Bonnie Grice
For
over 20 years, Bonnie Grice has programmed some
of the most listened-to music on public radio.
Her wealth of radio experience,
producing/hosting and interviewing, add up to a
standard of professionalism that she has spent a
lifetime developing.
She hosted her first live talk
show at WMUB in Oxford, Ohio, while pursuing a
Master's Degree in Mass Communication at Miami
University. She was the fine arts editor and
daily music host at WKSU in Kent and then the
morning drive host and producer/host of a weekly
arts magazine for KUSC in Los Angeles. Bonnie's
tenure as producer/announcer in public radio
includes other NPR affiliates such as WNYC in
New York and WGBH in Boston, plus a variety of
commercial stations including KKGO in Los
Angeles and its sister station in San Francisco.
Currently, she freelances as host/producer for
NPR in Washington, DC, and can be heard
coast-to-coast Monday through Friday on the
nationally syndicated jazz network, Jazzworks.
Presently, Bonnie hosts a daily
afternoon jazz program on the WPBX/WCWP Long
Island Public Radio Network, as well as two
other specialty shows. The Song Is You, which
airs Fridays at 4 p.m., is a music/talk show
where musicians, authors, artists, politicians,
and others are invited to share their favorite
music with WPBX listeners. Through unscripted
conversation, her guests reveal how music has
touched their lives. Bonnie created this concept
ten years ago in Los Angeles. Her roster of
interviewees includes hundreds of artists,
musicians and writers, such as Pat Metheny, Arlo
Guthrie, Andre Previn, Victor Borge, Ray
Bradbury, Roger Rosenblatt, Phillip Glass and
k.d. lang, to name a few.
The Eclectic Cafe, which airs on
Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., is a mix of
jazz, pop, rhythm and blues, soul, world and
Latin music, blended with intelligent and
entertaining commentary for what is becoming a
favorite show for our listening audience.
Bonnie leads a busy life outside
of radio. She is a librettist and author. In
July 1993, the two-act chamber opera, Mrs.
Dalloway, for which Bonnie wrote the libretto
based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, had its
critically-acclaimed world premiere by Lyric
Opera Cleveland (music by Libby Larsen). And in
the fall of 1994, Bonnie wrote the book From Z
to A - A Classical Lover's Alternative, a
unique, somewhat quirky, yet inclusive guide to
the great composers, from Zappa to John Adams.
Bonnie is also a flutist and an aspiring singer.
She's spent some time in the theatre as both
actor and producer. Plus, she's an avid fan of
football and fast cars.
