Barbara Golden

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Barbara Golden, who wrote her first song when she was 40, is an artist living in the San Francisco Bay Area and Nova Scotia. Born in Montréal, the escaped housewife-schoolteacher studied at Mills College in Oakland with Terry Riley, Bob Ashley, and Lou Harrison. Since 1985 she’s done politically incorrect performance raunch ( WIGband, Golden Path), Balinese music (Gamelan Sekar Jaya), and radio (producer and host of Crack o’ Dawn, Pacifica’s KPFA Berkeley).