Joy Oladokun brings her soulful blend of folk, Americana and deeply personal songwriting to the historic Ryman Auditorium.
Joy Oladokun plays the Ryman Auditorium on Thursday, November 19, as part of The Heavy Things Tour. It's a Nashville stop on a run that also hits Austin, Los Angeles, Seattle, Denver, Salt Lake City, Chicago, Brooklyn and Washington D.C.
She'll be touring her new album, Observations From a Crowded Room, which comes out October 18. It's a 15-track record she wrote and produced herself, and it marks a shift in sound: she's blending her pop-folk roots with electronic and psychedelic elements. That new material will sit alongside songs from her previous two albums, 2021's in defense of my own happiness and 2023's Proof of Life.
Oladokun has been working her way into the Nashville scene since her 2020 breakthrough, and Rolling Stone once called her "Nashville's most low-key musical revolutionary." She's a queer Black woman and the daughter of Nigerian immigrants, and her songwriting has taken her to the White House and onto The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live! and Austin City Limits. Her song "i see america" was a finalist for the Recording Academy's Special Merit Award for Best Song for Social Change. She's also collaborated with Chris Stapleton, Brandi Carlile, Maren Morris, Jason Isbell and Noah Kahan.
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On stage, she brings a soulful blend of folk, Americana and deeply personal songwriting. The show starts at 7:30 PM.
