The Euskal Herria Zuzenean festival will be held from June 30 to July 2. It will be the 27th edition, for the fourth time in Irisarri. The organization has made some progress on programming in the press release of 12 April. They have announced new names, but not so new. They stress that "diversity" will be another year the festival's strength, both in its style and in its territoriality.

The Bayonet group Willis Drummond presents his work 'Hala ere'. From Bakio, the AKats group will bring the electronic melodies to Irisarri and Mandarin rap from Toulouse in Occitania. There will also be international groups: the London group Madmad will offer a punk and funk concert, and the Brazilian American group Soulfly will be able to hear metal.

They have also made further statements. It will be the Northern Basque Country folk Habia in the Plaza de Irisarri; by Zumarraga, the Morea Alarm will bring runba music; and the MICE group will be present at the festival presenting their latest work, Lautada.

The first announcement of the programming was made in early March. The groups of Vela, Colinga, Africa Bibang, Ada Oda, Kristona and Muare will be joined by the groups mentioned on 12 April. Besides music, you will enjoy more artistic disciplines; the dance company Ertza will offer the show Otempodiz (you have watches, we have time). The organizers announce that conferences and round tables will be reported shortly.

For militant work, go ahead

The organization has wanted to recall that hundreds of collaborators and militants make RSI possible and that this year they will also need 500 collaborators. In this way, available volunteers will be able to enroll in ehz.eus from May.

The three-day tickets are now on sale on the web. Daily tickets may be purchased from 31 May.