Blancah Black (AKA Hillary Fielding): plays guitar, electronics, and voice; creates and performs songs. She was a founding member of one of the most unusual Women’s Punk/New wave bands in the 1980’s, The Holy Sisters of the GAGADADA, as well as a member of The Philosophers, BCO, Feathered Edge, The Eddie Gale Ensemble, Ovaryaction, Venus Envy, Female Noise, Dangerous Mother, ololo, blacklava, bleeding fields and presently performing Americana in the duo Rivas & Black.
She has performed in well-known venues in the Bay Area, CA and Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Santa Cruz: UCSC, Cha Cha’s, Studio 80, The Sanctified Monkey, The Verteran’s Hall, Cabrillo College Theatre, and Macy’s Department Store.
Bay Area: Project Artaud, Mabuhay Gardens, Club Foot, Sound of Music, The Women’s Building, The Marsh, The Lab, The Exploratorium, 455, Olive’s, Brainwash, The Chameleon, Paradise Lounge, The Sound Factory, Koncepts Cultural Gallery, Roots Dance Studio, ATA, North Beach Public Library, SJSU, Mills College and The Berkeley Art Museum.
Las Cruces, NM: Valley Pizza, Amaro Winery, Downtown Blues Coffee, Grounded and The Doña Ana Arts Council Gallery.
Recordings:
CD & Digital Album: Love Heat Love by Blancah Black Produced by BSX Records
Digital Single: Eracism by Blancah Black Produced by BSX Records
Digital EP: Trouvé by bleeding fields
CD: Mystic Light by Feathered Edge; folk-jazz combo
CD: Sun Ra Memorial by Gino Robair (Rastascan Recordings)
VIDEO: You Were Ready by bleeding fields
VIDEO: ReD by Blancah Black Digital EP BandCamp https://bleedingfields.bandcamp.com/
Digital CD BandCamp: A Documentary of Women in Experimental Music;
Collaborators:
Maryjean Shaffer, Heidi Ethridge, Big City Orchestra, Tom Djll, Brian Fergus, Todd Barker, Thea Farhadian, Sarah Bernstien, Eddie Gale, Drew Dobbs, Sayaka Yabuki, Amy X, Amanda Chaudhry, Lob Instagon, Craig Latta, Miguel Garcia, Chrissie Caulfield, Sonya Fe, Federico Almarez and Benjy Rivas.
Employment:
25 years experience as a private teacher for vocals, guitar, saxophone,
flute, clarinet, recorder and beginning piano. Private and class music teacher for all ages for over 400 students.
Organizations:
Member of ASCAP. Member of the Northern California Orff Schulwerk Association
Children’s teacher and performing artist. Member of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, Performer with AHIA Center for Spiritual Living in Pasadena, CA and The Center for Spiritual Living in Las Cruces, NM.
For fans of Patti Smith, Wanda Jackson and Laurie Anderson
Contact Information:
(915) 247-6675