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Basque Club Aldizkaria Negua < 2011 < Winter Odolki Jatea & Mus Tournament Lehendakari Patxi López Visits The Basque Cultural Center The Basque Club’s Members’ free lunch and mus tournament will take place on Saturday, February 5th at the San Francisco Basque On July 27th, 2010, the San Francisco Basque Cultural Center. The entire mus tournament will be played in one Cultural Center received the Lehendakari, day, with finals being contested immediately following lunch. Patxi López, who attended a warm meeting Teams that qualify for the finals, will be seated together at a spe- with the Board of Directors of the local cial reserved table for lunch. This table will be served first to en- Basque Clubs in the Bay Area. The Lehenda- sure that the qualifying teams can begin the finals promptly. kari then went on to participate in a recep- Mus tournament registration will start at 7:00am, and teams will be tion, which was attended by Basque business- seated at 7:45am. The registration fee is $40 per team. The Members’ men and businesswomen from California. free lunch will be at 12:30pm. Addressing this audience, López insisted that, If you have already qualified for the NABO mus tournament, you in addition to keeping their pride in being are still strongly encouraged to participate in this mus tourna- Basques alive, they join forces "on either side ment. of the Atlantic" to enable Basque companies to establish themselves in the U.S. and ensure Saturday, February 5th, 7:00am / 12:30pm that the Basque Country "continues to grow." To this end, López announced that the Basque Government will "resolutely support" the possibility of integrating CAF within the North American Fiftieth Anniversary Gala Culminates trade-show model. "The United States, in general, and California, Year Long Celebration in particular, represents a priority space for the development of those areas where Basques excel, in order to connect with the Metropoli of talent, a definition that we hope to apply to the Basque Country in the future," he pointed out. While visiting the Bay Area, López signed an agreement with U.C. Berkeley and discussed a future agreement with Stanford Univer- sity for joint research and exchange programs. The event began with a Basque dance performance by the Zazpiak Continued on Page 8 Zazpiak Bat Dancers Celebrate 50th Anniversary 2011 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Zaz- Joelle Ourtiague and Mathew Fosse lead the Zazpiak Bat dancers at the 50th anniversary gala at the Basque Cultural Center. Photo courtesy of Marie-Jose Durquet. piak Bat Dancers, which made its debut The Basque Club completed its year long 50th anniversary celebration performance in 1961. with a special gala at the Basque Cultural Center on September 25th, The Zazpiak Bat Dance 2010. The evening included special performances by Bertsolaris Johnny group was initiated Inside Curutchet and Gratien Alfaro in honor of the bertsolaris Xalbador and under the leadership of Mattin, who played a special role in the founding of the club. The Basque Frederic Fuldain and NABO News 2-4 Club’s Zazpiak Bat Dancers and Elgarrekin Basque choir also gave special Juan Tellechea, who 50th Anniversary 6 performances during the evening, along with the Basque band of Kitux, also served as the Euska Herria Brief 7 Basque musicians specifically assembled for this event. group’s first instructor Nomadak TX Live 8 Basque Club Honorary President Jean Gorostiague delivered a tribute to and who introduced the the late Frederic Fuldain, who was instrumental in many of the Basque group to dances from Basque Film Series 8 the Basque provinces Club activities in its formative years. Gaztemundu 8 of Bizkaia and Gipuz- The guests of honor were the seven surviving founding directors, Jean koa. The group started Basque Club Bus. 9 Acheritogaray, Andre Arduain, Paul Castech, Jean Cornu, Michel Du- practicing at the Union Joko Garbi at BCC 9 halde, Robert Gassuan and Gratien Ocafrain. Michel and Gratien trav- Espanola on Broadway 10 eled from the Basque Country to attend the gala. Basque Club President Street and at the upstairs room of the Basque Exhibit Christian Iribarren and Jean Gorostiague recognized their contributions 1 Continued on Page 5 Continued on Page 5 Basque Club Aldizkaria 2011 Negua NABO News www.NABasque.org NABO Hosts the International Mus Championships in Chino Every several years NABO serves as the host of the international tournament of Mus. This was the fifth time that the tournament was in the United States (previously in San Francisco NABO Mus Tournament twice, Las Vegas & Boise). Eleven delegations participated (Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Euskadi, France, Mexico, Peru, C.V.E (Spain), USA, Venezuela), with the Euskadi Winnemucca winning this year followed by the French team. Team Euskadi has dominated this tourna- ment in recent years winning ten of the past