andoni Luis Aduriz, Jon Maya Sein and Pablo Iraburu, leading lights of Basque gastronomy, dance and non-fiction production, are teaming to make a creative documentary which pays homage to a movie ...

Potlotek’s Keely Basque got the opportunity of a lifetime to represent Canada in Prague at the World Dance Cup and participate in a masterclass hosted by hit TV show Dance Moms’ Abby Lee Miller.