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, W. Yorkshire, England. We first learnt this song as part of a research and development project called This Is 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 br, br,