Band gives Inner Mongolian music a global stage

More than 10,000 kilometers from the grasslands of Inner Mongolia autonomous region, nine young Chinese musicians sing about their happy, carefree lives at the Kennedy Center in Washington. Anda Union is made up of seven men and two women, all from Mongolian ethnic minority. The band is considered one of the most successful Chinese ethnic minority bands to have gone global.

"We want to bring the Mongolian culture to a broader stage," says the band's lead Narisu.

Anda, which means sworn brothers in the Mongolian language, was formed in 2003. There are two singers, Qeqegma and Bilgbagatur, while the other members play traditional Mongolian instruments, including the horse-head fiddle, flute and a three-stringed instrument called sanxian. Their music also contains a unique style of throat singing.