Mike's Place Artists

SOBO D9 Barry Gilbert 4WD Yoni Beynoni Exentra Dov Hammer SOBO Sammy Blues Train CG and the Hammer The Mercy Band Remedy Mark Rashkow Blues Band Yood Power Rock Trio Guy 'The Rye' Dagan Overtone The Heeby Gee Bees haMakor Liquid Jane Da Good Vibrations

Mike's Place started having Live Music daily fourteen years ago.

We started with daring local musicians who were itching for a gig.

Back then there really was no place to play the Blues, Rock or anything else in English.

Out of necessity we started to introduce Guitarists to Singers and then to Bass players and Drummers just so we could create bands and have Live Music seven days a week, BTW thats how the Jam session got started.

Being a blues man in Israel I quickly realized there is a shortage of places to play and the places you do play don't treat you right.

I'm not talking about pay but rather attitude.

While playing with my band SOBO in Tel Aviv I was always greatly disappointed and decided that I must educate these people and show them how to do it right.

When Mike's Place opened in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv there were hardly any English music venues to speak of, and No bands to play in them.

Well supply and demand worked its magic and slowly but surely bands started coming out of the woodwork.

I guess finally having a place to play made these people get their act together.

Today although we try, we can hardly fit all the bands that want to play and again supply and demand, there are many places that have Live Music daily.

I'm proud that Mike's Place was able to lead the way in this field witch is so dear to me.