Confluence Music Festival

The Downtown Issaquah Association is excited to announce the 7th Annual Confluence Music Festival. This five-hour music and art festival will feature local and internationally renowned musicians, bringing together a diverse audience at Confluence Park in beautiful downtown Issaquah. Grab your friends and come celebrate the festival of the summer. We cannot wait to see you there! This event is free.

Live Music, Food Trucks, Beer & Wine Garden, Artisans, and Plein Air Community Art Program.

Sunday, August 31, 2-7pm
Donations keep the festival community driven! DIA is a 501c3 non-profit organization.

* Parking is available at the La-z-boy lot. Please do not to park or walk through the Darigold lot.

Reserve your free tickets here

Confluence Music Festival 2025 Line Up

2pm – 3pm Joel Astley Band

Since forming his first band in 2014, Joel Astley quickly established himself as a world-class bandleader, harmonica player, singer, songwriter, and entertainer. In the past year he has been on a meteoric rise on the international Blues Music scene, joining Lee Oskar Harmonicas as a featured artist in 2023 and signing with Blue Heart Records to release his first album, Seattle to Greaseland. The album debuted August 18, 2023 at Number 7 on the Blues Billboard Top Ten, and met critical acclaim worldwide. He has since received the Silver Medal Award from the Global Music Awards, Honorable Mention in the 2024 International Songwriting Competition for his song Secondhand Kid, and is currently nominated for four 2024 Josie Awards, two 2024 Independent Blues Awards, and two 2024 Blues Blast Music Awards.

He has a strong Pacific Northwest following and has collected 23 Washington Blues Society’s “Best of the Blues” Awards in just seven years. Besides festival appearances and tour dates, he still plays local venues year-round and does session recording work; he has appeared on multiple recordings, and is currently working on songs for his next album.

An interesting side note: Joel Astley came to music after many years working in the visual arts. He is still an active visual artist; his paintings, prints, and drawings are in many private collections, and he has designed many album covers, including Quique Gomez and Little Charlie’s recent release, Cookin at Greaseland.

3:20pm – 4:20pm Lilla

Lilla delivers soulful vocals, rich grooves and a vibrant mix of funk, R&B, and storytelling.

4:40pm – 5:40pm Bobby Patterson Band

Bobby “Fat Tone” Patterson is a world-class guitarist, singer/songwriter, with drummer Ken Danielson, and bass man Randolph Knowles from Spokane, WA. The Bobby Patterson Band is honored to be the IEBS “Best Blues Band” with Bobby named “Best Blues Vocalist”, “Best Blues Guitarist”, and “Best Blues Entertainer”. BPB’s CD of Bobby’s originals, “All Along the Clocktower Live”, won Best Blues Album. BPB released “Blue Trailer Blues” for the Yuma Blues Festival 2019. WA Blues Society judged “ The Bobby Patterson Band “ and his Duo, “Robert and Randolph” as the 1st round winners for the Washington State Finals for the Int. Blues Challenge in Memphis.

6pm – 7pm Kevin Sutton & Jonathan Pitman