Although I’ve performed in many different countries, performing in Mongolia was definitely one of the most special occasions. It was a festival in the desert! Although the festival wasn’t that great, which I’ll explain later, the beautiful landscape of Mongolia was worth the trip.
Mongolia
When the booking request came in, I was on holiday in Bali, which is not really in the neighborhood! It was a twelve-hour flight trip (and I fell asleep at the airport, which made me almost miss my plane), but it was definitely worth it.
Mongolia is a unique place. It has the fewest people per square kilometer on the entire globe. The vast majority of Mongolia is grassland steppe, with mountains on the north and west sides and the Gobi Desert to the south. About half of the population lives in Ulaanbaatar, the nation’s capital and largest city.
Most of the times when I have a show there isn’t any time to wander around. But luckily, I had time to do some sightseeing.
The Gobi Desert
The Festival
So then it was time to perform at the festival.
Obviously it’s not easy to arrange an entire festival for thousands of people in the desert.
But the show production was far from finished. The stage wasn’t even finished which made it quite dangerous to perform there!
The parts of the stage were being held together with rope and duct tape, yikes!
And the worst part of all was that the artist before me finished 30 minutes too early. So there wasn’t any music for a while when I had to go on stage so almost everybody had already left when I had to start playing. Ah well, it was a nice trip.
