Every Memorial Day weekend, the Kern County Basque Festival highlights the talent of both the local community as well as the ...

“We wanted to come here and promote this because we heard there hadn’t been a real Basque game here in decades,” he said. Mexico-born Marcos Medina traveled from Los Angeles to play pilota ...

But by that time he had already served as a machine-gunner in the French army, was the French champion at the Basque games of chistera (jai alai), pala (jai alai with a small bat), and mains nues ...

Tradition and culture were the focus of the fun for the 80th annual Kern County Basque Festival held Memorial Day weekend at the Kern County Basque Club on South Union Avenue. In between food and ...

Over the years Basque culture has become woven into ... like if you were on a basketball team that always practiced but you never had a game how long are you going to go to practice for right?

“Athletic only play with players who come from the Basque Country or were, to use their words, formed in the Basque Country,” said Christopher Evans, the author of Los Leones, the first ...