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.