Outreach and Community Impact.
Music Worcester.
Check out Bonnie’s “conversation” about joining Music Worcester’s Board of Directors with Executive Director Adrien Finlay.
JazzBoston.
Building up the jazz community on JazzBoston’s Board of Directors. Reviving the Jazz scene!
Boston USA.
Collaborative! Serving on the Multicultural Committee of Greater Boston’s Convention and Visitors Bureau. Bringing “Cross-Cultural Boston” to life.
90.5 WICN Public Radio.
The fun begins with great music! You can catch Bonnie hosting Colors of Jazz on Sunday afternoon!
Streaming Live from Worcester to the World! All for you!
Culture Beat 2.0
🚨 Exciting News! 🚨
I’m beyond thrilled to announce that Bonnie will be co-hosting a brand-new weekly program with the incredible Sympli Whitney as we take Culture Beat to the next level! 🎙️✨
Introducing Culture Beat 2.0 on WICN 90.5 FM! This reimagined edition of the show will shine a spotlight on the arts, culture, and music scene across the region, bringing you the best events, performances, and creative happenings.
Join us as we elevate the live experience and celebrate the vibrant cultural landscape every week on WICN Public Radio! Stay tuned for launch details, special guests, and ways to get involved.
📻 This is it with DJ Bonnie Bon and Emcee Whitty Whit! Tune in. Turn up!
JJA Jazz Heroes 2024p
April is Jazz Appreciation Month and Bonnie received the honor of being named JJA Jazz Hero in the Class of 2024. Every year, members of the Jazz Journalists Association vote to celebrate and recognize musicians, industry folk, and people in the community who are impacting jazz.
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2025 COLORS OF JAZZ ALL-STARS ~ Live In Studio50 celebrating HERStory!💜☮️ It’s been my great honor to assemble the band for WICN’s Women’s History Month concert. Women have historically been underrepresented in the art form of Jazz, and we seek to elevate their role as instrumentalists, and band leaders. This year we presented a “dream band” trio to accompany our vocalists. Plus… once again stretching my creative side to design this very cool flyer!
SPRING 2023 HAPPENINGS: Bonnie’s journey into broadcasting was explored by students of Northeastern University’s graduate studies’ project, “RECKONINGS: A local history platform for the community-archivist”. Bonnie is featured among several local Boston artists in the student-driven oral history project focused on documenting “the contemporary Black arts movements and its legacies”.
Bonnie joined forces with visionary writer, Reverend Melony McGant, to co-author GOOD IS POWERFUL BEYOND MEASURE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF HOPE (McGant, 2024). With more than 100 contributors, the book pays tribute to the legacies of Ben Vereen, and Sweet Honey In The Rock co-founders Carol Maillard, and Louise Robinson, on the occasion of the fifty year anniversary of the GRAMMY Award winning a cappella ensemble. This anthology offers an inspirational collection short stories, reflective writing, and poetry that celebrates contemporary Black History!
In the News.
For Black History Month 2025, Bonnie appeared in Worcester’s Sunday Telegram in article entitled “Storied Streets”. Celebrating family life, legacy, and the next generation, she shared stories from her mother’s lived experience growing up in the former Laurel-Clayton neighborhood.
Bonnie presented a multimedia lecture at the historic and beautiful Highfield Hall and Gardens in Falmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, USA. Jazz Talk: “Journey Through Women’s Evolution in Jazz”.
“Wally’s Café: Boston’s Jazz Incubator”~ Oct, 2022
Bonnie spoke about Wally’s Café Jazz Club 2022 re-opening post-Covid and their impact on the legacy of Jazz with Boston University journalist Macie Parker.
Radio Ink 2019
Bonnie appears on Radio Ink’s 2019 List of Future African American Leaders in Radio. Named among distinguished broadcasters, nationwide, and nominated by industry colleagues
Bonnie spoke candidly on news in Canada about “cancel” culture during the 2018 Montreal Jazz Festival.
“Newport Jazz Fest Diplomacy Project” ~ July 2014
Bonnie accompanied high school students when JazzBoston and Boston Public Schools partnered “to bring kids to the 60th Newport Jazz Festival.”
Watch: Bonnie’s Jazz Journey ~ Mini-Documentary
PODCAST: COLORS OF JAZZ TALK
Enjoy this fun archive of artist interviews. All talks produced and edited by Bonnie Johnson. Find out what color was influencing their day!
Colors Of Jazz Blogosphere
Catch short but sweet stories
from Bonnie’s travels!