Tracy Bonham is a twice GRAMMY™ nominated singer-songwriter who was trained as a classical violinist and pianist from age 7. Bonham gave up her full scholarship for violin performance at USC, and the classical handcuffs that bound her, to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston. After singing jingles and performing as a wedding singer in the greater Boston area, Bonham rose to fame in 1996 with her unique style of quirky songwriting and unrefined guitar playing.
Her debut album, The Burdens of Being Upright (Island Records), recorded with Paul Q Kolderie and Sean Slade at Fort Apache Studios in Cambridge achieved Gold status in the US, Australia, and Canada and cast Bonham into the global spotlight with buzz-clip status on MTV and heavy rotation radio airplay with her #1 alternative chart-topping song “Mother Mother”— an anthem for disgruntled teenagers of all ages.
Tracy has released 8 albums all to critical acclaim with her most recent release, Sky Too Wide (A Woody Hollow), in 2025. Indie Review writes "This album may seem like a reinvention of self for Bonham, the former angst ridden, abrasive, alternative rock queen. But it’s not. The reflective, inquisitive classical, jazz-like numbers in which Bonham seeks meaning in life and cleverly expresses herself, are who she has always been."
2026 marks the thirtieth anniversary of Burdens of Being Upright and this will no doubt be another banner year for Bonham as she comes full circle to recreate new versions of the songs with strings.
Join Bonham at The Burren for her spring residency that will take you on a journey from her demo tape days, to the scream that was heard around the world, to how she is currently alchemizing her anger into something beautiful.
PopMatters describes "Bonham, from the beginning and increasingly over time, is a riveting, complicated maker of pop music" and Billboard says: "(She) brings a sophisticated quirkiness to the femme alt-pop table unseen for quite some time".
https://www.tracybonham.com/
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