The performance from the cowboy band Wylie & Wild West brings passion to the stage.

Apart from concerts, audiences also had the chance to learn about exotic musical instruments from all over the world.

Arriving at Shiqi Grassland Culture Park to join the gala and experience genuine folk music presented in a fashionable way became the way for locals to spend weekends over the past summer.

People of various ages gathered in the arena to cheer for bands from far away, though most had never been to a similar event and often could not even understand the language.

Wylie & Wild West, a cowboy band from Montana, had its first trip to China. When their melodic passion for the grasslands of their home encountered the ancient Mongolian throat singing skill khoomei on the same stage, the audience went wild for the joint performance.

Such moments－when music eliminated the barriers of language and national borders－became commonplace in Hohhot.

Organizers now plan to hold the event annually and build a cultural industry in Hohhot to turn the city into an international hub for World Music and the "Capital of World Music" in China. The effort will also further boost the development of related academic studies, said the Grassland Cultural Protection and Development Fund of Inner Mongolia.

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