NOKA & Mikel Markez
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 2: Basque: Innovation by Culture / 2.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2016 July 07
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0707_Basque_Musika_eta_Dantza_Etxea_0006
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: NOKA; Begoña Echeverria; Andrea Miren Bidart; Cathy Petrissans; Mikel Markez NOKA is a trio of Basque American women based in Chino, California: Andrea Miren Bidart, Begoña Echeverria, and Cathy Petrissans. Together they ize in songs about Basque culture, gender, and identity. The group's name derives from the antiquated Basque noka form of address, used familiarly among women with a sense of konfiantza, or trust. Mikel Markez, a modern folk singer and songwriter, will join NOKA for this concert. Mikel is from Errenteria, Gipuzkoa in Basque Country where he starting singing at the age of 15 and released his first songs a year later. Since then, he has recorded several albums and has become an established composer of Basque music. His most popular song, "Zure Begiek (Your Eyes)," is a serenade in Basque about his lost love.