{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fc72952c3-df8f-4f2b-a5d7-fc457f16a1ee","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"<iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" title=\"Episode 060\u2013Stolie, Butterflies and Tequila Lips with Bruce Hilliard\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"clipboard-write\" seamless src=\"http://player.captivate.fm/episode/c72952c3-df8f-4f2b-a5d7-fc457f16a1ee\"></iframe>","title":"Episode 060\u2013Stolie, Butterflies and Tequila Lips with Bruce Hilliard","description":"Stolie's world of music began when she was six and started piano lessons.\u00a0At sixteen, she learned two chords on the guitar and wrote an original song.\u00a0The Coffee Mug, her first collection of original music featuring 10 songs on guitar and vocals, was self-released on cassette in 1996.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nWhile\u00a0attending\u00a0Illinois\u00a0Wesleyan\u00a0University\u00a0(Bloomington, IL) initially as a Music Education major and constantly playing on campus, Stolie switched her major to English to work on writing (songwriting, that is!)\u00a0 Shortly after, during a study-abroad program in London, England, she was performing for loose change in the Tube and soon after, for real money at folk clubs. Upon returning to Chicago, Stolie joined an urban studies program with the\u00a0Chicago Arts Program\u00a0and, while living on Rush Street and taking classes in Wrigleyville, she got to work on her second collection of original music, the self-titled\u00a0Stolie, released in 2000. An electro-pop album (Satire-Laden Melodies) followed in 2004 and a self-produced, arranged and recorded collection of pop/rock songs in 2008 (Between the Fake and Real) was featured on Chicago\u2019s Finest Rock station,\u00a0WXRT.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nStolie has toured the country in support of her original music and with former all-girl trio,\u00a0Tres Femmes, worked as a publicist and radio promoter for\u00a0Bloodshot Records\u00a0and\u00a0Call Girl PR, has rocked cover tunes in several acoustic duos --\u00a0The Acoustic Sideshow\u00a0with Scott Schaefer, with\u00a0Gina Gonzalez\u00a0(Lt. Dan Band\u00a0with Gary Sinise), and with improv comedian Cat McDonnell -- and teaches guitar and piano lessons. Stolie was host to a weekly Thursday night acoustic open mic at the famous\u00a0Murphy\u2019s Bleachers\u00a0bar in Wrigleyville for 8 years and also provides musical accompaniment for wedding ceremonies and cocktail hours for local music production company,\u00a0Cage & Aquarium Productions. Nowadays, Stolie mostly plays children's shows as\u00a0Super Stolie\u00a0for birthday parties, park districts, libraries and street festivals and also with her children\u2019s rock band, Super Stolie and The Rockstars.\u00a0 She released her first children\u2019s CD,\u00a0When I Grow Up, in 2009, her 2nd,\u00a0Press Play!, in the winter 2012 and welcomed her third kids' CD,\u00a0Family in Harmony,\u00a0during the summer of 2015.<br />\r\n<br />\r\nStolie's Homepage","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/2b9f5e98-53e2-4dff-a990-0f977a308696/logo_squish_full_3000.png"}