The Hill Street Country Club presents Joy Guidry’s Amen Tour

October 21, 2024 | 6:30 PM

Oceanside Theatre Company At The Brooks
217 North Coast Highway, Oceanside, CA

The Hill Street Country Club presents Sound & Liberation with Joy Guidry and special guest DJ.

Bassoonist and composer Joy Guidry performs her album AMEN, experimenting with various forms of southern Black American music, from jazz to gospel and ambient.

AMEN is the 3rd release by bassoonist/composer/producer Joy Guidry. The conception of this album came from many talks with Joy’s ancestors, and it turned into an eight-track project. Amen meets at the intersection of many subjects in music, gender, sexuality, and Blackness. Joy approached this album from her own lived experience as a Black transwoman who was raised in Houston, Texas, and southwestern Louisiana. This project experiments with different southern Black American music forms, such as Jazz, Gospel, and ambient music. This project was created to provide her peace, warmth, community, and release for this chapter of her life. This performance features Joy on Bassoon, electronics, voice, and poetry with support from Scott Li on violin and synth and Mekala sessions on percussion.

Here’s Joy's bio:

Joy Guidry is a bassoonist, versatile improviser, performance artist, and composer of experimental, daring new works that embody a deep love of storytelling; Joy’s music channels their inner child in honor of their ancestors and predecessors. The San Diego Tribune has hailed their performances as “lyrical and haunting…hair-raising and unsettling.” Joy was born in Houston, Texas, into a creative family that has shaped who she is today. Joy holds a bachelor’s degree in Bassoon Performance from the Peabody Conservatory and a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Mannes School of Music. She has presented her original work at The Whitney Museum for American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Kitchen, Redcat, among many other venues. Joy has been commissioned by The National Sawdust, Long Beach Opera, JACK Quartet, Gaudeamus Festival, and the I&I Foundation. Joy has been featured in festivals, including the La Biennale di Venezia, A’Larme Festival, Cologne Jazz Week, Spoleto Festival USA, Big Ears Festival,and many more. In addition, Joy Guidry is the winner of the 2021 Berlin Prize for Young Artists. Joy Is currently playing on a Hekel Bassoon number 6101.

RYAN MANALILI - LISTENING PARTY

Saturday, August 3, 2024 | 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Join us for the live release of Ryan Manalili's new EP - HALF FULL with a live band. Ryan uses R&B vocals with an experimental indie sound.

“ I chose “HALF FULL” for the name of the EP because at the time I started putting together the record I was experiencing a lot of loss and grief. This feeling of excess weight that I felt I needed to pour out in order to feel back to “normal” again. Realizing that the weight will always be there, it was just about learning to embrace it and learn how to deal with it. I looked at it like it was a glass overflowing with water, and the water needed to be poured out over time. “

I asked two artists join me for this show, Nino and GONE. Both of which saw this project from the beginning to the end. The music they make/play compliment the record's theme, which is just a plus. 

• Saturday, August 3, 2024

• 6:00 PM 10:00 PM

• The Hill Street Country Club Gallery530 South Coast HighwayOceanside, CA, 92054

Black History Month SOUND & LIBERATION

Sunday, February 25, 2024 | 6:00 PM | All Ages

Join us at the Hill Street Country Club on Sunday, February 25th for SOUND & LIBERATION, a night of experimental performance celebrating Black expression. We're thrilled to host an evening of Black ambient artist with live music from Joy Guidry, Niecy Blues and Myles Ortiz-Green. Goldie will kick off the evening with vinyl accompaniment. Our gallery will be transformed into a moody lounge, inviting guests to immerse themselves in poetic atmospheres sculpted in sound, drawing from traditions of jazz, gospel, and R&B.

Come join us for an evening of sonic exploration and cultural celebration!

-HSCC Team

Light refreshments including snacks, beer, wine, and mocktails will be available. This is an all ages event

Listening Party with Dezzy Hollow

Friday, January 12th 2024

COST: 10.00 | All Ages | Doors open at 6:00PM

Caught In The Funk is a listening party hosted by music artist Dezzy Hollow, featuring performances with live band + new music video

Sound & Liberation

Next Event:
JUne 2nd
via ig + FB live

Mark your calendars because ✨Sound + Liberation✨ is BACK with the extraordinary talent of @kadriwilliams Friday, June 2nd from 6:30 - 10pm 🎶🎮👾

➠ RSVP NOW via the link in our bio to join in-person at the HSCC -OR- enjoy the show virtually on our IG LIVE‼️

⫸ Kadri Williams is a singer, producer, guitarist, bassist, and illustrator who has been experimenting with his sound and message of “radical vocalness, liberation, and the joy of being able to really explore your emotions and stories that are told thru music”. Williams began releasing music in 2018 online, both through Spotify and Soundcloud where he garnered over 1 million streams in just his first year!

⫸ Like many of us since the pandemic, Kadri has been working silently on a journey of reestablishing his principles, values, and sound in order to deliver a more intentional and true representation of his personal message. When asked about his style of music, he said he doesn’t connect to one genre but could say he’s been heavily inspired by listening to his father’s soul records with his family as a child, and the virtual world of anime, sega dreamcast, and Sonic the Hedgehog video game which iconically covers many genres, including electronic, pop, funk, rock, hip hop and orchestral.

✧ ABOUT S+L ✧

Sound + Liberation is a FREE live performance series that encourages a more involved and intimate experience with an intentional transfer of energy between the artist and their audience. Williams will guide viewers through his artistic process and share his thoughts on utilizing music as a mechanism for self-expression and liberation!

⫸ We can’t wait to see you all Next Friday virtually or in-person as Kadri Williams invites us “into his room” as he shares new and unreleased music, from the archives. Doors open at 6:30, show starts at 7pm.

SOFT U: part 1

The HSCC + Alan Lili come together with intention once again to curate the cozy, therapeutic, and intimate atmosphere that is Soft U. This acoustic performance will be graciously hosted by our friends at Libelula Books in Barrio Logan.

Art is a personal, communal, and universal mechanism for healing. Soft U is an IG live concert and community art talk that gives the viewer an opportunity to connect with local musicians. Join us as Alan curates and hosts an evening of live music from local artists as they personally guides us through their artistic process and thoughts on music as a mechanism for healing.

We look forward to sharing stories and giving our Live viewers a raw, vulnerable, and inspirational experience with Soft U.

SOFT U: part 2

December 2nd, 2021
Hosted by Libelula Book store featuring Alan Lili, Sarayu, Charity Joy Brown & Tulengua