No one would have been more pleased with the Rebel Women’s Voices series than vocalist Barbara Dane.

During her long, eventful journey she held her own with era-defining artists across the musical landscape, from Louis Armstrong and Bob Dylan to Lightnin’ Hopkins and Pete Seeger.

By every measure, the longtime Oakland resident, who died in October 2024 at the age of 97, lived an epic life, combining mastery of blues and traditional jazz with a passion for civil rights and leftist politics. Veteran filmmaker Maureen Gosling shoehorned her myriad adventures into the 2023 documentary “The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane,” which plays Nov. 5 at Grand Lake Theater.

The hometown screening, a benefit for radio station KPFA-FM 94.1, is also the latest edition of Rebel Women’s Voices, a program tha

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