Adia Victoria

Thank you Ann Powers and NPR Music for allowing the Blair House Collective to share our poetic magic with you all ✨ #blackpoetry #blackgirlmagic #blairhousecollective

Headed back home to Nashville today after six months of touring. Thank you to everyone who came out and supported the band on this incredible run. I huge thanks to @aarondessner for co-producing my album “Silences” and for providing me a safe space at his studio to bring this art to life. Thank you Aaron for helping me to push the blues into new and exciting places! ✨✨✨* * * * #adiavictoria #reclaimingtheblues #nashville #dopequeen #singyourblues * * * 📷: @eweatherby

Photo description- a young black woman from Spartanburg, South Carolina [goddamn] claiming her space in the American folk/blues/americana tradition at @newportfolkfest * * * the work i do is made possible by the fearless and unbothered black women who came before me. * * * I’m hoping to make space for the next generation of black southern girls to make their voices heard. We got to sing our blues like Lady Day done told us! * * * #adiavictoria #newportfolkfestival #reclaimingtheblues #unbothered #blackgirlmagic #blues #wemadethis 📷: @mulographynyc

the thing they don’t tell you about being a touring musician is there is no perfect time or place to make art on the road. you continue to press on and perfect and practice when and where you can. the whole damn world becomes your studio. can’t wait to bring the blues to @newportfolkfest tomorrow! 🌿🌿 #tourlife #newportfolkfest #reclaimingtheblues #dopequeen #blackgirlmagic

creeping back out on the west coast opening for Tank and the Bangas this fall. gonna be bringing some serious #blackgothgirl vibes. that’s just how i do. 🖤💀🕷 #greenballoontour #dopequeen #adiavictoria #southerngoth #alternativegirl 📷: Ethan Weatherby

match the 🚗 to the 👠 to the 💄 that’s just how a #dopequeen do! leeds, see y’all tonight at Brudenell Social Club! 💋💋💋 find me on IG and Twitter: @adiavictoria

Hey London! We’re so excited to announce we will be performing at Hyde Park on 12 July, sharing a bill with Misters Bob Dylan and Neil Young. The show is #soldout and we can’t wait to bring these southern goth blues back across the pond! ✨✨ All the dates opening for The National are sold out as well. Due to demand we’ve added a headlining gig in Leeds at Brudenell Social Club on 11 July. Grab tickets at my internet website adiavictoria.com 🇬🇧❤️🇬🇧 📷: Andy Witchger

Excited to make my debut at Garcia's with The New Tarot and @The Commonheart ⚡️ Tickets on sale now at adiavictoria.com

Adia Victoria

nashville, i been out driving my life away on tour but im teaming up with @lightning100 and bringing my blues to y’all this sunday at @3rdandlindsley w/ @the_rapgirl joining. im so excited to bring the show back to the city where i first got started. it’s gonna be some straight up #blackgirlmagic in your face. yeehaw, y’all. 🖤 🖤🖤 #dopequeentour #nashvillesundaynight

So humbled to announce I’ve been named the 2019 recipient of the Holly Prize by the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The Holly Prize, named for Buddy Holly, “recognizes and supports a new 'all-in-one songwriter' — an exceptionally talented and inspired young musician/singer/songwriter whose work exhibits the qualities of Holly’s music: true, great and original.” This is truly an honor and I’m so excited to attend the ceremony next week in NYC where John Prine and Missy Elliott will be inducted into the Hall of Fame! My hands are still shaking. Thank you to everyone who supports my art and thank you to my team who encourages me to keep writing all these creepy, southern blues! 💕✨ 📷: Nolan Knight

So humbled to announce I’ve been named the 2019 recipient of the Holly Prize by Songwriter’s Hall of Fame. The Holly Prize, named for Buddy Holly, “recognizes and supports a new “all-in-one songwriter “— an exceptionally talented and inspired young musician/singer/songwriter whose work exhibits the qualities of Holly’s music: true, great and original.” This is truly an honor and I’m so excited to attend the ceremony next week in NYC where @john_prine and @missymisdemeanorelliott will be inducted into the Hall of Fame! My hands are still shaking. Thank you to everyone who supports my art and thank you to my team who encourages me to keep writing all these creepy, southern blues! 💕✨ 📷: @nolanknight

y’all, we are about to take this little blues show straight out of nashville over to europe this summer. we will be opening for The National for a few shows, two have already SOLD OUT. Due to demand we’ve added two headlining shows one on July 11th in Leeds at Brudenell Social Club and one on July 13th in Haldern at Tonstudio Keusgen. I will be back in Europe this fall opening for Calexico and Iron & Wine as well! Tickets for these shows are going fast. Grab yours at my internet website on the worldwide web at adiavictoria.com ✨✨✨

