The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane: trailer

The Arhoolie Foundation is proud to sponsor the production of the new documentary film “The Nine Lives of Barbara Dane” on the life and music of Barbara Dane. Your donations are essential and will allow filmmakers to continue with editing, sound mix, color correction, music rights and more. Thank you! Filmmakers Maureen Gosling (THIS AIN’T NO MOUSE MUSIC, BURDEN OF DREAMS) and Jed Riffe (ISHI, THE LAST YAHI, THE LONG SHADOW) have joined forces with producer (and daughter of Barbara Dane) Nina Menéndez (TROPICOLA), have begun production on a feature-length documentary, THE NINE LIVES OF BARBARA DANE. THE NINE LIVES OF BARBARA DANE (working title) illuminates the true story of Barbara Dane, a trailblazing woman and an unsung hero of American music: blues, jazz and folk singer, social activist, wife, mother of three, world traveler, feminist, record producer, maverick and general troublemaker. Barbara Dane, a fiercely independe