Dancing plays a key role in Basque identity and includes traditional carnivals, processions, and parades as well as modern creations. Music also occupies a central place in Basque culture, ranging from folk instruments like the alboka and txalaparta to modern genres such as punk and metal. Singing traditions have been passed down orally for generations through ballads dating back to the 15th century.

2. Dancing is a key part of Basque identity.
Key words: Participation, integration, social interaction and
conviviality.

3. There are carnivals, processions and parades as well as
contemporary creations. Highly technical and popular,
spontaneous and cultural, Basque dancing reflects the
complex nature of Basque society

4.  Music plays a central role in Basque culture. Music
ranges from folk, which is symbolized by folk instruments
such as the alboka and txalaparta, to more modern
forms of expression, especially punk and metal.

5. Some traditional instruments
Txalaparta- sounds like the trot of the horse

6. The alboka is a double hornpipe or clarinet native to the
Basque Country

7. Txistu, a kind of flute

8. Trikitixa, a two-row Basque diatonic button accordion

9. Singing tradition
The Basque people are especially given to singing.
There are ballads dating from the 15th century
that have been passed from parents to children by
word of mouth.

10. Some modern musicians
Fermin Muguruza,one of the most influential
modern Basque musicians.

11. Negu Gorriak (harsh winters)

12. Su Ta Gar (fire and embers)

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