In an age when there was no Internet, YouTube and Spotify, Neve Shanan Street in the old central station in Tel Aviv, was the place from which the new gospel in music came. Electrifying sounds packed in plastic boxes, which reached every home in Israel. Singers and bands that were not heard anywhere else, received a place of honor and a lot of love at the central station in Tel Aviv, and the people of Israel flocked to the Neve Shaanan neighborhood to purchase the cassettes, which became assets of the Iron Sheep in Israeli culture and the Hebrew singer. Those who bought 3 cassettes also received a free belt. What is the connection between a cassette and a belt? There is no connection. But that’s how it was in those days. Cassettes and leather belts. Whoever won – remembers. Or maybe whoever remembers – won.
Yishai Levy will perform at the 2022 Tslili Shanan Festival (Photo: Aran Chen)The Municipality of Tel Aviv-Yafo is paying tribute to the cassette music that flourished in the Neve Shanan neighborhood at an event that will take place this Thursday, December 1, along Gra Street. For one evening, the street will be closed to traffic and a festive street party will be hosted there with a variety of music performances that correspond with the rich cultural history of the neighborhood. The event Pays tribute to the cassette singers who were mainly played in the old central station in the city and became a revolutionary cultural phenomenon.
Among the live performances and artists that will appear at the festival: Liron Amram and the Panthers We host the greats of the eastern singer Yishai Levi and Avner Gedsi for a celebration of eastern punk-rock-n-roll, Rif Cohen In a new show “Hole in the Heart” following her new album with original music in the Persian, Turkish, Iraqi, Moroccan and Algerian style of the nineties, Denin sound With the new album “Hungry and Nervous” on the seam between mournful oriental ballads, pop songs and edgy hip-hop and the multitude of connections she makes between East and West, between her roots and now, Audi Sabri In Hefala, a tribute to the 80s that will make you smile, Authenticis In celebration of Greek music. Reception desks and booths throughout the festival and more.
Avner Gedsi will perform at the Neve Shanan Festival 2022 (Photo: Ilan Porat)
The sound of Danin (Photo: Yordan Rokah)Ron Huldai, Mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo: “Tel Aviv-Jaffa invests a huge amount of its budget and efforts to promote Israeli creation. The cassette music that grew in the Neve Shanan neighborhood in our city changed the face of Israeli music, constituted an important struggle for the promotion of equality and laid the foundations for the popular eastern music today. They say that music is the best time machine that exists , and as such, it has the ability to take us to times and regions we’ve been in, or ones we’d like to experience or visit again. I’m happy and proud to invite the general public to visit the neighborhood as part of the Shanan Sounds Festival, enjoy the feeling of nostalgia and be exposed to its cultural richness.”
Tzuli Shanan Festival. Thursday, December 1, 2022, starting at 7:00 p.m., along Gra Street. The entrance is free. More information on the municipality’s website