Memory eternal to singer Barbara Dane, who passed away Sunday at 97. She will be portrayed by songstress Sarah King in the upcoming A COMPLETE UNKNOWN. Dane's career stretched back to the 1950s & she was married to SING OUT! co-founder Irwin Silber. https://t.co/jQXn2VW2FG
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@jacobin Barbara live improvisatory recording with Lightning Hopkins was made in 1964 partially released on our Hooley Records as the B-side of an LP And then released as a CD in 1996 with several additional tracks from that session plus several tracks of folk tunes.
@artistsagainst_ She was hounded by the FBI from the time she was a teenager, was blacklisted due to her refusal to keep silent on her views against racism, imperialism and social justice and yet she never sold out and carved out her own path as singer/avtivist/mother and more.
@artistsagainst_ Although Barbara visited Cuba frequently where she often performed, she did not ever live in Cuba and certainly did not spend most of her life there.
@SausageAnchor Not “assisted suicide” she used Californian’s End of Life Option to avail herself of “Medical Aid in Dying” after suffering from increasing shortness of breath due to heart failure over several years.