Mongolia will hold a major folk art festival in its southern province of Dundgovi on 9-11 August to attract more tourists.

Under the auspices of the Mongolian Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports, the Dundgovi is organising a traditional folk art festival called ‘The Sun Over the Placid World’ at an open-air theater in the Ikh Gazriin Chuluu, which is a granite rock mountain range in the Gurvansaikhan (Three Beauties) district of the province.

A total of 3,000 traditional long song singers and players of the morin khuur also known as the horse-headed-fiddle, a traditional Mongolian bowed stringed instrument, from Dundgovi are expected to attend the festival, according to an official.

Dundgovi is located in the south of the country about 240 km from the capital city of Ulaanbaatar. The province is nicknamed “the land of songs and music” because many famous Mongolian singers come from the province.