Wayfaring Stranger Mongolian Throat Cover

[Free2Speed]

Maybe bluegrass has some Mongolian roots...

[Barry Wilson]

I thought oh no as I clicked the thread but this is really cool

[Free2Speed]

My son and I are working on this tune and I was explaining that the song seemed really old with it's simplicity and timing. This led to a discussion of the how we experience western music and then checking the internet for different cultural musical experiences. Then we stumbled on Mongolian throat musicians and then throat musicians covering Wayfaring Stranger. The internet is awesome!

[F-2 Dave]

Very cool. Good music is good music.

[JEStanek]

I think folk music mash ups are just the best.

Jamie

[BJ O'Day]

Huh,
A two stringed bowed instrument and a 2 string plucked instrument. I wonder if they think a mandolin is extravagant. Thanks for the post.
BJ

[DHopkins]

That's cool. Also, that's the biggest lap dulcimer I ever seen. It needed it's own stand.

[Bob Clark]

Very cool. Good music is good music.

Amen, Brother! This video proves it.

[Free2Speed]

There is another lap dulcimer behind her. I was wondering if she changes them out to switch keys.

[JEStanek]

I think that's called a guzheng. Depends on the total number of strings.

Jamie

[Josh Levine]

This is many parts of somethin'

[Bslot0622]

The bowed instrument is called a morin khuur, referred to as the horse-head fiddle, the two string plectrum instrument is called a tobshuur, and the guzheng like instrument is the yatga. A group of Mongolian students played at University of Vermont while I was taking a music theory course and we got to meet them and some of them let us try their instruments. The yatga player had a plectrum "taped" to her thumb, much like a standard thumb pick, and her three-finger style reminded me a lot of the banjo.

[mtm]

that was brilliant ...

I like how the one gent came in with the vocal a bit early at 2:36mins ... the morin khuur player gives him a look and there are a couple of smiles, and I do believe he has a "yep, I blew it" look on his face....

Music unites ... perhaps politicians should be made to carry an instrument of some kind... I think they'd get along a bit better....

[KEB]

If you guys haven't seen Genghis Blues, it's a tremendous movie that I'd really highly recommend. The movie tells the story of a blind blues singer, Paul Pena (The guy who wrote Jet Airliner) who taught himself throat singing and traveled to Tuva to compete in their national contest-- very cool film.

[John Flynn]

What's so impressive about that video is the blend. The Asian players seemed to really "get" what the tune needs and provided it in their own unique way. Other than the throat singing, which I liked a lot BTW, if I heard that tune without seeing the video, I would have said, "That's a great rendition of that tune. There's something different about it, but I'm not sure what it is." I would never have said, "Oh, Wayfaring Stranger with Asian instruments."

[JKA]

Maybe bluegrass has some Mongolian roots...

I don't know why but that got me a little emotional. I love Tuvan throat music anyway but have never heard western music sung this way

I think the reason it chokes me up is seeing the pleasure and enjoyment that's on the faces of the musicians.

Thank you for posting, it was delightful

Keith

[stevedenver]

Way cool
No problem however with Where's Waldo?..........LOL