Bonnie Simmons

Bonnie Simmons is a California based radio personality. Audio director of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, she is also a band manager, currently managing or having managed in the past Cake, Noe Venable and Etienne de Rocher.

Simmons started at KSAN[1] in 1968[2] as the record librarian,[3] became music librarian, music director, on-air DJ, and by 1975,[4] was the program director.[5][6][7][8][9][10][3][11][12][13]

Simmons is executive director of the Bill Graham Memorial Foundation.[5]

Simmons spent several years working as a sandwich-maker at Ozzie’s Soda Fountain in Berkeley.[14][15]

Simmons runs the transport department for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass.[16][5]

Simmons volunteers for The Bonnie Simmons Show at 8:00 PM Pacific Time on Thursdays on KPFA.[17][18]

Simmons was inducted into the Rock Radio Hall of Fame in the "Legends of Rock Radio-Programming" category for her work at KSAN in 2014.

References
  1. "Running the Record Plant, Part 1: The Early Years". kqed.org. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  2. "News -- St. Petersburg, FL". St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce - Saint Petersburg, FL. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  3. "KSAN Photo Gallery". ksanjive95themovie.com. 23 September 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  4. Inc, Nielsen Business Media (9 August 1975). "Billboard". Nielsen Business Media, Inc. Retrieved 27 October 2018 – via Google Books.
  5. "For DJ Bonnie Simmons, the music never gets old". sfgate.com. 11 March 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  6. "KSAN FM – Bay Area Radio Museum". bayarearadio.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  7. "Meet the Radio Hall of Fame's class of 2010". sfgate.com. 19 September 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  8. "KSAN Reunion Attendees Try To Remember – Bay Area Radio Museum". bayarearadio.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  9. California Historical Radio Society, CHRS (18 June 2014). "KSAN LEGENDS LUNCHEON June 5 2014". Retrieved 27 October 2018 – via YouTube.
  10. "The BARD Interview: Terry McGovern (1990) – Bay Area Radio Museum". bayarearadio.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  11. "Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California on December 27, 1975 · Page 31". newspapers.com. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  12. Halper, Donna L. (15 February 2014). "Invisible Stars: A Social History of Women in American Broadcasting". M.E. Sharpe. Retrieved 27 October 2018 – via Google Books.
  13. "Course detail — KSAN, a Rock & Roll History – Lehrhaus Judaica". catalog.lehrhaus.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  14. "The Bonnie Simmons Show – KPFA". kpfa.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  15. "Ozzie's Soda Fountain". berkeleyside.com. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  16. "Transportation". Mercenary Productions. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  17. "The Bonnie Simmons Show – KPFA". kpfa.org. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
  18. "Radio Survivor's top radio shows - Matthew's #1: Bonnie Simmons and Derk Richardson on KPFA - Radio Survivor". radiosurvivor.com. 29 January 2010. Retrieved 27 October 2018.
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