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Buenos Aires, Argentina.  After two days of intense activity – remember that Euskaltzaleak hosted the jewelry workshop on Thursday and on Friday they held open workshops on Basque instruments – members and friends of the Basque Language School in Buenos Aires gathered once more on Saturday for its first Triki-poteo.

The route started with a drink in at the club headquarters on Bernardo de Irigoyen Street and continued along a previously determined route through the street of Estados Unidos and Defensa to the Dorrego Plaza, where the group returned to the starting point.  More than 100 people participated in the event, among them, representatives from the Scottish community, members of the Askatasunaren Bidea Basque association in San Miguel and students of the Basque language and culture lecturer at the National University in La Plata.  Here is a photo chronicle of the event:

[Once everyone was gathered, the dancers invited everyone present to join in on the first dance of the afternoon that they did in front of Euskaltzaleak's headquarters (photoEE)]

[Club musicians accompanied the dances, songs and the entire tour (photo EE)]

[Trikis and panderos, to the rhythm of the kalejiras drove the group through the streets of San Telmo (photoEE)]

[Not only trikis and panderos filled the night; albokas also resounded through the streets of San Telmo providing neighbors a sound that they hadn’t heard before in the city (photo EE)]

[Just as promised in the last edition of the Festival of Communities organized at the Hotel of Immigrants in Buenos Aires, Basques and Scottish got together again to share a musical moment and party.  Gaitas, violin and guitar also led the group through the Triki-poteo (photo EE)]

[In Basque Country style the group had to stop en route for a drink.  In the bars, the dancers continued to make circles to dance fandangos, arin-arins and the traditional Zazpi Jauzi (photo EE)]

[Dancers swept the bars…as well as the streets.  In this way, neighbors and passersby could also enjoy and join in the show (photo EE)]

[The Dorrego Plaza was the last stop before turning back.  They also provided a small dance exhibition there.  Musicians from the Scottish community played Sean Ryan’s Polka  for the dancers (photoEE)]

[On their way back to Bernardo de Irigoyen Street the party continued into the night.  There the sounds of the txalaparta, kalimotxo and talo prepared by club cooks joined in the festivities.  It should be noted that a large group of young Basques that are currently in Buenos Aires for work or study also joined in the Triki-poteo (photoEE)]

[Finally, to summarize, a postcard with different moments of the first Triki-poteo in Buenos Aires (photoEE)]