The Hu, comprised of Temuulen "Temka" Naranbaatar on the tovshuur (three-stringed lute), Galbadrakh "Gala" Tsendbaatar playing the morin khuur (horse head fiddle), Nyamjantsan "Jaya" Galsanjamts ...

Sep. 17—The spirit and sounds of Mongolia filled a small side room for a few minutes on Saturday at 1st Summit Arena @ Cambria County War Memorial in downtown Johnstown. Members of The HU, a band that ...

Liane Hansen reads from e-mail received this past week from listeners. Topics include praise for Hal Cannon's recent piece on the music of Mongolian herdsmen. And we correct a couple of boo-boos in ...

Bordering nations often share a common food or musical heritage that develops as a process of mutual influences. Mongolia, with its rich and distinctive musical traditions, is bordered by Russia in ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Ih Tsetsn will perform at the 2014 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Photo by Sojin Kim, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian ...

(RNS) — Hair flying, war banners waving, a Mongolian heavy metal band sings of shamanist spirituality and their devotion to the chief embodiment of the sky-deity Tengri. Not that anyone seems to ...

An eight-man heavy metal band from Mongolia known as The Hu has done what few thought could happen in the 21st century: Create a new genre of folk-metal music. Decked out in black war regalia out of ...