Adia Victoria

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

BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn Festival

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

serious #blackgirlmagic coming yalls way—im so happy to announce that my sisters in poetry @caroranwill and @cionar will be joining me for two shows next month. this will be our first time reading as @blairhousecollective since we made our debut last December in the 🔹Blue Room🔹 at @thirdmanrecords we will be bringing some serious southern/ goth/ blues poetic magic to the stage. ✨✨✨ catch us in Little Rock on 5/3 at @stickyzlr and 5/4 in Oxford, MS at @proudlarrys before the fellas and i burn down the stage. ⚡️⚡️ tickets: adiavictoria.com #blairhousecollective #dopequeentour #blackgirlmagic #nashville #witchvibes #southernpoets 📷: @alikominsky

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_