Take a stroll in Historic Downtown Issaquah at the ArtWalk & Music Stroll, Saturday, June 10, from 5-8pm. Discover local treasures, shop handmade artisan gifts and listen to live music as Front Street is transformed into an avenue of live outdoor performances in Olde Town Issaquah. The Historically Hip Artisan Market will be front and center, along Front Street at 96 Front Street and Fischer Meats. Outside of Experience Tea, Chicago Pastrami, Historic Shell Station alongside a cooking demonstration (6-6:30pm) and special wood piercing demonstration. This event is free to everyone and family friendly. Tell us your downtown story! The Downtown Association will be running a Story Station, as part of Main Street Washington week, and we would love to hear your story and why you love the downtown, from 5-8pm. DIA will once again be partnering with Performing Arts Center Eastside (PACE) to bring more live music to Front Street.
Historically Hip Artisan Market
The Historically Hip Artisan Market will feature over 20 local artists: YanaYa Art, Woven Chains Jewels, Soulberry Coffee Roasters, Squak Mountain Studio, Glass by Sharona, Beannaigh Traditional Handknitting, Honey Beads Jewelry & Crafts, One son wood carvings, Maryla’s Treasures, Goddess Henna Tattoos, Designs by Lisa, Sweetlye Soap Shop, G & Me Studios, Bold In Clay, GlassArtography, Waterlillies Jewelry & Art, Art Escapes, Projects Petite Studio, WriteSpark Press, Emily H Taylor, Simply Scents & Things Llc, So There, Packing Penguins
Live Music – Music in the Streets
Kaleidoscope School of Music will feature the Issaquah Rock School at the Library Stage, with performances also by: Artists Without Barriers will feature three PACE artists:
Woodscreek Band will be playing at the Historic Shell Station 6-8pm
Eliza will be playing the flute at 96 Front Street stage 5-6pm, and Peter Ellis the cello at Chicago Pastrami, 5-6pm. Both are teachers at Downtown’s very own: Kaleidoscope School of Music.
Performing Arts Center Eastside Artist Bios:
Kimo Muraki is a Seattle based performer, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, composer, arranger, live and studio musician actively recording for major labels and independent artists. Muraki is currently, or has been, a contributing member for bands/artists such as: Fences, Super Sonic Soul Pimps, The Maldives, Shaprece, Surrealized (among others), and is a founding member of Marmalade, the longest running funk/soul weekly residency in the history of the Seattle music scene. Muraki performs in his own original projects as a composer/vocalist/multi-instrumentalist.
E Pruitt Bass Soloist, Clinician and Composer E.Pruitt is a Native of Kansas City and a Graduate of the Charlie Parker School for the Performing Arts. He’s a Winner of a number of Bass Awards, most recently Winning the “2018 Seattle Sound Music Awards” in the “Best Band” category. Playing a 6 String Performance Bass that in some cases mimics a Piccolo Bass, E’s Music would be considered Contemporary Jazz combined with Funk, R&B and a taste of Neo-Soul placing him in the company of Wayman Tisdale, Peter White, Gerald Veasley, Norman Brown and Meshell Ndegeocello. Without Music, Life is Meaningless.
Seattle-based songwriter, Billy Brandt, is an alley cat singer and steel-toed storyteller. Standing as the steam rises from the street’s sewer grate, this squinting-eyed, herring bone newsboy cap-wearing lyricist reports on what he sees: a melancholy and malleable city with bents equally toward invention and woebegone worries.
