English Folk Singer | Damien Barber | The Dying Californian | Folk Song | Contemporary Dance

The Dying Californian is a traditional American ’Sacred Harp’ song although many people perform it in the folk song tradition too. If you enjoyed this video please leave a COMMENT & SUBSCRIBE to our You Tube channel Damien Barber is the Artistic Director of Breaking Tradition & The Demon Barbers. He has been at the forefront of the Traditional English Folk revival since the early 1990s. The lyrics of this song are based on a letter which told of a New Englander’s death at sea while on the way to California. The location of this video is The Bridestones, Todmorden, , England. We first learnt this song as part of a research and development project called ’This Is DIB’... “A New Age Traveller who got lost in addiction. A pacifist on trial for murder. A father, brother and son“ In the Research & Development project ‘This is DIB’, Breaking Tradition Dance Company and members of the BBC award winning Demon Barbers took a