Due to demand, legendary 70s band Kaveret adds TA show

Seventies-era Israeli rock band Kaveret (the name means “beehive” in Hebrew) released three seminal albums from 1973 to 1975, and its 1976 breakup spawned the careers of rock mainstays Danny Sanderson, Gidi Gov and Yoni Rechter. It was also one of the first Israeli rock acts to tour worldwide, for which it adopted the name “Poogy.”

Now, in 2013, Kaveret has still got it. After two June reunion shows for the Israel Festival in Jerusalem quickly sold out, a third show was added. But that, too, sold out within hours. On Wednesday, the band bowed to public pressure and announced it would play a large, open-air reunion concert on August 8 in Yarkon Park in Tel Aviv.

The concerts mark 40 years since the seven-man band, most of whose members met while in the IDF, released its landmark first album “Sipurei Poogy” (Poogy Stories). Kaveret has performed occasional reunion gigs, notably in 1984 and 1990 for summer concerts, and again in 1998, Israel’s jubilee year.

Tickets for the August 8 concert, which cost NIS 240-450, go on sale Wednesday at 7 p.m. and are not expected to last long.

Jessica Steinberg contributed to this report.