 Popular performers are Joseba Tapia and Kepa Junkera.Highly appreciated folk instruments are the txistu (a tabor pipe similar to Occitanian galoubet recorder), alboka (a double clarinet played in circular-breathing technique, similar to other Mediterranean instruments like launeddas) and txalaparta (a huge xylophone, similar to the Romanian toacă and played by two performers in a fascinating game-performance).As in many parts of the Iberian peninsula, there are ritual dances with sticks, swords and arches made from vegetation.