Once or twice a year the Autonomous Basque Government of Euskadi sponsors a cultural tour to provide our communities an opportunity to experience some of the latest work of Basque entertainers.

In Dec. 2007 the Basque txalaparta and duo of Iñaki Plaza & Ion Garmendia gave us quite a show.

Basque-Americans & our non-Basque friends from coast-to-coast had an opportunity to take in the music of the Basque txalapartak as played by some of the best around! Thanks to funding from the Basque Government, and the elkarlan ("working together") of several Basque communities Iñaki Plaza and Ion Garmendia presented a multi-faceted show of Basque musical instruments.

Between them they played the txalaparta, trikitixa, tambourine, txistu, alboka and king size PVC pipe (yes that's right). They put on quite a show!

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