Bonnie Hayes has toured with Billy Idol and Belinda Carlisle, opened for Huey Lewis & The News, and written chart-topping tunes for Cher, Adam Ant, Bette Midler, Natalie Cole, David Crosby and others, including two hits on Bonnie Raitt’s Grammy Award-winning Album of the Year, “Nick of Time”.  A rock star in her own right, Bonnie Hayes is coming home to teach the art of songwriting at Blue Bear School of Music.

Blue Bear School of Music, San Francisco’s preeminent school for rock, blues, jazz, folk, and pop, today unveils its plans for a momentous 2022, including community expansion, new programming, and staffing updates. Following the nonprofit’s 50th-anniversary, celebrated singer/songwriter, Bonnie Hayes, announces she will return to the school as the Executive Director at Blue Bear’s new East Bay Campus, slated to open in September, 2022.