Music

• Historically, festival kicks off on Friday night with a performance by the Washington Symphony Orchestra starting at 8 pm.
• Then on the main stage at the Main Street Pavilion, musicians perform beginning at noon, and all day and night until 10 pm Saturday.

Friday, July 11, 2025

• 7 pm - Friday's music lineup starts with Dominque Theodore singing the National Anthem.
• 8-930 pm - The Washington Symphony performs in the Main Street Community Pavilion.
• The food trucks and Blue Eagle Tavern will be open!

For more information on the Symphony contact Cassandra Muhr, General Manager, (o) 412-512-1662, washsymgm@gmail.com | info@washsym.org.

Saturday, July 12, 2025

Saturday's music lineup is compete. More details to come but everyone is booked!

12:30 MVAA Fife and Drum Band

1:30 Dan Baker

2:30 Wolf Tones

4:30 Knob Road

6:30 Amanda Fish

8:00 The Commonheart

Saturday, July 12, 2025

MVAA Fife & Drum Band will not only be in the history march at noon, but they will take the main stage at 12:30 pm on Saturday, July 12th to kick off our music lineup! Mon Valley Academy for the Arts, Inc.

Dan Baker performs unique instrumental guitar arrangements of songs ranging from John Coltrane to John Mayer. He earned a BFA in Music Performance from The New School and attended Graduate Studies at New York University. Dan is currently based out of his hometown of Washington PA.

Wolf Tones are a four-piece hurricane of brain-bending bluegrass out of Pittsburgh. Blending a love of old-school ‘grass with some heady jamming and a penchant for exploring a wide variety of genres, The Wolf Tones always put on a high-energy show. Bill Monroe? Flatt & Scruggs? Peter Tosh? Prince? All in a night’s work for your favorite bluegrass band without opposable thumbs — The Wolf Tones. The band: Joe Dep, banjo; Dave Nemo, bass; Archie Cortez, mandolin; Patrick Varine, guitar.

Knob Road. SWPA Outlaw Country/Southern Rock Music Band performs music hits from the 60's,70's and 80’s. Knob Road consist of 6 members who are Mike Triplett (lead vocals) formerly of Southern Discomfort and The Toast Band , Dave Hixon (guitar and vocals), Mark Knapp (drums) , Tom Hollowood (bass and vocals), Reese Slater (lead guitar and harmonica) and Joe Laabs who is our full time soundman. All 6 Knob Road band members are very well seasoned members each having multiple years of experience in performing with live bands.

Amanda Fish's music has been described as "a from-the-gut vocals belting out impassioned lyrics over swampy guitar and rock-heavy drums, with a driving bassline that locks in a groove the audience can't help but dance to" and it currently has more than 220k streams on Spotify, with over 4k monthly listeners worldwide and growing.

The Commonheart.'s latest album, Pressure, is both rugged and refined. The 10-song album showcases raw-nerve soul musicianship pristinely recorded. The opening track boasts soulful sandpaper-y lead vocals, swoops of cosmic slide guitar, a driving Sly Stone groove, and rousing female backup vocals. It’s an up-against-a-wall tune about making a living while raising a family, and it speaks to the album’s title. The bluesy ballad title track, replete with pleading emotive vocals, drips yearning and melancholy redemption. “That’s about the daily grind—what it takes to maintain important relationships while you’re away from home, driving thousands of miles in van to pursue a dream,” Clinton confesses. A spirit of a new-day optimism courses through the aptly titled “Different Man.” The song soars with stirring group backup vocals punctuated by Clinton’s vulnerable confessions. It’s a rousing and uplifting slice of R&B brimming with warm organs, clipped soul-guitar chanks, and triumphant horn melodies. “That song is about begging for a second chance, and building something beautiful after a sordid past,” Clinton reveals. Pressure is an album by a band on a mission. “We are willing to take risks and to go at any lengths for this band,” Clinton says affirmatively. “We are ready to spread positivity and make a stretch of this thing.”

Knob Road