From Hovd Travel in Mongolia
Hovd Theater
The large, bright-red Hovd Theater is perhaps the aimag center’s easiest landmark to find, opposite the main square. It’s the home of the well-known “Altain Tsuurai”, a group that plays traditional Mongolian music. The theater keeps a busy schedule, and regularly hosts concerts, meetings, dance performances, and plays. It is also one of the premiere venues for seeing Khoomii performances (throat singing – which has it Mongolian roots in Chandmani soum of Hovd), as well as long song, and music played on the morin khuur, dombre, and other traditional instruments.
A Khoomii performance at the Hovd Theater on January 16th, 2009.
A father and son duo from Hovd's Chandmani soum. The Khoomii
portion of the performance starts at 00:23 on this video. For more
videos from this performance please follow this Khoomii link!
