IndieNegev marks 20 years with a full-scale October edition

The IndieNegev festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a three-day event from October 15 to 17 at Mitzpe Gvulot. On Sunday, the first lineup was unveiled, showing about 80 performances out of roughly 120 expected acts. Among the announced artists are Ehud Banai, Rita, Monica Sex, Alma Gov, Nunu, Peled, Lola Marsh and Tamir Bar.

The bill also includes Bno Hendler and the Dub Refugees, Omri Smadar, Maor Cohen, Yishai Sweissa, Duda, Shazamat, Vaytecharti, Efrat Ben Zur, Idiot!, Nir Knaan, Asulin, Daniela Specter, Hashmuaot, the Ramirez Brothers, Shai, Tomer Yeshayahu, Maor, Sol Monk, Bobaz Lobster, Malox, Eden Derso, Ohana, Ziv, Tzukush, Gon Ben Ari and the Zulat Choir. A special performance titled "Aviv Mark Lanetzach" will feature Yehli Sobol, Yuval Mendelson, Or Adri, Ram Orion and Hagai Peretzman.

After returning to Mitzpe Gvulot in November 2025 in a reduced format that sold out in advance, the festival is coming back this year in its full version. In addition to five music stages, it will include the Adama area for talks, meetings, film screenings and artist workshops, plus a children’s area, exhibitions and installations.

This year’s artistic theme is "The Other," and it will explore breaking apart and rebuilding Israeli reality through the work of creators and visual artists. Tickets will cost between 490 and 570 shekels. Artistic director and chief producer Asaf Ben David said the team was "very excited" to return in full form, calling the November 2025 edition "perhaps the most special and meaningful event we have ever held" and saying the festival’s absence over the past two years had been deeply felt.