Adia Victoria presenting “Delta Blue Christmas” in Nashville December 6

On December 6 Adia Victoria will present “A Delta Blue Christmas.” The event will take place at Jack White’s Third Man Records in Nashville, TN. It kicks off in the afternoon with a panel discussion on the extended history of black art & the blues as protest and its place in activism. The evening will consist of a performance-based poetry reading with Adia, Caroline Randall Williams and Ciona Rouse, followed by two performances by Adia Victoria – a set of solo acoustic blues numbers, followed by a full-band set of new material. Tickets for both the afternoon and evening events can b purchased HERE. A portion of the proceeds from the show will benefit Jessi Zazu, Inc.

Panelists:
Jamey Hatley (Moderator) – Hatley is a 2016 Prose Fellow for the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award Winner. She is a Co-Founder of The Center for Southern Literary Arts.

Joshua Asante – Joshua is an interdisciplinary artist and a guitarist and vocalist for two bands, releasing three albums to date. His photographic works have found homes in print, museums and private collections.

Ann Powers – Ann is NPR Music’s critic and correspondent. One of the nation’s most notable music critics, Powers has been writing for NPR’s “The Record” since April 2011.

Langston Wilkins – Wilkins is a folklorist, ethnomusicologist, and writer living in Nashville.

Caroline Randall Williams – Caroline is an award wining multi-genre writer, educator, and amateur restaurateur in Nashville.

Adia Victoria – Adia is a Nashville based musician and poet whose second album Silences will be released in February, 2019.

Poets:
Ciona Rouse
Caroline Randall Williams
Adia Victoria

Of “A Delta Blue Christmas” Adia notes, “the holidays in Nashville are that one time of year when time slows down to a halt. Musicians head home from the road and slowly fall back into the pace of home life. For me, the blues and writing were the remedy to offset the fresh-home-from-tour blues. My art rooted me back into myself. So this holiday season I wanted to expand on my tradition of homemaking and the scholarship of the blues and turn it into a community event. There will be a discussion between a few of my favorite minds as we unpack and unravel fact from fabulous myth in the blues, consider its formidable impact and also its implications on the future. How does the blues move?

Certainly, one of its mainlines runs right through poetry. The newly formed Blair House collective will present a poetic representation of a Jim Crow era delta woman who conspires to sing and survive, with her humanity intact, in the deep south. Following, I will perform a few of my favorite delta blues cuts and finally we will welcome new full band as we perform songs from my upcoming album ‘Silences’, which is indebted to the blues and at the same time seeks to move this vital art form into the 21st century in all it’s radical blackness. Join us in the Blue Room at Third Man Records as we pay our respects to the road laid for us, while we look forward to a new year rooted in the spirit of the Delta blues.”