Naadam festival is held on 11-12 July annually in Ulaanbaatar, the capital city of Mongolia. Naadam is the 6th biggest festival in the world and authentic Mongolian nomadic cultural heritage. In 2011 the Naadam opening ceremony featured 1000 morin khuur (Mongolian musical instrument) players and lots of Mongolian music and dances. Travel to Mongolia and take part in the Nadaam festival with Selena Travel Mongolia. We have excellent Mongolia tours including Naadam festival tours and cultural discovery tours. More info at www.selenatravel.com
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The Naadam Festival is the major Mongolian holiday and a wonderful time to experience the culture and people of this amazing land. The festival has its roots in the nomad wedding assemblies and hunting extravaganzas of the Mongol Army. The opening ceremony features marches and music from soldiers, monks and athletes before the real fun begins! In the Naadam Stadium the three sporting passions of Mongolians, horse racing, wrestling and archery, are played out over 2 days. But if you don't want to watch sport all the time, there's plenty to see and do outside -- food, music, crafts or just people watching.
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Mongolian Naadam Festival originates from the Hunnu era (209 BC) when the Mongol tribes tested whose horses are the best, whose warriors are the strongest and whose archers are the most skilled... Still the Mongols have this beautiful festival today and they celebrate it on 11-12 July annually. For more info please go to www.selenatravel.com
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Each year the Mongols celebrate their Great Naadam Festival - one and only Mongolian sports festival. During the Opening Ceremony the special ritual of Genghis Khan's 9 White Banners takes place... More info found at the Naadam Festival tours page www.selenatravel.com
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Join Alex and Andrew as they travel to Mongolia, also known as the land of the blue skies and see what exactly there is to do in this beautiful and yet most sparsely populated country in the world. == Arriving in Arvaikheer, Alex & Andrew stumble unexpectedly onto a late Naadam Festival held in the town the next morning. One of the biggest festivals held in Mongolia, consisting of horse racing, wrestling and archery, it is definitely something that travellers should try to synchronise their travel plans towards in order to experience this event. Filmed with: Kodak Playsport ZX3 Soundtrack: "Price Tag" - Jessie J Ft. BOB "Cry Me a River" - Michael Buble "Paper Planes" - MIA "Ijii Mongol (Mother Mongolia)" - Altan Urag "Good Gone Girl" Mika
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UNESCO: Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity - 2010 URL: www.unesco.org Description: Naadam is a national festival celebrated every year from 11 to 13 July across Mongolia that focuses on three traditional games: horseracing, wrestling and archery. Mongolian Naadam is inseparably connected to the nomadic civilization of the Mongols, who have long practiced pastoralism on Central Asia's vast steppe. Oral traditions, performing arts, national cuisine, craftsmanship, and cultural forms such as long song, Khöömei overtone singing, Bie biyelgee dance and Morin khuur fiddle also feature prominently during Naadam. Mongolians follow special rituals and practices during the festival, such as wearing unique costumes and using distinctive tools and sporting items. Festival participants revere the sportsmen, sportswomen, and children who compete, and winners are rewarded titles for their achievements. Ritual praise songs and poems are dedicated to the contestants in the events. Everyone is allowed and encouraged to participate in Naadam, thus nurturing community involvement and togetherness. The three types of sports are directly linked with the lifestyles and living conditions of the Mongols and their transmission is traditionally undertaken through home-schooling by family members, although formalized training regimens have recently developed for wrestling and archery. The rituals and customs of Naadam also accentuate respect for nature and the ...
