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.