Last weekend we went to Andoain for Kilometroak, which is an annual fundraiser for Basque-speaking schools. It was totally packed, which is good news for the school in question. There is inevitably a lot of baldly independentist sentiment expressed at these things. There was also a rare performance by Erramun Martikorena along with Mikel Markez. If the Basques had a nation, Martikorena would be a national treasure. He is from Zuberoa (which is known in French as Soule) which is famed for its excellent singers and for people who speak the rarest (and many people say the prettiest) dialect of Euskara. If folk music is your thing, check it out. Also see: Mikel Laboa. 
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