Growing up in my household meant constantly hearing live music. My father, who fell in love with the fiddle in college, had developed an interest in Irish music. When I was six years old, I took a ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The Festival of American Fiddle Tunes, which draws musicians from around the world, this year includes a trio of Basque musicians bringing their rural European sound to the festival.

If you went to see Festara, the Basque dance and music performance during Jaialdi, you probably left the Morrison Center jumping and shuffling your feet like the dancers who had just left the stage.

At the 2016 Folklife Festival, the Oinkari Basque Dancers energetically twirled, jumped, and high-kicked across the Musika eta Dantza Etxea and Frontoia. But this wasn’t their first time gracing the ...