Ravyn Lenae – Headline North American Tour
After recently announcing that her third studio album, Blue Island, will be released on August 7th via Atlantic Records, Ravyn Lenae unveils the details of her headline North American tour in support of the album. Launching this September, the 22-date run will see the songstress perform her critically acclaimed discography, as well as new offerings from her forthcoming album, at shows in Las Vegas, her hometown of Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York, Toronto, Dallas, Los Angeles, and more. She will be joined by Lexa Gates, Nourished By Time, and Q on select dates. Tickets for the tour will be available starting this Wednesday, June 24th, via artist pre-sale at 10 AM local time. On-sale will begin Friday, June 26th, at 10 AM local time.
The announcement follows her recent offerings “Reputation” featuring Dominic Fike, “Bobby,” and “Handle,” the last of which arrived alongside a stunning new music video that sees Ravyn incorporating choreography into her artistry for the first time.
With live shows in mind, she joined forces with New York-based movement director Akira Uchida to remind listeners how a song can remain personal while also reaching the back row, and how intimacy can still feel expansive. Their collaboration was best illustrated earlier this month, with her debut performances at Primavera Sound in Barcelona and Governor’s Ball in New York City just 48 hours later. The latter of those two performances earned praise from Billboard, which described her choreography as “landing somewhere between Fosse and David Winters,” and likened her stage presence to “the high-wattage Motown energy of prime Diana Ross.”
Blue Island represents a threshold that Ravyn has inhabited both mentally and physically over the past year. Following the success of her hit single “Love Me Not,” which reached No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 10 on the Billboard Global 200, No. 2 on the UK Singles Chart, and charted in Canada, Australia, and beyond, the world was finally catching up. While this newfound success meant a host of new opportunities that she had always dreamed of, it also meant bouts of joy, anxiety, loneliness, and even heartbreak. Paired with ill-informed questions about her Blackness and reignited conversations about whether she belonged in certain music spaces, she looked to her influences (Santigold, Janet Jackson, Tracy Chapman), whose masterful catalogs pushed back against confines placed on how Black women artists should express themselves.
She uses Blue Island to explore the full scope of her identity: the quirks, flirty energy, “teenage angst” that often bleeds well into years outside its allotted window, as well as the quiet, lonely, “off-beat” moments that happen when you are in the midst of a transformation. Sonically, the record widens her world, expanding on her classic sound while also incorporating the sounds of her listening diet, such as Blondie, The Sundays, The Cranberries, Martin Rev, and even the dramatic chorus structures and high vocal tones of Bollywood soundtracks.
2025 was a breakthrough year for Ravyn Lenae, which saw her perform on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The TODAY Show, make her debut performances at Coachella and her hometown of Chicago’s Lollapalooza, a sold-out, two-night, four-show residency at the famed Blue Note Jazz Club, which Billboard heralded as “a dexterous display of musicality and wisdom,” as well as headline North American and UK/EU tour, in addition to the runaway success of “Love Me Not.” Alongside these feats, she joined Sabrina Carpenter and Reneé Rapp on select dates of their arena tours in North America and performed at multiple international festivals.
Upcoming Live Dates
+ = Lexa Gates
^ = Nourished By Time
* = Q
8/13 – Copenhagen, DK @ Syd for Solen
8/14 – Gothenburg, SE @ Way Out West
8/15 – Oslo, NO @ Oya Festival
8/20 – St. Poelten, AT @ Frequency Festival
8/22 – Biddinghuizen, NL @ Lowlands Festival
8/23 – Hasselt, BE @ Pukkelpop Festival
8/25 – Lausanne, CH @ Headline
8/26 – Paris, FR @ Rock en Seine
8/28 – London, UK @ All Points East
8/29 – Lisbon, PT @ Kalorma
8/30 – County Laois, IE @ Electric Picnic
9/15 – Sacramento, CA @ Channel 24 +
9/16 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater +
9/18 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl +
9/19 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Rockwell at The Complex +
9/20 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre +
9/22 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore +
9/25 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed +
9/26 – Detroit, MI @ Masonic Jack White Theatre +
9/29 – Washington, D.C. @ The Anthem +
9/30 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner ^
10/2 – New York, NY @ Kings Theatre ^
10/3 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall ^
10/5 – Toronto, ON @ HISTORY ^
10/8 – Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz *
10/9 – Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern *
10/10 – Nashville, TN @ Marathon Music Works *
10/11 – Memphis, TN @ Satellite Music Hall*
10/13 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues ^
10/14 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s ^
10/16 – Tucson, AZ @ Rialto Theatre ^
10/17 – Phoenix, AZ @ Van Buren ^
10/21 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Greek Theatre ^ +
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