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The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane (15*) + ScreenTalk with director Maureen Gosling

Doc'n Roll Film Festival 2024

Barbara is holding a bunch of flowers surrounded by other musicians

Barbara Dane: singer, international social justice activist and recording star, wife, mother of three, feminist, record producer, unwavering maverick and general troublemaker on the road at 90. 

A sonic boom, an explosion of music and passion, a celebration of one woman’s ground-breaking artistry and moral leadership. Standing strong with her singular confidence, Dane emanated the people-powered connectivity of folk, the defiance of blues and the elemental cool of jazz while propelling major historic events with boldness and subversion that cut through commercial artifice and earned her a 5” FBI file. 

The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane is an underground history of a singer-agitator whose unbending principles guide her through notoriety, obscurity, and finally, music legend.

2024 USA Maureen Gosling 104 min

Film contains images of racism and explicit language.

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