The #ACLU100 National Tour is in Brooklyn TODAY fighting for social justice! After a full day of incredible speakers, performers, artists, and other activities, the boys and I will take the stage at 8 pm. DUMBO Archway. FREE and open to all. RSVP at ACLU100.org

📣Come join me and the fellas at the final stop of the ACLU National Tour in #NYC. This Friday, May 31. DUMBO Archway Brooklyn. RSVP: ACLU100.org

Boston! We will see all ya'll tomorrow at Boston Calling Music Festival ✨⚡️ https://bostoncalling.com/tickets/

[[photo description]] an unmastered, unbothered dope queen in mobile alabama proudly taking up all the space in front of ashy dead confederate naval officer raphael semmes who was awarded a participation trophy even tho he lost the war because racism is truly the ideology of ashy pressed mediocrity. 😹☠️ y’all lemme roll my ass on to the next town—atlanta, see y’all tonight at @badearl w/ @joshua_asante 😹💅🏽 #mobile #blackgirlmagic #dopequeentour #deadconfederatesociety #staypressed #biggestloser 📷: @reginaalongi

some context here— i have a cat clause on my rider requesting the presence of any available and interested cats come to visit me backstage before shows. most venues think im joking. im not! last night before our show at @gasa_gasa i got to meet an incredible feline named @buttersthegreenroomcat and she lifted my spirits up and away. i think she’s the reason our show slapped so hard last night. and yes that does read ‘NO DICKS’ behind me on the wall. question to dude musicians—what is it about your insecurity of your own relevance in a world that centers you at every turn that compels you to scrawl your genitalia on public spaces. are u that lonely? if a dude musician plays a show without drawing a penis on a wall in the green room did he even really play the show? does he truly exist?? 🧐 #nodicks #catsofinstagram #tourlife #ladymusicianproblems #dopequeentour 📷: @chazen_onthemove

NOLA. We here. See y’all tonight at Gasa Gasa. 8pm #dopequeentour

Lafayette, thank you for last night. Little Rock, we headed y’alls way. We play Stickyz tomorrow night w/ Joshua Asante. 📷: @shellysavoymurdock

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i been wondering about the stories that the rivers hold/ the bones buried by it worth their weight in gold/ nobody tells their stories so they don’t get told/ no they don’t get told/ no they don’t get told. #dopequeentour #scribblinglyrics #tourlife #reclaimingtheblues

shit the blues taught me— each of us exists on a continuum of experiences, whether that be our blood or our larger social family. to be able to locate yourself on this plane is to be able to place yourself. it allows us to tell our stories, and draw bonds between us. early blues folk, some just generation a removed from slavery and the forced severance of familial bonds for profit, understood both the power of this continuum and damage done when it is severed. their art spoke to both the collective and the divorce from it. the reason the blues endures is testament to the ability of these artists to speak to the common human condition of community and isolation. the blues taps into the deepest most inherent folds of our humanity. simply, we are made more whole by the blues #shitthebluestaughtme

lord i got these rambling blues so bad! we keeping this train moving. and im bringing my brother/ poet/ painter/ bluesman Joshua asante back out for a few dates. y’all may have seen him opening for us back on the first leg of the Dope Queen Tour or at the Delta Blue Christmas panel at Third Man Records where we spoke on the legacy and work of the blues. don’t miss him. and im pleased to share that we will be supporting Tank and the Bangas on a few dates next month! ✨✨✨ we keeping the spirit of the blues alive. the blues move. find your city. tell ya mama ‘nem. we pulling up. 🕷🕷 #dopequeentour #tourlife #babyhairswag #blackgothsunite #blackgirlmagic