The goats of the Llanada and the last of the Gorbeialde

The first day of the D League was played last Saturday, February 1, at the Celedón Local Society of Zalduondo. People approached the association about 14:00, but many of the family members were already there. Making fire, assembling the equipment, organizing the tables, cooking the food… The lowering of the last minute of the oven was not a problem to prepare the sacraments. And that is, although it wasn't very cold, those who approached the bazkaria bertso heated their casings with sweet beans.

After eating in the family, the bertsolaris started singing when the nervousness was noticed. In the first place, the Zalduon-Do Re Mix writing modality acted, in version with trikitixa and clarinet. Then came the spontaneous session. The goats of the Llanada put on sale a fresh and young team, with some fichaje that was not from the Llanada; Eider Adame, Oihane Perea, Aitor Najera, Markel Yoller and Irati Anda. The latter of Gorbeialdea, for their part, took advantage of a team with a lot of experience in the fight; Aitor Jiménez, Serapio López and Unai Gómez. To judge the session, there were 3 members, one representative of the association and one member of each group. In addition to a fichaje at the last moment that was achieved in the winter market, a young man also worked as a photographer who in very distant times had participated in the bertso eskola. The program had an audience of about 20 listeners and was the most viewed program of the day.

The session dealt with topical issues such as the Coronavirus, the Zumarraga route or climate change. The exercises to be carried out by the bertsolaris were the greeting by teams, the biggest of 8, the small of 8, the points, the 4 feet, the answers of points, the final and the cocks accompanied by music. Most of the themes were taken with a sense of humor, which caused the laughter of the audience. According to the judges, the winning team consisted of the goats of the Llanada Alavesa.

The young people of the Bertso Eskola took the first line and listened carefully to all the verses, which will surely one day take over. A few years ago people also approached the Eskola bertso, so the seed is already sown. Will it flourish?

Rexala and Sumendiola de Vitoria fill with pot: Can't be done with effort

As Gerezti Unanue said in the act of farewell, beautiful things happen with the granites of many.

The Saturday was also a magical night, in which the 35 people we were in Errexala society will not forget in part.

Presenter Josu Vadillo directed yesterday’s programme with great success.

The jury was composed of Kristina Arteaga, Manex Garaio and Fernando Sopelana.

The challenge of two years ago in the same place was present from the very beginning and each team sat on different parts of the table. Greetings were prepared with a smell of war. Those of Errexala, dressed in Star Wars blankets and those of Sumendiola Bet Poto, wanted to keep their throne.

The Saltsa group of the Bertsoaren Saltsa of the Iparralde Civic Center offered a selection of bertsos to the are of a famous black horse with its Mexican costumes. Zorionak Aintzane Guridi, Josu Vadillo, Xabi Aranburu, Oskar Goldaraz and Idoia Lafuente!

The beginning of these trades was Felipe Zelaieta and Oier Lakuntza, in a great zortziko. They were two workers with poor working conditions, with the usual dilemma: they complained or not. Oier thought about his children's food, and Felipe responded that health is above all.

In Txikia, Julen Martiartu was a working bee of a hive without queen, and Garikoitz Sarriugarte, a bumblebee. Gari made it clear to him that he was not born to work and that Julen was also bored and would not make more honey.

It was time to give four legs and two little zortzikos. Eider Etxeberria reminded Markitos with a magical reminiscence and assured that, despite the desire for the rest of the band to stay on the bench, he is Robokop and will go ahead. Geresti Unanue said he will not pay for the damage he will cause to Errexala members.

After writing the verse, Maddi Juaristi told us that Thursday’s strike had not been a failure and that the struggle will continue. However, Ainara Balanzategi writes the winning story and that's why there are many gaps in the books.

Gari completed three bertsos with the points put to him by Ainhoa Aizpurua. That the coronavirus has not arrived, but that mayonnaise Musa has already prepared. Beñat Garaio said he had gone to France in search of masks.

While doing their work in jail, the Errexala people were taken to the streets while singing the Sumendiola Bet Potoko. It was the first day of the swimming course. They were about to jump into the hooded pool. Julen, Gerezti and BEÑAT told us that the key was not to put the head in and that they had left the cuff at home. For their part, Juan, Gari and Felipe de Errexala did not want to be the first to resemble each other and wanted to send Juan, the oldest.

The Sons of the Father sang. At the orders of musicians Jon Zelaieta and Oskar Goldaraz. Philip, Gari and Juan were three Erasmus students who lost their bags. They received him in a good mood and decided to spend the money from the scholarship to zero even though they had to put on the dirty underpants.

Maddi, Oier and BEÑAT were the cleaners of a five-star hotel. They told us that among the objects found were cocaine, cheetah and underpants lost by the rest of the group.

Among the viewers was Jesus Etxaburu, Getxo to whom we sang the Congratulations of Kaxiano on his 60th birthday.

In the farewell, people applauded Manu Bendala, who had just been his father.

Even though Juan said he loved the jury members, the winner was the Sumendiola Bet Poto group. Congratulations!

The group that worked so much in the kitchen and in the service deserves special mention: Pedro Gómez, Kristina Arteaga, Inaxio Etxeberria, Belen Urutxurtu, Aintzane Guridi, Xabi Aranburu… Not true!

Belen Urutxurtu and Antton Bastero acted as photographers and reporters of information to Facebook.

Then Jon and Oskar offered us a nice concert, and a bird tells us that the night was long enough for some.