Subai hill has been proclaimed champion of this year’s bertsolaris Xilaba modality and Urruña’s bertsolari has been blunt. He put the final in his favor: in the beginning, after playing with Amets Arzallus in the great zortziko, and also in the individual championship, until competing with his usual companion. Quick ideas, good rhymes, bertsolarism fuerte.El
hendaiarra AMETS Arzallus was not perhaps in his best day, but he would also have wanted a txapela that had been three times in the Bizkaia pediment of Bilbao. This fifth txapela of Xilaba, like the previous one, has left over the hull of Subai. He who was a champion ended his first greeting with the point “To kill me / and to celebrate us” and his last solo job made him urgently “in front of the ravine and with the decision to jump.” On all subjects, Colina knew how to kill herself by singing through the lips of the different characters.
You cannot take credit for the other five bertsolaris. If the final was so good, so warm, it was thanks to all the bertsolaris. AMETS Arzallus, Maddalen Arzallus, Odei Barroso, Miren Artetxe and Xumai Murua remained behind the champion, respectively.
A strong champion, a very strong Xilaba, I think with what he has done, this year’s championship has given much to talk about. The most important objectives have been met: fifteen bertsolaris have appeared in the seven peoples of our three territories, hundreds of bertsolaris have approached the actions and that has been done in Basque.
Perhaps we do not underline it enough, but the championship itself can be criticised as a competition, at least, is an event that takes place only in Basque. Only in Basque and head to head. Seven Saturdays in the afternoon, performances of two or three hours have been offered in seven localities in Iparralde. It may not be much, but it is always better than nothing.
Looking to the future is also a consolation. I am referring to the future of bertso, always stopping to our extent. I think Xilaba is consolidating. It is being consolidated in some villages and is being consolidated in the head of the Bertsolaris fan. We have also been able to see the children playing at bertsolaris schools in the eliminatory, in the semi-finals and in the final. For them, all bertsolaris are becoming an example and better. We've also seen Bertsolaris younger from Iparralde as collaborators and better. The Xilaba needs everyone for a long time.
I think the ones next door will be more beautiful and beautiful. I firmly believe.