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Preview of Jamesandsonia's blog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Moron, Mongolia Entry Title: "Naadam Festival" Entry: "Despite being feeling rather bruised and battered, spirits the day after the accident were pretty high. It was a beautiful sunny day - really it was, that's not just my memory glossing over the bad bits - and we were still on the adrenalin high that comes with 'getting away with it'. The town of Moron plays host to the most famous of the Nadaam festivals and even some minor mechanical malfunctions were not going to prevent us from witnessing this incredible sight. Whilst football is also popular amongst the nomads, there are three other sports that really raise Mongolia's pulse. The significance of the three traditional sports can be traced back to the days of their rather colourful ancestors. Archery, horsemanship and wrestling were all seen as key strengths of your average Mongol warlord. And given that the Mongolians have just named our friend Genghis as 'Man of the Millennium' there is still clearly a lot of reverence for him and the good old days of rape and pillage. Of the three disciplines, archery is the only one with which we might be able to relate. Wrestling is similar to our own but major differences include the lack of a defined ring (any old piece of rocky ground will do), silly hats, eagle dances and the Mongolian ...
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Mongolia is full of unspoiled beauty and clean air. Its rich in culture, pageantry and history. Its Buddhist heritage is now reviving after decades of suppression. It has unique throat singing to teach the world. Almost half of its people live in the countryside following their herds from one pasture to another. All summer, they are busy sheering and milking, making cheese and yogurt. Once a year, in July, the whole country is involved in competitions that decide its best horses, archers and wrestlers during the colourful Naadam festivals. It welcomes visitors. Visit visualtraveltours.com for more information.
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Mongolian National Event Naadam Festival
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RADIO MONGOLIA-BULLSHIT.... ive been looking, theres wasnt one, so i put one up. radio mongolia played a lot of free festivals , squats and benefits.
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Sygyt ("whistle"), one the three main throatsinging styles
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Altan Urag is a folk rock and ethnic band that fuses traditional Mongolian sound with a contemporary influence. The name Altan Urag can be loosely translated to Khans Kin or Golden Blood Line, referring to Chinggis Khan and his ancestors. The bands vision is to promote Mongolian culture to the world and introduce traditional music to the young people of the Mongolia. The band has seven members whose skills lie in playing the morin khuur (horse head fiddle), ih khuur (grand horse head fiddle), percussion, bishguur (traditional horn) and yaichin. The vocalists are throat singers and long song singers and all were trained in traditional and classical Mongolian music. The band has released two albums, Foals Been Born an ethnic contemporary album (2004), and Made in Altan Urag, a folk-rock album (Sonor Records 2006). Four new albums will be released in early 2009, marking a culmination in a prolific phase in Altan Urags work. Blood (folk rock), Hypnotism (contemporary), Once Upon a Time in Mongolia (ethnic) and Nation (traditional folk) use the artists incredible skills to explore different genres of Altan Urags music and demonstrate their powerful and soulful sound.Altan Urag has produced the soundtrack for two international movies. The first soundtrack Mother Mongolia was produced for the movie Khadak (2006) directed by Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth and the second was Blue Marked Nation for the movie Mongol (2008) directed by Sergei Bodrov. Khadak and Mother Mongolia ...
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A Kazakh eagle hunter participating in this annual event in Bayan-Ulgii, Mongolia. Filmed on October 3, 2010.
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CROSSROADS Festival Krakow | ROZSTAJE - international forum of world music, folk, ethno, ethnojazz, roots and traditional music; one of the most important world music festivals in Poland and in middle-east part of Europe; open-air concerts on the main stage in Kraków's Main Market Square, chamber concerts, and music workshops in the CROSSROADS Festival Club. CROSSROADS Festival Krakow | ROZSTAJE - confrontation of international and Polish stages of world music, ethno-jazz, and ethno. Meeting at the CROSSROADS of different musical styles and genres: from traditional ones to fusions and experiments bordering on traditional and jazz, folk and rock, and classical music, taking inspiration in traditional motives. Programme of the CROSSROADS Festival is an alternative for the increasing unification of culture. Festival is also dedicated for everybody who is interested in music in its incommercial shape. The project aims at the promotion of the traditional music, world music, ethno and ethnojazz genres - in refer to other european and world cultures and regions and in refer to build tolerance and cultural identity in new modern Europe. Let's meet at the CROSSROADS. In KRAKOW. [recordings: CROSSROADS Festival Krakow 2011] *** for the last years at CROSSROADS Festival Krakow we have hosted: Dakha Brakha [Ukraine] * Moishes Bagel [Scotland] * Sedaa [Mongolia / Iran] * Dhafer Youssef Quartet [Tunis / Canada / USA / Poland] * Daniel Binelli [Argentina] * Gheorghe Zamfir [Romania ...
