Want to get caught up in a cool free cultural event but don’t want to be updated on either the dates or the locations, because you are completely devoted to an extreme ideology of spontaneity? Okay, fine, your right, you weirdos. At least based on this summer’s statistics – your best chances are to just go and walk around Jaffa every single day.
Sorry for the strange introduction, this is simply our way of saying that this summer the municipality is organizing a really impressive number of cultural events throughout Jaffa, and the newest and most intriguing of them is the Arab music festival Arbit, which will take place in the city next weekend, between September 15 and 17 and will bring a large number of The ensembles, both modern, experimental and classical, will bring different interpretations of Arabic music to two stages in Old Jaffa every evening (starting at 20:00).
Among the creators and bands that will participate you can find Lina Mehul (former winner of the Israeli De Weiss), who makes Arab-international pop, Emily Shahada, a sound artist and drone music (minimalist and meditative music and a term that we usually meet more in the worlds of experimental metal – but which also has deep roots in music Arabic) in a special show that combines live music, traditional instruments and field recordings from Jaffa and Diwan Al Yemen, who play more traditional Yemeni music.
What more? Haifa’s electronic group Zenovia, which combines intense beats with a Syrian touch; The experimental group The Hallways, which also creates an experimental Arab drone, and the electronic group Ministry of Dubkey, which combines reggae, dubstep, Dakka, electronic music and traditional music. Hungry? There will be three food trucks serving Arabic cuisine near the nearby St. Peter’s Church.