HU band members Gala (left), Jaya (center) and Ono pose for a picture at their studio in Ulaanbaatar on Dec. 27, 2023. (Credit: Elise Ann Allen/Crux.) Listen ULAANBAATAR – When Pope Francis visited ...

“I want to celebrate Mongolian culture in my own way.” Nature Ganganbaigal is explaining the inspiration for his folk-metal band Tengger Cavalry, started as a one-man project in his native Beijing in ...

This weekend, The Hu is set to become the first Mongolian rock band to ever perform at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in Indio. Equal parts heavy metal and Mongolian folk music, The Hu’s ...

Suvda Khereid of Sunset Park is a Mongolian singer who has performed in Japan, China and across the United States. She is featured in the Center for Traditional Music and Dance’s Beat of the Boroughs: ...

Tengger Cavalry, the NYC-via-China band who mix traditional Mongolian folk music and heavy metal, are releasing a new album this year. It’s called Cian Bi and it drops on February 23 via Napalm ...

Archery, horseback riding and wrestling – these are the traditional Mongolian activities done at the Naadam Festival, which runs every July in the country. Music, of course, accompanies the event, and ...

As a metal writer, you use ‘epic’ a lot, and usually that just means ‘cinematic’ or ‘impressive.’ But Mongolian folk metallers The Hu are most certainly epic proper, believably channeling themes of ...

Ralph Rinzler papers and audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the ...