fourteen tournaments and winning a grand total of fifteen since the inception of the international championship in 1978. Although most participating delegations represent a country a few represent regions, such as Euskadi and Nafarroa. The C.V.E. delegation (Comunidades Vascas del Exterior) represents Basque clubs in Spain outside of the Basque Country. The International Mus Championships this year will be hosted in Angelu, Lapurdi. Details and itinerary are posted on http://www.globalmus.com/ (click 2011 Agenda/Program). International Mus Championships Year Host City Host Country Champion 1 1978 Azkaine, Lapurdi Euskal Herria Euskadi 2 1979 San Francisco, CA USA Euskadi 3 1980 Donostia, Gipuzkoa Euskal Herria Chile 4 1981 Mexico D.F. Mexico USA 5 1982 Buenos Aires Argentina Venezuela 6 1983 Santiago de Chile Chile Chile 7 1984 Caracas Venezuela Venezuela 8 1985 Donibane Garazi, Baxenabarre Euskal Herria Argentina 1986 Las Vegas, NV USA Chile The 2010 NABO Mus Championships were 9 played at Winnemucca, Nevada, on June 12th and 10 1987 Donostia, Gipuzkoa Euskal Herria Euskadi were hosted by the Danak Bat Basque Club. Al- 11 1988 San Carlos de Bariloche Argentina Euskadi berto Blanco & Pedro Sanz (pictured below) won 12 1989 Mexico D.F. Mexico Euskadi the tournament and represented the Fresno 13 1990 Aiegi, Nafarroa Euskal Herria Mexico Basque Club. Etienne Jorajuria and Josephine 14 1991 Santiago de Chile Chile Australia Curutchet (pictured above), representing Gardner- 15 1992 Baiona, Lapurdi Euskal Herria Argentina ville, won second place. Since NABO was hosting 1993 Mar de Plata Argentina Australia the International Mus Championships this year in 16 Chino, these top two teams qualified to represent 17 1994 Montevideo Uruguay Mexico the U.S.A. 18 1995 San Francisco, CA USA Mexico 19 1996 Valladolid, Castile and León Spain C.V.E 20 1997 Isla Margarita Venezuela Euskadi 21 1998 Iruña, Nafarroa Euskal Herria Euskadi 22 1999 Acapulco Mexico Euskadi 23 2000 Donostia, Gipuzkoa Euskal Herria Chile 24 2001 Boise, ID USA Euskadi 25 2002 Miarritze, Lapurdi Euskal Herria Euskadi 26 2003 Mar de Plata Argentina Euskadi 27 2004 Acapulco Mexico Euskadi 28 2005 Donostia, Gipuzkoa Euskal Herria Argentina 29 2006 Santiago de Chile Chile Argentina 30 2007 Mar de Plata Argentina Euskadi 31 2008 Barcelona Catalonia Euskadi 32 2009 Balmaseda, Bizkaia Euskal Herria C.V.E 33 2010 Chino, CA USA Euskadi 34 2011 Angelu, Lapurdi Euskal Herria 2 Basque Club Aldizkaria 2011 Negua NABO News www.NABasque.org The International mus players and delegates, sporting their cowboy hats that were presented to them by the U.S. hosts. NABO Convention at Jaialdi The Zazpiak Bat dancers and klika performed last year at Jaialdi 2010, an international Basque cultural festival that takes place every five years in Boise, Idaho, which includes six days of celebrations that drew thousand of attendees from all over the world. For almost a week, Basque rural sports, pelota tourna- ments, dances, bertsolaris, conferences, food, drink, music and lovely weather accompanied the red, green and white crowds that filled the Basque Block, down- town Boise, and the Expo Idaho Fairgrounds. "Everybody wants to be Basque in Boise during the Jaialdi," many say in town. The festival does not just concern the Basque community, the whole commu- nity of Boise gets involved. "It has become an important city event. Certainly for the Basque community, but as time has gone on the broader community has become more aware of it and has embraced it to a certain extent," says Mayor of Boise Dave Bieter". Matt Etchepare (above) competing in The festival has been a great success, according to Jaialdi director Dave Eiguren. "I would say that it ex- the NABO Pilota Tournament in ceeded all our expectations by four. Very smooth," Dave says. Boise. San Francisco had a good showing at the 2010 NABO Pilota Director of the Basque Museum and Cultural Center, Patty Miller, who during the festival received the Finals in Boise at Jaialdi. Xavier Lagun Onari Award for the museum's contribution to Basque history and culture, is of the same opinion Ocafrain defeated Dennis Pet- as Eiguren: "It's been a great success. Wonderful crowds. The Boise Basque community really set up for rissans in the final for Handball Sin- this program and all the activities have been first class, so I think the people that came had a good experi- gles, then Xavier and Dennis teamed up to defeat Edu Sarria and ence," Patty Miller says. Lino Zabala in the Handball doubles Nancy Zubiri, Euskal Kazeta editor, also agrees. "As a journalist, because I have been covering the Basque final. Aupa Xavier! In the Class A Paleta Goma final, community in the United States for a long time, I think this has been one of the biggest Jaialdis. This Jacques Uhalde and Robert Iriart- could only happen in Boise because it has that concentration of Basques to do that", she says.
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