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BONNIE KOLOC
e enduring and versatile voice of Bonnie Ko-
loc has been heard in Chicago since
. She
was a pivotal act at the Earl of Old Town for a
decade, and as her folk-oriented style merged
with jazz and blues, she began playing ven-
ues like Mr. Kelly’s. While remaining a xture
at the Earl, Orphans, and Holstein’s, she began
appearing at festivals. Along the way, Koloc re-
ceived a Governor’s Award in
and record-
ed albums, including two on the Epic label.
In
, she reached a new audience when she
starred in the Public
eater’s production of
e Human Comedy
, earning the eatre World
Bronze Award for Outstanding New Talent on
Broadway and a Drama Critics Award nomina-
tion for Best Actress in a Musical. Koloc began
sharing her passion for arts outside of perform-
ing—printmaking, painting, and ceramics—in
, and she has held one-woman exhibitions
in Chicago, Nashville, and other points in the
South and Midwest for more than a decade. She
was also featured in the
National Exhibi-
tion of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society.
In
Koloc merged her artistic talents with
a collection of linocuts, poetry, and music en-
titled
A Bestiary
, depicting farm animals in
each of the three media. e work won Best in
Show at the Iowa State Fair that year, and has
since entered the collections of the Iowa Arts
Council and Chicago Public Library.
e Col-
lege of DuPage commissioned a one-woman
musical from Koloc in
; she wrote the mu-
sic for its songs with Howard Levy, as well as
the lyrics, and also designed the set and creat-
ed the costumes. She most recently created the
one-woman show
e Visual Voice of Bonnie Ko-
loc
in
for the Elmhurst Art Museum, her
th such show in years. Her latest CD,
Seems
Like Yesterday
(
), features live performances
from the
s, primarily recorded at the Evan-
ston, IL, folk club Amazingrace. Bonnie Koloc
rst played Ravinia in
and tonight makes
her seventh appearance at the festival.
6:00 PM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2018
BENNETT GORDON HALL
RAVINIA’S STEANS MUSIC INSTITUTE
PROGRAM FOR SINGERS
e participants’ biographies can be found in the RSMI program book distributed at this concert,
and the evening’s complete repertoire in the included program insert.
7:30 PM WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 2018
MARTIN THEATRE
HOWARD LEVY
CHRIS SIEBOLD,
acoustic resonator and lap steel
LARRY KOHUT,
double bass
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BONNIE KOLOC
DON STILLE,
piano and accordion
STEVE EISEN,
saxophone and flute
ELLIOTT DELMAN,
acoustic guitar and vocals
AL EHRICH,
double bass
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