Adia Victoria

Newport Folk Festival

⚠️⚠️ Been sitting on this one for second, but I’m so proud to announce that the guys and I will be taking the stage at Newport Folk Festival in July! This is a dream come true for us. We’ve partnered with the festival and Jessi Zazu, Inc. to raise funds for the late Jessi Zazu’s foundation for youth arts education, women’s health and social justice initiatives. Aside from bringing y’all the blues, we are working to keep the legacy of Jessi Zazu alive and well! 💕 #nffmusiceducation #newportfolkfestival2019 #dopequeentour 📷: Shervin Lainez

ayyye—starting next week the boys and i are headed through the deep south to bring y’all them dope blues. * * * * 05.01 - The Grouse Room - Lafayette, LA 05.03 - Stickyz Rock N' Roll Chicken Shack - Little Rock, AR 05.04 - Proud Larry's - Oxford, MS 05.06 - Gasa Gasa - New Orleans, LA 05.07 - Soul Kitchen - Mobile, AL 05.08 - The EARL - Atlanta, GA 05.09 - Saturn Birmingham - Birmingham, AL * * * * y’all knew i was bound to come back through. grab tickets at adiavictoria.com and don’t miss us next month when we head out for a few dates opening for Tank and the Bangas we finna hold church, y’all. come get ya blessing.✨🙏🏽

ayyye—starting next week the boys and i are headed through the deep south to bring y’all them dope blues. * * * * * LAFAYETTE. LITTLE ROCK. MOBILE. OXFORD. NEW ORLEANS. ATL. * * * y’all knew i was bound to come back through. grab tickets at adiavictoria.com and don’t miss us next month when we head out for a few dates opening for @tankandthebangas we finna hold church, y’all. come get ya blessing.✨🙏🏽 📷: @photojq

80 years ago Billie Holiday recorded “Strange Fruit” At the time of its recording, the South was attempting to downplay the brutal legacy of slavery and the rise of Jim Crow in its wake. It relied on literature and media steeped in pastoral imagery of a peaceful, simplistic region to color the public’s perception of the South. Strange Fruit lances a blade through the propaganda and uses the pastoral technique to highlight the truth of lynching, of black bodies swinging in the southern breeze. It is as timely today in 2019 as when Lady Day first sang it. This is art at its most potent—when it speaks truth to the face of awesome, abusive power. We continue to do the work of bearing witness to this Strange Fruit. x AV

80 years ago Billie Holiday recorded “Strange Fruit” At the time of its recording, the South was attempting to downplay the brutal legacy of slavery and the rise of Jim Crow in its wake. It relied on literature and media steeped in pastoral imagery of a peaceful, simplistic region to color the public’s perception of the South. Strange Fruit lances a blade through the propaganda and uses the pastoral technique to highlight the truth of lynching, of black bodies swinging in the southern breeze. It is as timely today in 2019 as when Lady Day first sang it. This is art at its most potent—when it speaks truth to the face of awesome, abusive power. We continue to do the work of bearing witness to this Strange Fruit.

the squad stay fresh, y’all, the squad stay C L E A N👌🏽 ✨ 📷: @nolanknight_

A few additional stops added to the Dope Queen Tour. Grab your tickets, tell your friends and we’ll see y'all there! ✨✨ Tickets and more info at AdiaVictoria.com

Minneapolis, the fellas and I will be swinging back through and bringing the blues to your town for Rock the Garden! Grab your tickets, tell your friends and we’ll see yall there! ✨🗣✨ adiavictoria.com

yeah im the one with no soul. 🖤

thanks for having me and the fellas in the studio, WFUV Public Radio & Rita Houston

The Dope Queen Tour is swinging down south and back up the east coast. Find your city. Tell ya friends. ⚡️⚡️ Tickets on sale NOW at AdiaVictoria.com

* * * it is not exhausted. it is not exhausted. it is not exhausted. it is not exhausted. it is not exhausted. it is not exhausted. it is not exhausted. it is not exhausted. it is not exhausted. it is not exhausted. it is not exhausted. it is not exhausted. it is not exhausted. it is not exhausted. it is not exhausted. it is not exhausted. 📷: @32memories

“if u wanna fly u gotta let go of the shit holding u down.” - toni morrison #dopequeentour #silences 📷 Susana Martins

im out on the road in europe but received news from back home that y’all have my new single “Different Kind of Love” charting on AAA radio! ✨✨ thank u to all the stations spinning this record! y’all got a girl out here on tour feeling all the love ! 🖤🖤 Berlin, see y’all tomorrow night at Auster Club

i don’t want no man hunting after me. paris, thank u for last night. amsterdam, see y’all tonight at Cinetol we’re on at 20h30 🌹 #dopequeentour #southerngoth #silences #reclaimingtheblues 📷: Charlotte Wensierski

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For #worldpoetryday i would like to share a poem with you guys. written in the voice of a black woman navigating the Jim Crow-era Delta—she is unpropertied, unprotected and wholly unmastered. i was moved to bring this woman life alongside my sisters of the Blair House Collective, Caroline Randall Williams and Ciona Rouse together we are writing to keep these voices alive. her name is rosie. i can’t wait to continue to share her story with you. 🌹

“Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one. * * * To be able to recognize a freak, you have to have some conception of the whole man, and in the South the general conception of man is still, in the main, theological. * * * That is a large statement, and it is dangerous to make it, for almost anything you say about Southern belief can be denied in the next breath with equal propriety. But approaching the subject from the standpoint of the writer, I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted.” #flanneryoconnor #stuckinthesouth #christhauntedsouth #freakflag 📷: Nolan Knight

so proud to have my tune “Dope Queen Blues” named as VuHaus‘s Song Of The Day. It’s one of our favorites to perform live and owes so much of its swagger to Victoria Spivey’s classic “Dope Head Blues”. Both songs are about wild woman who ain’t trying to do right.

i used the blues on “silences” to speak back down my lineage to the women who walked the south, who may not have been able to tell their own stories. in this way, communicating with our ancestors, we keep the blues alive. we reclaim the blues as a vessel of black genius. i ended each show on the #dopequeentour with a sample of Billie Holiday’s “Lady Sings the Blues” as a reminder to everyone in the crowd to tell their stories. to sing their blues. 🕷🖤🕷 #silences #reclaimingtheblues #blackgirlmagic 📷: T McDonald Photography

tour day 28! the boys and i are heading back to nashville! that’s a wrap on the first US leg of the Dope Queen Tour //i want to thank each and every one of y’all who came out to our shows//bought a record//bought a tshirt and gave my art a home///i know i don’t post a lot of my life on here//it gives me a lot of anxiety///so it means so much to be able to connect with y’all at our shows///thank you for letting this shy girl shine every night on stage✨✨ europe, we are heading your way next week! whew! 🖤❤️ #adiavictoria #dopequeentour #reclaimingtheblues #silences

‪Happy to announce we are playing Pilgrimage Music Festival this September 21 & 22 in Franklin, TN!‬ ‪Tickets on sale now at pilgrimagefestival.com/tickets #dopequeentour ‬

Check out “Dope Queen Blues” on Spotify’s Modern Eclectic playlist ❤️

tour day 25//seattle, thanks y’all for selling out barboza on a tuesday no less//to everyone who was turned away at the door, we look forward to coming back and accommodating all y’all next time//thank y’all for indulging me on that heart shaped box cover///y’all are the only city id sing that song for///made me feel full of light to see my blues received with so much love this far from home! 🥰😍 salt lake, see y’all TONIGHT at the state room w/ Dick Stusso 📷: Peter Dervin Photography for No Depression