Political frontiers have continually varied according to the vagaries of history. Towns, people and cultures have been divided. However, there have always been people ready to jump the barriers without permision. Culture smugglers, traffickers of languages, dances and traditions, dream dealers, have striven to meet and share the booty.

In the 'sharnègo' areas between Gascony and the Basque Country the two cultures have been able to live together and maintain their own spaces and their shared spaces. They have created different forms of expression from the same source. One could say that they naturally return to their Vascon past.

XARNEGE is a meeting place not a mixture. A crossroads not a fence, a look to the future from the roots, not an inert museum. Everyone's and no-one's land. A place where you share and continue the nocturnal journey with your sack full of music.

Xarnege is a Gascon word which refers to villages on the Gascony and Basque border in which people express themselves in both Basque and Gascon. And so the musical project of  XARNEGE is a blending and includes many of the abundant elements common to both cultures