Ulaanbaatar
Playtime festival to open this evening
Art & Culture
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ Annual ‘Playtime’ festival will open this evening, 14 July at the Mongol Shiltgeen hotel in Gachuurt village of Ulaanbaatar. Founded in 2002, the festival has been organized as a non-profit live music festival. The festival takes place on summer weekend featuring best of new and established international and Mongolian live music bands and artists.
The festival had been postponed as the second round of the presidential election collided with its timing. Over the past fourteen years, the festival has presented more than 500 music groups and drawn 40.000 people to the festival. The festival has grown its scale from a local live music festival to an international festival since 2013 and presented headliner international music groups at the festival including Peter Hook & The Light (UK), The Pains of Being Pure at Heart (USA), Mono (Japan), Envy (Japan) and Mumiy Troll (Russia).The 2017 ‘Playtime’ ticket costs MNT 50 thousand for a three-day musical program.
B.Ooluun
