Bonnie Koloc Information

Set in the country of Trashmania, a land of artists and good dogs, the story centers around a woman's attempts to fulfill her vocation a singer while regaling us with stories of her eccentric aunts, also artists, in the Royal Trashmanian Circus. For this musical Bonnie not only wrote music and lyrics for nineteen songs, but designed and built the set (which included her own paintings, prints, and drawings) and created all the costumes. In 2009 Bonnie was honored with a one-woman show, The Visual Voice of Bonnie Koloc at the Elmhurst Art Museum. This marked her twelfth one-woman art show in 18 years. Bonnie has illustrated over a dozen books for Free River Press, published by her husband, former Chicago Tribune columnist Robert Wolf. Free River Press publications are collections of stories documenting life across America by people without literary ambition. Most recently Bonnie created the cover art and twenty linocut decorations for Robert's latest book, Heartland Portrait: Stories From the Rural Midwest. Bonnie's collaboration with her husband has included work for his two books with Oxford University Press: An American Mosaic: Prose and Poetry by Everyday Folk and Jump Start: How to Write From Everyday Life. Bonnie continues to perform and record. Her latest CD "Seems Like Yesterday" (2017) is Bonnie's 15th album. It contains live performances from the 1970s, primarily at the popular Evanston, IL folk club Amazingrace. It is preceded by the studio recording "Rediscovered" (2012) and thirteen other albums including "Timeless" (2004), a double CD of selections from mostly live performances between 1970 and 1995; "A Bestiary" (2005), a CD accompanying the art book described above; "Here To Sing" (2006), a studio recording; and "Beginnings" (2009), a CD of selections from early live recordings by Rich Warren, primarily of performances at the legendary Chicago folk club, the Earl of Old Town. © 2019 All Rights Reserved.