{"id":1371,"date":"2013-03-15T14:52:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T14:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2ndcupoftea.com\/?p=1371"},"modified":"2013-03-15T18:51:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:51:13","slug":"live-from-ub-mongolian-rock-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2ndcupoftea.com\/?p=1371","title":{"rendered":"LIVE From UB – Mongolian Rock Anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year I spent two months volunteering in Mongolia.<\/p>\n

Many of you have since heard the tales and seen and marvelled at the pictures. Of the incredible array of experiences that little known country had in store, no doubt a highlight was travelling North to the ‘Worlds’ Most Remote People’ the Tsaatan reindeer herders of Siberia.<\/p>\n

This trip was made possible thanks to a young, incredibly talented film maker, Lauren Knapp, in Mongolia working for MTV.<\/p>\n

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Lauren Knapp, Filming For LIVE in UB, 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

We travelled through temperatures as low as minus -48 Celcius, through a landscape so vast and almost haunting it defied belief. In the end we found what we were looking for, an old lady still capable of singing in a style few can these days. Lauren had her film.<\/p>\n

Before the snows melted, I was back in Europe, touring, but Lauren stayed and pursued her quest to document the surprisingly alive and vibrant Mongolian Rock Scene.<\/p>\n

Through the talented voices of these bands and interviews with experts,\u00a0LIVE FROM UB\u00a0explores what it means to be Mongolian today and how Mongolians express that identity through music.<\/i><\/p>\n