Tel Aviv from Sand to Rock

Concerts:
April 26, 2009 (Berkeley)
May 6, 2009 (Stanford)

Dance Parties:
April 28, 2009 (Davis)
April 29, 2009 (San Francisco)
April 29, 2009 (Santa Cruz)
May 3, 2009 (Los Gatos, part of Silicon Valley Celebrates Israel!)

The Israel Center and YaRock band present a musical journey celebrating The First Hebrew City’s first hundred years of music. The special program consists of Tel Aviv songs (by Naomi Shemer, Shlomo Artzi, Yoni Rechter, HaDag Nahash, Aris San, Ehud Manor, Danny Robas, Eifo HaYeled & many more) as well as poems set to music by Nathan Alterman, Meir Wieseltier, A. Hillel, Chaim Guri, and others.

All the songs, from classics to contemporary, are re-imagined for this musical show, and are performed in Hebrew and English translation.

Listen to a medley of the recent performance in San Francisco.

View the online photo album from previous shows.

Compiled, translated and directed by Donny Inbar, re-imagined and performed by Lee Ganor, Yoram Zarfaty, YaRock band and guest musicians. Among the songs in the program are:

בכל זאת יש בה משהו	— And Still There is This Something There
העיר הלבנה	— A City Dressed in White
נמה יפו	— Yafo is Dreaming
מי יבנה בית בתל אביב	— Who Will Build Houses in Tel Aviv
לא עוזב את העיר	— I am Not Leaving Town
השוטר אזולאי	— The Policeman
זוהי יפו	— This is Yafo
תל אביב תל אביב	— Tel Aviv Tel Aviv
על גגות תל אביב	— Tel Aviv on the Roof
יש לי סימפטיה	— I Kind of Like It
הנה אני בא	— Here I Come
גן השקמים	— Sycamore Trees
לא נרדמת תל אביב	— Never Sleeping Tel Aviv
ערב עירוני	— Urban Evening
דוד שמש ואנטנה	— Boiler and Antenna
פנס בודד	— A Lonely Streetlamp
חנה'לה התבלבלה	— Hanale, She Got Confuse

And many more classics...

Concert Schedule:

Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 7:30 pm

UC Berkeley
Wheeler Auditorium - map


Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 7:30 pm

Stanford University
Dinkelspiel Auditorium - map

All concerts and dance parties are free of charge!

Additional Dance Parties:

Tuesday, April 28, 2009 - 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

UC Davis
exact location TBA


Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 11:00 am - 1:00 pm

San Francisco State University
Malcolm X Plaza


Wednesday, April 29, 2009 - 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

UC Santa Cruz
Stevenson Event Center
Stevenson College
1156 High Street, Santa Cruz - map


Sunday, May 3, 2009 - 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

JCC of Silicon Valley
14855 Oka Rd., Los Gatos - map