Kaveret’s ‘sold out’ J’lem shows aren’t
Tickets held back for all three Sultan’s Pool gigs, for buyers who purchase seats at other Israel Festival events
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Beloved Israeli rock band Kaveret’s “sold out” Jerusalem shows aren’t actually sold out after all; tickets for all three of the group’s comeback performances at the open-air Sultan’s Pool were still available as of this writing on Thursday afternoon — albeit with a minor catch.
An undisclosed number of tickets for each of the shows — on June 19, 20 and 22 — were held back by the organizers of the Israel Festival. They were being offered for sale, provided that buyers also bought tickets for other Israel Festival events.
The Israel Festival website stated that would-be purchasers must buy tickets for Kaveret as part of “a package” including tickets for at least one other Festival performance.
Promoters announced that all tickets for the first two Kaveret shows in Jerusalem sold out within hours last month, prompting the addition of a third show. After that, too, sold out, the band agreed to a fourth show — in Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park. Tickets for that show went on sale on Wednesday evening, and all 45,000 tickets were reported to have been snapped up by Thursday morning.
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.”
This summer’s 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.
Gavriel Fiske and Jessica Steinberg contributed to this report.
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