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Serchmaa Byamba is one of the most celebrated and internationally acclaimed Mongolian contortionist here in the United States. This video was taken in European Young Circus Artists Festival, Weisbaden Germany in 1992.
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The soloist of the Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien (Silvia Gelos, flute and Gustavo Balanesco, piano) play at the International Festival of Contemporary Music Mongolia (Amarbayasgalant Monastery, Mongolian National Museum, Burengiin nuruu mountain, Erdenee Zuu Monastery, Gobi Desert, Erdene Khamba monastery, Ulan Bator) Music: Walter Körte, Sonata for flute and piano (Silvia Gelos, flute & Gustavo Balanesco, piano) PIERROT LUNAIRE ENSEMBLE WIEN All Rights Reserved: Do NOT Copy, Download or Broadcast! more info: www.pierrotlunaire.at The Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien ® is an international appreciated ensemble founded in Vienna by the flutist Silvia Gelos and the pianist Gustavo Balanesco in order to counteract the discrepancy between the reality of the musical life on one side and the dreams of musicians on the other. The main aim of the ensemble is to offer distinctly different concert programs to audiences and at the same time widen its view and understanding of concerts. The discovery of new repertory Typically for this internationally castled soloist-ensemble is its innovative programmatic work and its self-accountable organizational structure. When Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien® produces international concerts it reserves considerable space for the classic works of the twentieth century. In order to develop these exchanges and progress beyond the stage of mere discovery, and with the purpose of developing cultural relations. Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien ® regularly ...
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Back in 1982 I wrote "In Mongolia" to perform at a Mongolian barbecue in Melbourne. The song is the story of an old Mongolian in exile reflecting on the days of the Tarbagan (tarbigan) Festivals of old. Recently I had the opportunity to perform "In Mongolia" in Mongolia with an old friend, Carmel, who has been working there. The tarbagan, or Siberian Marmot, is prized for its fur and for its fat, which will not freeze even in the coldest of Mongolian winters. Tarbagan hunters traditionally where white robes and special hats and dance around the tarbagan's hole. The creature is very curious, and is enticed out by any suggen change in gait or posture. It is then shot from 80 to 100 feet away. In order to obtain a perfect pelt, it must be shot in the ear. DISCLAIMERS Since writing the song, I have discovered the following: The tarbagan is now an endangered and protected species. Tarbagans hibernate in winter, so they are hunted in summer. There is no such thing as a "Tarbagan Festival", but there is a summer Nadam Festival.
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Councilmember Pete Constant and Youth Mongolian Wrestler match wits at the Tech Museum in Downtown San Jose. A dozen 300-pound Mongolian men skilled in the ancient art of folk wrestling took on a few brave special guests including San Jose Councilman Pete Constant and grapplers from the San Jose State University wrestling team. The colorful exhibition is the most important part of the Mongolian culture's historic "Three Manly Skills," that also includes horsemanship and archery, and plays a key role in their sacrificial rituals and festivals. The matches traditionally take place at the end of July or early August during the festival of Naadam, but The Tech Museum and Team San Jose are proud to host their very own wrestling match in the spirit of Genghis Khan, who is being featured as part of the museum's blockbuster Genghis Khan: The Exhibition. Second Secretary of the Embassy of Mongolia Dawadash Sambuu was on hand to share the rules and techniques to this skillful art while describing the traditional outfits that include the Jodag, Shuudang, and Gutal.
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