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 ...

CALDWELL — Celebrate the Basque culture with authentic Basque food, dancers, silent and live auctions Saturday at the 46th annual Caldwell Basque Dinner and Dance. The event will feature dinner at 6 p ...

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 ...

Not many history lessons include 14 lambs for one meal and a wine-drinking contest. Then again, not many cultures are quite like that of the Basques. • What: Break out the bota and work up an appetite ...

HOMEDALE -; Come enjoy all the color, sounds and rich traditions of Basque culture at the 8th Annual Homedale Basque Dance Saturday, March 8. Doors open at 6 p.m. for an evening of entertaining dance, ...

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Daughter Number Two decides to take circus skill classes...quite what use being able to walk a tightrope and juggle will be in later life, I have no idea My son's discovery of the joys of rugby (as ...

Some U.S. cities have become practically synonymous with the ethnic and religious groups who have settled there, such as the proud Irish Americans of Boston’s “Southie” neighborhood (see also: every ...

Anthony Peregrine reckons there's a lot we could learn from the people of the 'the most engrossing region in France' - the French Basque. By Anthony Peregrine 14 July 2010 • 5:29pm 'Peppers are to ...