Candice Hoyes: Expecting album release w/ special guest Nicholas Ryan Gant
Joe's Pub425 Lafayette Street, New York 10003
Candice Hoyes marks the release of Expecting at Joe’s Pub, with Nicholas Ryan Gant billed as a special guest. Hoyes is presented as the evening’s featured vocalist and composer; no further lineup or performing formation is specified. The show centers on Expecting, her album whose songs move among spiritual jazz, soul and R&B, with Gant joining the occasion in a guest role.
Born to Jamaican parents, Hoyes is a singer, songwriter, producer and archivist whose work, as NPR puts it, brings “Black history into the present.” The National Jazz Museum describes her as an artist celebrating “timeless stories of resilience,” while Vogue has praised her “chill-inducing range.” Her Expecting collaborators include Makaya McCraven, Junius Paul, Sullivan Fortner, Casey Benjamin, Keyon Harrold, Brandee Younger and Nicholas Ryan Gant. Hoyes has also opened for Chaka Khan, Lalah Hathaway and Lin-Manuel Miranda. On the record, she is credited on vocals and, for “Zora’s Moon,” sampler.
The stage is set in a converted library space with a striped bar and photos of legends like Leonard Cohen and Amy Winehouse lining the walls. You'll find yourself seated on velvet couches or at candle-lit tables, close enough to hear every note from the back. The sound, engineered by technicians who've worked with John Legend and The Notorious B.I.G., is consistently ranked among the best in New York. Three shows a day, dinner and drinks served throughout, and a menu ranging from Italian small plates to craft cocktails; it's a place where music and conversation flow together, and where both rising stars and legends have made their U.S. debuts.