Arts & Events
Press Release: An Evening with Living Legend Barbara Dane & Producer Ian Ruskin
Barbara Dane: folk singer, blues singer, jazz singer, social activist, wife, mother, world traveler, feminist, record producer, chronic truant, maverick and general troublemaker. She sang with all the greats, from Pete Seeger to Lightning Hopkins to the Chambers Brothers to Louis Armstrong and more, and travelled the world as an independent woman and musician. The radio documentary A Wild Woman Sings the Blues takes the listener on a journey through this amazing life, from a childhood in Detroit to an eighty-fifth birthday concert at Freight & Salvage in Berkeley. Join us to pay tribute to the legendary Barbara Dane!
La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave Berkeley, CA 94705
Sunday, September 14 @ 8:00 pm $12 Adv, $15 Door
This event, celebrating the release of the 2014 radio documentary A Wild Woman Sings the Blues, will feature a couple of songs by Barbara, about 30 minutes of excerpts from the program and a Q&A with Barbara and the producer Ian Ruskin.
