Xabier Silveira was made with the txapela in the Anaitasuna, in the last edition of the Bertsolaris Championship of Navarra held last Saturday. In the sports club of Pamplona/Iruña, Lesaka got the seventh place. This was not the only prize that was awarded, as four tickets for the Basque Country were distributed to over 1,500 fans.

Warm atmosphere About you. Zumarraga's cousin has not failed, before five o'clock he's on the stands, he asked me about Julen Zelaieta. You cannot imagine a final from Navarre without the participation of Bera. A performance of bertsolaris needs humor in dialectics and the end is no exception. Zelaieta is on the field, among the journalists, and the listeners of the Xorroxin radio will not get bored before the public. In this edition 31 bertsolaris have participated, most of them dressed in red cloths.

From Estella to Pamplona

I had to make a short chronicle of the tournament to my cousin. This year’s edition kicked off at Estella, where the program gave a good account of the participation of the six finalists, three of whom are Siveria, Lagoma and Fernández, who have been classified for the next phase. Aldatz, Larraintzar, Ituren and Zubiri played the rest of the quarterfinals.

The semi-finals of Atarrabia and Etxarri Aranatz were of a high level, the same cannot be said of the final disputed in the Lur room of Elizondo, Zelaieta and Elosegi were candidates for the final, but in the Baztan they had a championship tour.

Natural light in Anaitasuna, the eight bertsolaris are in the locker rooms, but we don't need any bertsolari around us. My cousin sent me a sign to look to the left. Close to us, two bertsolaris arrived from Lapurdi, one of them knows the final of Euskal Herria and at some point has participated in this championship, the other has dreamed of BEC. A little further up a crew of Durangaldea, where every four years we see on the stage Anoeta or Barakaldo.

The Manolo Harvest

Bittor Elizagoien has passed through our right, next to Manolo Arozena. If you look at history, these two are the main culprits for today's party, if not the older ones. Two champions, two teachers. Bittor continued in the Baztan the road begun three decades ago by Arozena in the Five Villas of Navarra. Today is the turn of Elizagoien who has to give the txapela.El
program is about to start, with stands and court packed with people. On the stage, Oskar Estanga (Gaintza), Julio Soto (Gorriti), Eneko Lazkoz (Etxarri-Aranatz), Erika Lagoma (Lesaka), Xabier Silveira (Lesaka), Aimar Karrika (Auritz), Eneko Fernández (Lesaka)

No representative of the County of Pamplona has told me Zumarraga. Compared to the final two years ago at the Labrit, there was a small but significant change, more listeners and many of them came on foot or to Villavesa.

Aimar Karrika is a stranger to his cousin, he warned me of the beautiful voice of the auriztarra. Two years ago in the Labrit he met Eneko Lazkoz, who signed on the grounds of Etxarri, the then sentence of his cousin. No one is born to whom Oskar Estanga will not rejoice. In the previous finals, with Zelaieta and Estanga there, there was no lack of laughter, on this occasion, in theory, it is Oskar's responsibility. The last farewell has been sung by Jon Barberena, in the verse of elegance elizondotarra.

Very close to us, we will hear “Aupa Eneko” throughout the program, it is the lesakarras who are on our right, the bertsolaris and those who have participated in more than one Navarre final.

The programme was unleashed at dusk, where Silveira and Fernandez are working six points away, two of the injured who have had to go for sexual therapy. Ondarroa’s bertsolari has invented the best performance in the history of Bertsolari to date. The work done in the jail will give the txapela to Xabier, and thanks to those works Eneko Fernández, who has been brave throughout the championship and during the final, has won the ticket for Euskal Herria.

No manomanist

The prison has ended, on the court, just ten meters from the jury in the count of points, we have read “there is” on one’s lips. Our cousin said: “Silveira.”

Unlike what happened in the 2009 Lur Aretoa and the 2011 Labrit, the manomanist will not be played in Anaitasuna. I have received a message from an alsasuarra friend, I have had to answer the question “What?” and I have written to him “There will be no SS.” It was that friend, who told me happy after the manomanist of 2009 Silveira and Soto, that we needed this in the Bertsolarism of Navarra. I then addressed him in Alto Navarra.

The victory of Xabier was well deserved in the first part. Two days earlier he had already announced, a 2013 Silveira can win a txapela, and in Anaitasuna Tigrea has demonstrated for the tenth consecutive year that he can sing bertsos. Silveira, Soto, Lagoma, Fernández, Lazkoz, Barberena, Estanga and Karrika. Four game tickets, of which three will be played in Lesaka, Málaga and Málaga. Manolo will be pleased, it can be said that the three are of his harvest and the fourth place of Fernández has demonstrated the suitability of the type of competition that took place last year, a championship in which bertsolaris and amateurs were very satisfied.

The program is over, bertsos fans are lifting the chairs of the court, it's only just started the party. In Navarre, it is expected that the final will be held on Saturday, 150 people will meet in a cider in Pamplona, the party will not end there.

Before dinner we talked to a champion. The cousin asks him if the prison issue was not too open, "He has received the signal. Now there is no turning back." If one of us touches us, we can bring the sign to buy a flat or the money to accept an axe wager. The two are from another era, between the two centuries ago.

Two adventures. One is good, the other is good or bad. Erika Lagoma has made a great championship. In the semi-final many saw it just like Soto, but not in vain Villava's was the best program in this championship. The second surprise of the day was that Soto did not get the third txapela, but stayed in the manomanist of the final. The cousin spoke openly and the loss will do him well. The documentary recovers the tension it has not had in today’s day in the Basque Country. Obviously, Anaitasuna is not the Plaza de Julio Soto, as in the Bertsolaris Championship four years ago he lost in the sports club the opportunity to go to the final and on this occasion most experts gave him the third txapela ahead.

Most of those present, more than the Mayor, remembered the Bardos competition the following year. The festival ended with daylight, it is unreproachable to hear the cousin with the mayor of the town, Zenborain (Untzitibar). Extensive Geography of Bertsolarism of Nafarroa Garaia, a geography that will spread.